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P . cordata rosea is an indispensable variety. Its pretty flesh- 
coloured flowers, by heightening the tints of the surrounding 
kinds, render a mass of them extremely imposing. 
P. nivalis , white ; P. procumbens, flesh ; and P. reptans , bluish 
purple, are all trailing kinds, suitable for the margins of beds and 
borders, and have a pretty effect among rockwork. The list 
might be extended to a much greater length, but this probably 
will suffice for a beginner. 
T. Sinclair. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Cinchonace;e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Hindsia violacea. This plant differs from the better known II. longijlora, 
chiefly by having much larger, broader, and more downy leaves, the flowers 
much larger and more hairy, and by the calyx, of which one, two, or three 
divisions are much larger than the rest, and more or less dilated and leaf-like 
above the middle. 
Both species vary in the size of the flowers, and in the shade of their 
colour. In the H. longijlora also, and perhaps in H. violacea, the stamens 
are entirely included in the tube of the corolla in some specimens, and in 
others the tips of the anthers protrude. 
This Hindsia violacea is one of the finest things obtained from South 
Brazil. It has been imported by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, and will 
doubtless prove a very easily cultivated greenhouse plant, and is certainly 
unsurpassed in beauty by blue flowering shrubs ; the flowers are produced in 
loose terminal heads, each individual being from two to three inches in 
length, and the limb extending about one-half that distance in diameter, of a 
deep porcelain blue. — Bot. Reg. 
Orchidace^e § Vandeje. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Aerides virens. This is a beautiful addition to that set of Aerides of which 
A. odoratum was the first discovered. Like the flowers of that species, these 
are deliciously and very peculiarly sweet-scented, and not at all inferior in 
size. Each sepal and petal has a deep purple blotch at the end, while the 
remainder is a delicate soft French white. The lip is speckled with crim¬ 
son, and bears in the middle an inflated, sanguine, serrated tongue. 
The leaves are much alike in all these plants; but here they are of a 
peculiarly bright green, which circumstance has suggested the name. It 
was imported from Java in 1843, by Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney. — Bot. 
Reg. 
Amaryllidaceaj. — Hexandria Monogynia. 
Stenomesson Hartwegii. A pretty little bulbous plant found by Mr. Hart- 
weg at the Haciendo del Ixo, on the ascent to Antisana, in the province of 
Quito, at the height of 11,800 feet above the sea. It has gay orange- 
coloured nodding flowers, growing in pairs. It should be grown in a mix¬ 
ture of peat and sandy loam in equal proportions, with the treatment usually 
applied to this class of plants; it will succeed in a warm greenhouse. — Bot. 
Reg. 
