LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. — Sauvagesiece. 
Luxemburgia ciliosa, syn. Plectanthera ciliosa. This species 
was first detected by Martius in the Diamond district, province 
of Minas Geraes, and subsequently in the year 1841, by 
Mr. Gardner, in moist peaty soil in open places, growing with 
species of Andromeda on the Organ Mountains at an elevation 
of 5000 feet. It is a truly handsome plant, both in its foliage, 
which is of a lively and glossy green, and in its fine corymb of 
flowers of a pure yellow colour. It requires a moderate stove- 
heat, and flowers during the summer months. — Bot. Mag. 
Didynamia Angiospermia. — Acanthacece. 
Petalidium barlerioides, syn. Ruellia barlerioides, Ruellia 
bracteata. This plant inhabits the mountain regions of India, 
according to Dr. Roxburgh. It was found at Sheikpore and 
Monghyr by Dr. Hamilton, and near Deyre by Dr. Wallich, to 
whom the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are indebted for a 
living plant. It requires a stove-heat, and with that treatment 
blooms readily in a pot during the summer months, when its 
flowers render it ornamental: they are large, between funnel- 
shaped and campanulate ; white with a yellow tinge in the 
throat. The plant forms an upright growing shrub.— Bot. Mag. 
Didynamia Angiospermia.— Gesneracece. 
Achimenes hirsuta. This pretty plant forms another accept¬ 
able addition to the charming genus Achimenes. In habit it 
bears the nearest resemblance to A. pedunculata, and like that 
beautiful thing is disposed to bear little bulbs on the axils of the 
leaves and branches. The history of its introduction is an 
instructive lesson to importers of plants. How often do we find 
gardeners throwing away the moss and mould and fragments 
that remain after every foreign case of plants is examined, and 
the principal part of its contents removed, and how often do 
they thus perhaps reject the most interesting species. This 
Achimenes was hidden among a mass of Orchidaceous plants 
imported from Guatemala, and sold by auction a few months 
ago. Mr. Henderson, of the Pine-Apple Place Nursery acci¬ 
dentally detected it —and thus a plant, which must have been 
often sent home with fruitless care on former occasions, was 
brought to our gardens without any attention whatever. As has 
been already stated, this species has the habit A.pedunculata, 
but is nevertheless a very different species. The leaves are 
