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describes the blossoms as of a violet-purple colour, and compares them to 
those of Gloxinia speciosa. Brazil. Messrs. LH. G. Henderson § Son. 
ALSTROMERIA ARGENTO-VITTATA. (L’Jilust. Hort. 192). Amaryllidacee. <A 
fine greenhouse or frame perennial ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, marked with 
a broad white central band ; flowers scarlet, the interior with dark red lines 
on yellow. Brazil. JM. Verschaffelt. 
AMYGDALUS PERSICA v. ROSHFLORA. Drupacee. One of the best varieties of 
the double-flowered Peaches. A charming addition to early-blooming hardy 
shrubs, the leafless branches in spring being gay with large, showy, loosely 
double flowers, of a deep rich rose colour. China. Introduced by Mr. 
Fortune ; flowered by Mr. Glendinning. 
AvUCcUBA HIMALAICA. (Flore des Serres, 1271; L’Illust. Hort. 197). Cornacez. 
A fine, distinct, hardy evergreen shrub, likely to prove ornamental ; leaves 
lance-shaped, shining deep green, with a few distant white-tipped teeth ; 
flowers purplish green, followed by oblong orange-coloured berries. Hima- 
laya. Messrs. EL. G. Henderson & Son. 
BeRBERIS Hooker. (L’Illust. Hort. 207). Berberidacee. A handsome 
dwarf hardy shrub; branches slender; leaves oblong-lanceolate, spiny- 
toothed; flowers large, axillary, pale yellow, umbellate, on nodding peduncles. 
M. Verschaffett. 
BERBERIS JAMESONII. (L’Jilust. Hort. 201). A fine hardy or half-hardy 
shrub; branches elongate ; leaves oval or oval-oblong, undulate, spiny, holly- 
like, in fascicles; flowers numerous, large, yellow, in terminal, pendulous, 
fasciculate panicles. J. Verschaffelt. 
B@uMERIA ARGENTEA. Urticacee. A free-growing cool stove shrub; leaves 
large, elliptic obovate, acuminate, lively green in the centre and along the 
course of the principal veins, marked between with blotches of silvery gray. 
Chiapas. JM. Linden. 
Boss1HZA PAUCIFOLIA. Leguminose. A neat greenhouse evergreen shrub; 
leaves small; flowers profuse, bright orange and crimson. Australia. 
Messrs. H. G. Henderson & Son. 
BRACHYCHITON Bipwitul. (Bot. Mag. 5133). Sterculiacee. A very remark-~ 
able stove shrub, rising from a large tuberous root; leaves cordate, deeply 
three-lobed ; flowers axillary, in dense sessile heads, the showy part con- 
sisting of the palish red, bell-shaped, downy calyx, which is more than an 
inch long. N. E. Australia. Kew. 
CALLICARPA PURPUREA. (Jllust. Boug. 29, fig. 2; L’Illust. Hort. 202). 
Verbenaceze. A pretty greenhouse shrub ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate ; cymes 
axillary; the numerous small pinkish flowers succeeded by reddish-purple 
berries, which give the plant an ornamental character in the winter months. 
China. Mr. Standish. 
CALLIRHOE DIGITATA. Malvacee. A fine border biennial, much branched, and 
flowering early, as well as through the summer; flowers rich rosy purple, 
with a white eye. Texas. Messrs. Carter.» 
Cxanoruus Vuttcuianus. (Bot. Mag. 5127). Rhamnacee. A magnificent 
acquisition to hardy evergreen shrubs; leaves obovate-cuneate, smooth, deep 
green, with glandular serratures ; flowers in roundish-oblong heads, forming 
crowded masses at the ends of the branches, deep rich mazarine blue. 
California. Messrs. Veitch. 
CENTRADENIA GRANDIFOLIA. (Hort. Lind. 4). Melastomacez. A pretty sub- 
shrubby stove plant; stems angular-winged; leaves opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, laterally curved, purple beneath, one in each pair 
being six inches or more in length, the other minute; flowers lively rose 
colour, in terminal corymbs. Mexico. Jf. Linden. 
CHAM@TIA FOLIOLOSA. (Gard. Chron. 1859, 652). Rosacee. A pretty hardy 
evergreen shrub, with foliage like a Mimosa. The plant grows two to three 
feet high, branched, compact, and erect ; leaves broadly ovate in outline, 
fern-like, tripinnately dissected; leaflets numerous, small, oval, hispidulous ; 
flowers white, Rubus-like. The foliage is exceedingly elegant, and has, 
when rubbed, a strong, resinous, Cistus-like odour. It will prove an acquisi- 
tion among dwarf hardy evergreens. California. Messrs. Veitch § Son. 
CLARKIA PULCHELLA v. INTEGRIPETALA. Onogracee. A handsome purple- 
