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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Leguminosjs. —Diadelphia Decandria. 
Cliioria fulgens. An elegant twining plant with long, slender, and slightly 
hairy stems, with handsome foliage, having a smooth bright green upper 
surface, and the lower side of a paler hue, closely covered with numerous 
very short soft hairs; from the axils of the leaves the flowers are produced 
in a clustered head, supported on a stiff and wiry peduncle, five or six inches 
long, elevating them sufficiently above the foliage to display, without inter¬ 
ruption, the bright and glowing scarlet blossoms, which promise to be abun¬ 
dantly produced. Seeds of it were received by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
Exeter, in the spring of 1841, from their collector, Mr. W. Lobb, who found 
it on the Organ Mountains of Brazil. A specimen of it was exhibited at 
the Horticultural fete at Chiswick in May last, as a species of Centrosema, 
one of the divisions of the genus CUtoria. It thrives well in a mixture of 
peat, loam and sand, and has hitherto been cultivated in an intermediate 
house. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
LEGUMiNOsm. — Polygamia Moncecia. 
Acacia cultriformis. A very elegant and free-flowering species, closely 
allied to A. dolabriformis and A. scapuliformis, from New Holland — Pax. 
Mag. Bot. 
Trop^eole^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Tropccolum Lobbianum. A very desirable new species of Indian cress, 
which justly bears the name here given to it by one of our most distinguished 
and liberal cultivators, Mr. Veitch, of the Nursery, Exeter. 
It was detected by his collector, Mr. Lobb, in Columbia, and sent home 
in the early part of 1843, and bore its handsome and bright-coloured flowers 
in November of the same year. Trained upon those wire-trellises which are 
now so commonly fixed to garden pots, it makes a charming appearance 
with its delicate leaves and bright flame-coloured flowers. It bears some 
resemblance to a small T. Moritzianum. — Bot. Mag. 
Orchideje. — Gynandria Monanclria. 
Lcdi a peduncular is. A lovely species, sent from Guatemala, by Mr. Skinner, 
to Woburn. 
Pseudo-bulbs ovate compressed, obscurely furrowed near the margin, 
more or less sheathed with large brown scales at the base, and bearing 
a single oblong, obtuse, thick, coriaceous leaf at the extremity. From the 
base of this leaf the peduncle ^arises, a span to nearly a foot high, slender, 
articulated, and sheathed at the articulations, five or six flowered at the top. 
Flowers rather small, delicate, lilac-rose colour, with a deep purple eye 
in the centre of the lip; sepals spreading, equal, lanceolate; petals resembling 
them, but larger and broader; lip standing forward, lilac, about equal in 
length, with the sepals and petals oblong, three-lobed, tapering at the base, 
with the sides there inflected so as to embrace the column. The lateral 
lobes acute, spreading, the middle lobe ovate, oblong, obtuse, even retuse at 
the apex, waved and striated. The disk towards the base is marked with an 
elevated and striated broad line, and the colour is deep purple. Column 
rather short, semi-cylindrical, dark red purple, especially in front. Anther- 
case hemispherical. — Bot. Mag. 
Begoniace^e. — Moncccia Polyandria. 
Begonia Meyerii. Of this fine species of begonia, received from the Berlin 
Garden, I regret I know nothing concerning the history, nor of what country 
it is a native, nor can I find it anywhere described. It is a handsome, tall- 
growing species, with erect, branching, stout and almost woody stems, marked 
with the broad scars from the petioles of fallen leaves. Leaves large, broadly 
and obliquely ovate, rather thick and fleshy, with an auricle on one side, at 
the base pale green, more or less tinged with red, the margin waved and 
subsinuate ; the whole upper and under surface and thickened petioles co¬ 
vered with a short and compact hoary pubescence or woolly substancet 
peduncle very long, axillary, tinged with red, downy, bearing a somewhat 
close many-flowered panicle of large handsome white flowers. — Bot. Mag. 
