26 THE FLORIST. 
flowered annual, differing from the old Clarkia pulchella in having the petals. 
broad and entire, instead of being cut into narrow segments; it is conse- 
quently more showy. <A garden variety. Messrs. Carter & Co. 
CLEMATIS VITICELLA v. VENOsSA. Ranunculacee. A hardy, climbing, flowering 
shrub of great beauty. The flowers are nearly four inches in diameter, of a 
rich purple colour ; each petal is veined with crimsou, having a red crimson- 
tipped ray running from the base to the apex. The white styles are tipped 
with purple. Continues in bloom all the summer and until late in autumn. 
Messrs. L. G. Henderson. 
CoRDYLINE 1NDIVIsA. (Gard. Chron. 1869, 868). Liliacee ¢ Asparaginez. 
A fine greenhouse Yucca-like plant, with a stout, erect, undivided stem, 
supporting a head of long leaves, resembling those of Yucca aloifolia in shape, 
but thinner, their colour a golden bronzy green, the mid-rib broad and 
prominent near the base of a tolerable crimson hue, and very conspicuous ; 
inflorescence a dense oblong-panicled spike, the branches curving gracefully 
upwards; flowers small, white, bell-shaped. New Zealand. Messrs. Lee. 
The garden Dracena indivisa is, according to Dr. Hooker, Cordyline australis. 
Datura CHLORANTHA. (Bot. Mag. 5128). Solanacee. A very handsome 
double-flowered Datura, with the habit of D. arborea; leaves ovate, sub-~ 
triangular, sinuately-toothed; flowers showy, double, tubular, yellow, 
sweet-scented. Sent from the Adelaide Botanic Garden to Messrs. Hender- 
son § Co., as “a double yellow Datura, sweet-scented, of a low, spreading 
habit, producing its flowers seven to eight through the twelve months.” 
The plant seems to have been sent by Dr. Wallich to Syon many years ago, 
so that it is probably a native of India. 
DATURA METELOIDES. (Flore des Serres, 1266). A handsome perennial, known 
in gardens as Datura Wrightii; leaves ovate-oblong, nearly entire; flowers 
large, French white, sweet-scented. Mexico and California. 
DENDROMECON RIGIDUM. (Bot. Mag. 5734). Papaveracee. A Poppy with 
woody stem and branches, quite hardy, and a really handsome plant for 
summer flowering; a small shrub; leaves lance-shaped, glaucous ; flowers 
solitary, terminal, two inches across, bright yellow. Introduced from 
California by Messrs. Veitch & Son. 
DIANTHUS SINENSIS v. HEDDEWIGII. (Flore des Serres, 1288, 1296-7 ; Iilust. 
Boug. 33). Caryophyllacee. This name represents a charming new race 
of Indian Pinks, with gigantic flowers of various colours from rich deep 
crimson to pale pink, sometimes striped, blotched, or mottled with white ; 
leaves broad, linear, bluish green ; flowers profuse, from forty to sixty being 
borne by a single plant, large, two and a half to three inches in diameter. 
This new race of Japanese Indian Pinks, remarkable for the large size of 
their flowers, and their richly-varied colours, will be highly ornamental for 
flower garden decoration. The variety called D. sinensis giganteus is not 
sufficiently or permanently distinct. Japan. Introduced by Mr. Hedd ewig, 
of St. Petersburg. 
DIANTHUS SINENSIS v. LACINIATUS (Flore des Serres, 1289). This is evidently 
related to D. Heddewigii ; flowers equally large; the petals narrower, and 
split at the ends into long narrow segments, so that the flowers are more 
fringed. It varies much in colour, and also in producing single and double 
flowers—white, blush, lilac, rose, caimine, purple, violet, and maroon, selfs 
striped or spotted. 
DianTHus VERSCHAFFELTI. (L’Jilust. Hort. 220). A beautiful dwarf hardy 
perennial, of hybrid origin, obtained from a garden variety called Dianthus 
Mauley, crossed with D. arboreus; leaves narrow; flowers single, white, 
with a crimson blotch at the base of the petals, eight or ten of them collected 
into a close globular head. Raised at Cologne by M. Herschbach. 
EXOCHORDA GRANDIFLORA, (Gard. Chron. 1858, 925). Rosacez. The corrected 
naine of the handsome hardy ornamental Chinese shrub known as Spirea 
grandiflora. 
FREMONTIA CALIFORNICA. Sterculiacex, A very distinct and remarkably 
handsome, dwarf, bushy, deciduous shrub, reputed to be hardy ; jeaves lobed, 
resembling small fig leaves ; flowers abundant, on short spurs, large, showy, 
their beauty residing in the golden-coloured calyx, which has a little 
