DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
VACCiNiACEyE. —Decandria Monogynia. 
Thibaudia pidcherrima (Wallich). Rarely have I been more 
surprised and delighted with any plant than with the flowering 
specimen of this Thibaudia (Agapetes , Don), kindly sent from 
the Exeter Nursery by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. Imagine 
a branch, four feet and a half long, divided only at the top in 
from 4-6, rather short, leafy ramuli, the leaves evergreen, 6-8 
inches long; the old, long, and woody portion of the stem 
throwing out on one side (unilateral) numerous crowded clusters 
or drooping sessile umbels of from twelve to twenty blossoms in 
each umbel, and in all states of progress, from the early buds, 
when they, as well as the pedicles, are scarlet, variegated with 
pale, but bright, green, to the finely-expanded corollas, an inch 
long, narrowly campanulate, of an ochraceous red, veined and 
chequered (something like the flower of Fritillaria meleagris) 
with deeper and brighter lines of red. The inner structure ot 
the flower, too, is very curious, the stamens forming a close 
column around the style, and the anther tubes of very great 
length. The plant is a native of the North of India, and Dr. 
Wallich, on my showing him the blossoms and a leaf, recognised 
it as a native of the district of Khasiya, and to which he had 
given the name of Th. pulcherrima —a name it well deserves. 
“ Planted against one of the walls of our Camellia house (which 
in winter is frequently within a degree of the freezing point),” ob¬ 
serve Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, “in a border composed of 
peat, loam, and sand, which, being very well drained, admits of 
copious waterings during the growing or summer season, it thrives 
remarkably well, making vigorous shoots, from three to four feet 
long, in a year. The copious flowers appear on the two years' 
old wood , and first begin to develop themselves at Christmas, 
expanding in April, and they still continue to expand, many at 
a time, in succession.” 
It must, then, be considered a hardy greenhouse plant, and I 
consider the best way to cultivate it is, to plant it out in the 
border of a conservatory, where it will soon become a noble and 
interesting object. — Bot. Mag. 4303. 
