al edidizel bna gnol aid abound ideal plany con qily Senad nim ad Joioq aut pairal nam PHARBITIS LIMBATA.

ESSRS. ROLLISON imported this very beautiful species from Java. We saw it in fine bloom in their collection of plants. It is a half-hardy_annual, requiring similar treatment to the common Thunbergias. It is a charming object for the greenhouse in summer, and no doubt it will flourish against a good-aspected wall, trellis, pillar, or verandah during that season: Messrs. Rollison consider it to be quite hardy enough. It grows very freely, blooms profusely, and bears abundance of seed. It merits a place in every likely situation, and from what we have seen of it, we believe it will thrive where the Major Convolvulus will, and with the same treatment, after being turned out into the open ground. The plants should be raised early in the season, in pots, and then be turned out in May, where so required, or, being duly repotted, be kept for ornamenting the greenhouse, &c., in summer. Trained to wire frame-work, of any form, it will be a very interesting object.

TACSONIA MANICATA.

This very superb-flowering plant was introduced into this country by the Horticultural Society. The Society's collector of plants discovered it growing in the hedges near the city of Loxa, in Peru. It grows very freely, and is what is generally termed a climbing plant, and when it has room grows very extensively. The Horticultural Society, with their usual liberality, distributed plants of it. A very fine specimen of it is growing in the conservatory of A. F. Slade, Esq., at Chiselhurst, from whence we received it. This plant blooms most abundantly, and the gardener informed us that nothing equals it in brilliancy and beauty when in full bloom, it being literally loaded with flowers. This fine plant deserves to be in every conservatory and greenhouse, where it flourishes either to cover a trellis, wall, pillar, VOL. XIX. No. 52.-N.S.

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&c., and, with proper management, a suitable wire-work frame. It is considered to be the finest greenhouse climber, and the striking account given us by the excellent gardener at Mr. Slade's is confirmatory of the fact. This species is easily cultivated, requiring plenty of rootroom. A compost of equal parts of turfy-loam and peat soil, with a liberal drainage, suits well. When it grows vigorously, the branches must be trained horizontally in proportion, to check the growth. If the shoots be very numerous, some of them must be cut away. Due care to training neatly will be requisite. Its splendid display most amply repays for every attention. Grown in contrast with the Tacsonia princeps, grandis, mollissima, and pinnatistipula, would produce an interesting sight.

NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS.

DEUTZIA GRACILIS. SLENDER. A native of Japan, growing naturally two yards high, its branches being long and flexible. The leaves are small, oval, tapering to a point. The main branches are covered with small side branches, each having a terminal raceme of graceful white flowers. A-blossom is about half an inch across. This charming species is in the establishment of Mr. Baumann, of Ghent. There is a plant in our own country called D. gracilis, but its true name is Callicarp Murasaki. The true species is only to be had (now) of Mr. Baumann. It deserves to be in every shrubbery.

DOMBEYA VIBURNIFLORA. -It is a native of the Comerin Islands, near Madagascar, where it forms a fine tree. One plant of it is in the stove at Kew, which is five yards high, and has a large bushy head. The leaves are large, heart-shaped, three lobed. The flowers are borne in terminal corymbous heads, five inches across. Each blossom is fivepetalled, an inch across, white. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4568.)

ECHINOPSIS CAMPYLACANTHA (Syn. Cereus leucanthus).-Discovered at the foot of the Andes mountains. Several plants, about a foot high, are in the Cactus stove at the Royal Gardens of Kew. The form is nearly globose. The spines are about three inches long, curving inwards. The flowers are produced at the summit, each about six inches long and three across, of a pale rose colour. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4567.)

FUCHSIAS.-Smith's Seddonii: flower of medium size; tube and sepals rosy-flesh colour, slightly tipped with green; corolla violetpurple. Banks' Voltigeur: tube and sepals red, corolla purple; the sepals curve back much, very like Scarletina reflexa. Banks' Expansion: tube and sepals white, tinged slightly with rose; corolla rosyred; flower stout, medium size, the sepals spreading out horizontally. (Figured in Magazine of Botany.)

MEDINILLA JAVANENSIS.-From Java. A stove shrub, of the Melastomaceæ order. The flowers are borne in short terminal panicles. Each blossom is nearly an inch across, of a pale flesh colour, and the

anthers, of a very dark purple, produce a pretty appearance. (Figured in Magazine of Botany.)

PASSIFLORA PENDULIFLora. DROOPING-BLOSSOMED.-From Jamaica. A plant has bloomed in the Royal Gardens at Kew. The flowers are drooping, of a yellow-green; each blossom about two inches across. It is a stove plant, and blooms freely. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4565.)

PLEIONE LAGENARIA. THE BOTTLE.-A terrestrial Alpine herbaceous plant, a native of northern India. Some of this genus have been incorporated with the Epidendrums. The flower just rises (singly) out of the pseudo-bulb. Each blossom is four inches across. Sepals and petals narrow, two inches long, of a rosy-lilac colour. Lip same colour outside, an inch and a half long and an inch across. The margin of the mouth white, with crimson stripes.

PLEIONE MACULATA, THE SPOTTED.-A terrestrial Alpine herbaceous plant, also a native of northern India. Sepals and petals broad, two long, white. Lip an inch long, and nearly as much across; white ground, with bright crimson-crested stripes at the margin of the mouth. The interior of the tube of both this and the former species is yellow. Very beautiful and interesting. Mr. Lobb found them on the Khasija Mountains, and sent them to Messrs. Veitch. (Figured in Paxton's Flower Garden.)

POLYGONUM BRUNONIS.-A hardy herbaceous plant from Nepal, of the order of Buckwheats.

POLYGONUM VACCINIFOLIUM. THE BILBERRY-LEAVED. Both this and the former belong to the same tribe as our wild Persicaria. The flowers are in spikes, of a rosy-red and brown colour. Adapted for rock-work, being dwarf, and somewhat trailing. In the Chiswick Gardens. (Figured in Paxton's Flower Garden.)

SOBRALIA SESSILIS. This is a terrestrial orchid, from British Guiana. Flower stems half a yard high, reed-like, terminating with a solitary flower. Sepals and petals nearly white; lip, the tube portion a rosy-purple outside, the inside yellow, terminating in white, with a rosy-fringed margin. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4570.)

THIBAUDIA MACRANTHA. LARGE-FLOWERED.-A very beautiful flowering evergreen stove plant, which Messrs. Veitch's collector sent from Kola Mountain, Moulmein, East Indies. It is a rather straggling shrub, with brown bark and pretty lance-shaped leaves. The flowers are produced from the wooDy portion of the stem, two or three arising from the same point; they are drooping. Each flower is nearly two inches long, tube-shaped, and the tube widest at the middle, which at that part is nearly an inch through. The blossom is of a pure chinawhite, yellow at the lower part and at the top rim. The tube is fiveangled, and each angular space is beautifully marked with red lines, generally taking the form of the letter V, and the lines more or less united. The flowers are exceedingly pretty; the texture and marking resemble a handsome piece of china or porcelain. It is a most lovely plant when in bloom, and although Messrs. Veitch have it in the stove,