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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
rosea, Garrya macrophylla, Deutzia staminea, Franciscea au- 
gusta, and the double-flowering variety of Spircea prunifolia, 
were also abundant, together with most other novelties that are 
really worth having. 
At the United Gardeners’ Nursery, Chelsea, we lately no¬ 
ticed a new species of Torenia, with smaller and darker flowers 
than those of T. Asiatica; a new and apparently very distinct 
Achimenes; a Gesneria, with ventricose yellow flowers; and a 
stock of the very pretty Justicia bicolor, having white flowers, 
spotted with crimson. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Bromeliace^e. —Hexandria Monogynia. 
Puya Altensteinii (Link.) var. gigantea. The small state of 
this plant was described in the f Bot. Mag.’ to 4241, under the 
name of Pitcairnia undulatifolia. The present gigantic variety 
attains a height of five feet, with large leaves, and an immense 
spike of yellowish white flowers, clothed throughout its length 
with brilliant crimson bracts. In the spring of the present year, 
it was flowered by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of the 
Exeter Nursery, and from its truly magnificent aspect, no collec¬ 
tion should be without it.— Pot. Mag. 4309. 
Gesneriace^e. —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
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Hypocyrta leucostoma (Hooker). This plant grows about a 
foot high, with an erect, obtusely tetragonal stem, clothed with 
short woolly hairs, the leaves are opposite, oblong, acuminate, 
the nerves united by closely interwoven reticulations, so as to 
give a nettle-like roughness to the surface. The flowers are 
aggregate, on short simple peduncles, about three quarters of an 
inch long, of a tawny orange colour on the tube, and whiter on 
the limb. It was received by Mr. Purdie from New Grenada,— 
Pot. Mag. 4310. 
Achimenes cupreata (Hooker). A new and highly interesting 
species of achimenes remarkable for the dark copper-colour on 
the upper side of its rather large elliptical leaves, (not unlike in 
