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LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Didynamia Angiosperma—Verbenacese. 
Clerodendrum Splendens. A climbing species of a genus 
already known and admired. The present subject will be 
found a most desirable acquisition to every collection of stove 
plants; received by Mr. Knight, of the King’s Road, Chelsea, 
from Sierra Leone. The plant is a handsome evergreen climber, 
delighting in a shaded situation in the stove, and should be 
placed in rich loamy soil; the flowers are produced abundantly 
on terminal panicles of a rich scarlet; introduced in 1840.— 
Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Pentandria Monogynia—Lobeliaceae. 
Lobelia heterophylla , var. Major. An improvement on the 
pretty L. heterophylla. The entire plant, and more especially 
the flowers, being much larger and more abundant; seeds were 
imported by Mr. Low, of Clapton, from the Swan River Colony, 
in 1840. It requires the usual treatment of half-hardy annuals. 
— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Didynamia Angiosperma—Gesneriacese. 
Achimenes pedunculata. Another beautiful addition to this 
interesting genus; it was found in the shady woods of Santa 
Maria, in Guatemala, by Mr. Hartweg, who sent it to the 
Horticultural Society, in whose gardens it flowered for the first 
time in September, 1841. The flowers are large, numerous, 
and of a peculiar deep scarlet, richly marked with rows of 
crimson spots. The period of flowering is summer and autumn. 
— Bot. Reg. 
Gynandria Monandria—-Orchidacese. 
Eria Polyura. A very pretty and easily cultivated species. 
Requiring the same treatment as Dendrobium, &c. ; sent by 
Mr. Cumming from Manilla to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it 
flowered in 1841.— Bot. Reg. 
