SEW PLANTS. 
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With a drawing which was made last year in the Gaiden of 
Plants at Paris, Mr. Paxton has the following remarks on its 
culture: “ In planting it out it should be placed in a dry and 
somewhat open position, and a prepared loamy soil, the latter 
being shallow and well drained. Perhaps it will be advisable 
to cover it partially for the first two or three years, especially if 
the weather should have been unfavorable to the ripening of its 
wood, and it may be afterwards left quite unsheltered. In 
covering it at all, however, provision should be made for giving 
it a great deal of air, and indeed for opening it altogether, on 
those days when no danger from frost exists. Above all things, 
the roots should be kept as dry as practicable in winter, that the 
plant may not begin growing too early in spring. 
Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Icosandria Monogynia — Myrtacea. 
Hypocalymma Robustum. This is one of those beautiful 
little myrtaceous plants peculiar to the south-west coast of New 
Holland, and which may be easily mistaken for small almond or 
peach bushes ; so much are the flowers like them, and so seldom 
do we find bright rosy blossoms among the myrtles. It is a native 
of the Swan River Colony, and has been raised by Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, & Co., of Exeter. It is a greenhouse plant, 
and requires to be potted in a compost consisting of loam and 
heath mould, with a small portion of silver sand. Water should 
be given freely during the summer, and plenty of air at all times, 
except during frost. It may be propagated by cuttings in the 
ordinary way.— Bot. Reg. 
Gynandria Monantdria — Orchidece. 
Catasetum planiceps. A native of the Spanish Main, whence 
it was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered 
in June, 1841. This species resembles C. maculatum, C. tri- 
dentatum, and semiapertum in habit, but differs from the second 
in its serrated lip ; from the first and last in its lip not having 
its edges incurved ; and from all in the singular truncate form 
of this helmet-shaped organ. Cultivation the same as for other 
catasetums , — Bot. Reg. 
