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cinnamon-coloured down outside; there is no corolla. California. First 
raised by the Horticultural Society. Messrs. E. G. Henderson § Son and 
Messrs. Veitch. ; 
GAZANIA SPLENDENS. (Iilust. Boug. 29, fig. 1). Composite. <A distinct and 
showy bedding plant, useful on account of its rich orange-yellow flowers ; 
leaves spathulate or slightly lobed, white beneath, as in G. uniflora, which 
the plant resembles in general character, only it is dwarfer and more com- 
pact; flowers large, rich orange yellow, with a dark ring around the disk. 
Possibly a mule between G. rigens and G. uniflora, though in its flowering 
more nearly resembling G. pavonia. Messrs. E. G. Henderson. 
HoOWARDIA CARACASENSIS. (Bot. Mag. 5110). Cinchonacee. A lovely stove 
shrub ; leaves ovate, or obovate-elliptic ; flowers cymosely panicled, tubular, 
pale rosy purple, tipped with deeper purple, an inch long, hairy. One of 
the calyx-lobes of the exterior flowers is enlarged into a broad, heart-shaped, 
stalked, rose-coloured leaf, a change of structure similar to that which occurs 
in the well-known stove genus Mussenda. Venezuela. Kew. 
IMANTOPHYLLUM CYRTANTHIFLORUM. Amarallydacee. A magnificent green- 
house perennial, obtained by crossing I. miniatum and I. Aitoni; leaves 
lorate; flowers in large heads, resembling a large-flowered Cyrtanthus, 
rich orange scarlet. Raised byM. Van Houtte. 
Larix GrirFitHit. (Flore des Serres, 1267-8). Coniferze. <A graceful tree, 
inhabiting the mountains of Bhotan and Sikkim; head conical, the 
branches arcuately pendulous, with very long dependent branchlets. Some 
of the plants raised at Kew have stood our winters unharmed. 
Lycunis Haacena. (L’Jilust. Hort. 195). Caryophyllacee. A handsome 
hardy perennial, obtained by c.ossing L. fulgens with L. Sieboldii; flowers 
rich orange scarlet, two inches or more;in diameter, the petals having asingular 
spur-like lateral lobe about halfway down on each side. Raised at Erfurt 
by M. Benary. 
MEYENIA ERECTA v. ALBA. Acanthaceee. A fine neat greenhouse shrub; leaves 
small, ovate, angular-lobed ; flowers large, showy, broadly tubular, with 
an upward curve and spreading limb, white, stained in the throat with 
yellow. A variety of garden origin. Messrs. Parker & Williams. 
Myosoripium noBite. (Bot. Mag. 5137). Boraginacee. This plant is known 
as Cynoglossum nobile and Myosotis nobilis. A lovely, herbaceous, per- 
ennial, half-hardy Forget-me-not ; leaves large, cordate, obtuse, smooth, 
plicately ribbed ; flowers corymbose, deep blue, paler and almost white at 
the margin, nearly half an inch across. The fruits, which consist of broadly- 
winged nuts, or achenia, attached to a quadrangular receptacle, distinguish 
the plant from Cynoglossum. Chatham Islands. Mr. Standish. 
OLEA 1LIcrFoLt1a. Oleacee. An exceedingly ornamental hardy evergreen 
shrub ; leaves flat, oval, Holly-like, serrated; flowers white, sweet-scented. 
Japan. Messrs. Veitch § Son. 
Poros aRGYREA. Orontiacee. A beautiful, dwarf, trailing, variegated stove 
plant, remarkably neat in habit, and almost rivalling the Anectochili in 
beauty; leaves obliquely ovate, acute, green, marked with silvery blotches, 
the blotches on each side the central rib running together into a broad irre- 
gular band. The plant is adapted either for pot or basket culture. Borneo. 
Messrs. Veitch. 
Prunus TRitoBa. (Gard. Chron. 1857, 216, 268). Drupacee. A beautiful, dwarf, 
hardy spring-flowering shrub; the long, slender, leafless branches are in 
spring loaded with compactly semi-double flowers of a delicate pale rose 
colour; leaves later than the flowers, cuneately three-lobed or oblong. 
China. Mr. Glendinning. 
RuyopopenpRon Fortunt. (Gard. Chron. 1859. 868). Ericacee. A very 
remarkable and distinct species, as hardy as R. ponticum, and growing ten 
to twelve feet high ; leaves exactly oblong, flat, six inches long, and nearly 
half as broad, heart-shaped at the base, and cuspidate at the apex, deep 
opaque green above, white beneath; the footstalks strong and purplish. It 
has something the aspect of R. campanulatum, but is wholly distinct. It 
has been introduced from China by Mr. Fortune, and has been raised by 
Mr. Glendinning, but has not yet flowered. Mr. Fortune, who found it on 
