LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
ash-coloured ; the branches are numerous and spreading; the leaves are often 
more than a foot in length, of a strong and firm texture, with a lucid surface, 
and of a beautiful bright green. The flowers are numerous, large, and 
white, with a vast number of stamens of a deep sanguineous purple; they 
are produced from the upper parts of the branches, and blow chiefly in the 
evening, falling off the next morning, and are followed in succession by 
others. It is a plant of easy growth, likes plenty of moist heat, abundance 
of water in the growing season, and a little bottom heat. The plant we 
have now bloomed was four years old last March. It was topped a year ago 
last March, and kept without a drop of water from November till the middle 
of March : it was then started into growth. About the beginning of May 
it had made shoots a foot or more in length; when I turned it out of the 
pot, shook nearly all the soil away, and cut back the roots; then potted it 
into a 12-inch pot, in a mixture of charcoal, loam, sand, and peat; and on 
the 4th of the following month (June) it threw up a fine spike of flowers. 
It is highly fragrant.”— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Leguminos^e. — Decandria Monogynia. 
Oxylobium obovatum. A very pretty species, with dense heads of bright 
orange and red flowers. It was introduced from New Holland about two 
years ago, by Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery. The species seems to be 
almost as good as O. retusum, and much superior to O. capitatum. — Pax. 
Mag. Bot. 
Cactace^e. —Icosandria Monogynia . 
Epiphyllum Russellianum. With somewhat of the habit of E. truncatum, 
this species is perfectly distinct, both in the appearance of the leaves or 
foliaceous branches and also in the colour of the flowers; the former are 
more decidedly chain-like, having the parts between the joints more regular 
and less flattened. The flowers differ in having the violaceous tint not upon 
the crimsony scarlet, as in the other species, but really mixed with the crimson 
in the texture of the flower, so as to produce one uniform colour. Unlike 
E. truncatum , it blossoms at various seasons under the same treatment, and 
is commonly seen in flower from October till May. It was found by Mr. 
Gardner on the Organ Mountains of Brazil, and named after the late Duke 
of Bedford.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Scrophexariace^e. —Diandria Monogynia. 
Veronica spcciosa. With much of the aspect of Lisianthus Russettianus, 
this fine Speedwell constitutes a robust-growing shrub, decidedly evergreen, 
with an abundance of neat leaves, and an extraordinary number, as well as 
succession, of densely-clothed flower-spikes, which are about three inches in 
length, and bear deep -blue blossoms, that fade away to white before they fall. 
It is a particularly clean, healthy, and compact object, not rising, apparently, 
above a foot or a foot and a half in height. Mr. Knight, Nurseryman, of the 
King's Road, Chelsea, received it from Mr. Egerly, who brought it from New 
Zealand in 1841. The flowering plant has been kept in a very cool part of the 
stove, and any kind of pruning has been carefully avoided. It is potted in a 
light, open compost full of fibre, and a moderately large pot. Other younger 
plants are looking perfectly healthy in a cold greenhouse. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
RLtacex. —Polyandria Monogynia. 
Diplolcena Dampieri. A singular rutaceous plant, with flowers collected 
into a capitulum, like the Composites, but which, when examined, exhibit a 
very different structure. These flowers are fully produced in the green¬ 
house in the month of May, and have a very pretty appearance among the 
rather gloomy foliage : the prevailing colours are red and yellow. It is a 
native of Western Australia. — Bot. Mag. 
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