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each division of the corolla an intensely dark crimson spot. It was raised, 
as the trivial name implies, from hybrid seed of Hibiscus Cameroni, a species 
bearing buff-coloured flowers, and H. fulgens, a variety of H. Rosa sinensis. 
We presume it to be a stove shrub. — Rot. Reg. 
Orchidace^e § Malaxed. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Eria bractescens. Mr. Cuming found this at Sincapore, and Mr. Griffith 
in Burma, near Moulmain. It has a fleshy oblong stem, which bears at the 
summit two or three leaves, from one and a half to two inches broad, and 
gradually tapering to the base. Its flowers are, in the Sincapore plant, 
greenish white, with a lip crimson except at the end ; in the Burma plant, 
they are more straw-coloured than green. The lip is three-lobed, has an 
abruptly truncated extremity, and is marked with three elevated ridges, of 
which the two side ones are very short, while the middle one reaches to the 
end of the lip. — Rot. Reg. 
Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Cattleya intermedia variegata. We have often had occasion to notice how 
variable are the species of many genera of orchidaceous plants. It seems to 
be especially the case with those of Cattleya. The present one has the 
elongated pseudo-bulb, the narrow leaves, and the lamellated labellum of C. 
intermedia , but the sepals and petals are much broader (and of a deeper 
colour than usual) ; the middle lobe of the lip is white and the lamellas fed. 
It was sent from Brazil by Mr. Gardner, and flowered in the stove of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in May 1843_ Rot. Mag. 
Rubiace.e § Hedyotideje. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Pentas carnea. Our stoves have lately exhibited a fine-flowering plant 
under the name of Sipanea carnea, introduced by Mr. Makoy of Liege, but 
which, on examination, must be referred to the genus Pentas, a new one, so 
named by Mr. Bentham, from the quinary arrangement of the parts of the 
flower. The plant is about a foot high, scarcely shrubby, branches all her¬ 
baceous, rounded, hairy, so also are the leaves; the flowers are produced in 
large corymbs of a delicate purplish flesh-colour, which when borne upon the 
several branches of one small plant, exhibit a very lively appearance, and 
there is almost a continued succession of them for a great part of the year. 
— Rot. Mag. 
Gesneriace/e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Drimonia punctata. Introduced by the Horticultural Society through 
the medium of their collector, Mr. Hartweg. It is'' cultivated in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew to great advantage, in a wire basket, 
with pieces of wood and turf, and suspended from a beam in a moist stove. 
In such a situation it thrives admirably, and bears its delicate yellowish or 
almost primrose-coloured flowers spotted with purple, copiously. As a 
species it is very different to the D. serrulata. Mart. ( bicolor , Lind.) in the 
shape and marking of the flower, in the short peduncle, and especially in the 
narrow, not cordate, base of the sepals. — Rot. Mag. 
Onagrace^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Fuchsia , Queen Victoria, Smith's, Garden hybrid. This lovely variety 
was raised from seed by Mr. Smith, nurseryman, of Dalston, Middlesex, 
and elicited considerable attention when it was exhibited at the gardens 
of the Royal Botanic Society, in the Regent’s Park, last July. In a 
general way, it is after the style of F. Chandlerii ; but it is a very much 
