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ANEMONE JAPONICA-JAPAN ANEMONE.

HIS new species of the beautiful tribe of Anemone is a valuable one, and we are indebted to the Horticultural Society for its introduction, along with many other handsome flowers, to this country, their collector in China having forwarded it from Shanghee, the Japanese part of China. Dr. Siebold states it inhabits damp woods on the edges of rivulets, on a mountain called Kifune, near the city of Mako, in Japan. It is a perennial plant, grows freely, and blooms profusely when properly cultivated. It flourishes in the open border during the summer; the flower stems rise from half a yard to two feet high, and when grown in masses is handsome in such situations. We find it to be more valuable grown in pots in the greenhouse, especially so as an autumn and winter-blooming plant; it then forms an object of much beauty, and is very showy. It may be procured at a cheap price, and, being very easy of culture, deserves to be in every collection.

NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS.
AQUILEGIA LEPTOCERAS-SLENDER-HORNED COLUMBINE.

Ranunculacea. Polyandria Trigynia.

"A dwarf herbaceous plant, not growing more than nine inches high, with slender purplish green stems, thinly coated with scattered hairs. The leaflets of the triternate leaves are wedge-shaped, rounded, with about three lobes at the end. Each stem bears one or two flowers, on slender pedicels rather more than two inches long. The flowers are a pale bright violet, with the tips of the sepals greenish, and of the short petals a clear bright straw colour. It is a native of Siberia, beyond the lake Baical, according to Messrs. Fischer and Meyer. It is found to be a hardy perennial, growing best in a mixture of light sandy loam Vol. xv. No. 12.-N.S.

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and a little leaf mould. It is increased [freely by seed sown as soon as ripe. It must be considered a neat and very pretty plant,' well suited for rockwork."-Jour. Hort. Soc. (Figured in Bot. Reg., 64.)

BLETIA GEBINA-JAPANESE BLETIA.

Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria,

A delicate looking terrestrial Orchid, bearing a near connexion to B. hyacinthina; it is thus described in the Horticultural Society's Journal:-" leaves broad, plaited, rising up the stem, from six to eight inches long, or more, and two inches wide, the uppermost acuminate, the lowest obtuse. The flowers are about as large as Bletia hyacinthina, from six to eight in a spike, two inches and a half in diameter, nearly white, with a faint tinge of blush. The lip is a pale delicate violet, obtusely three-lobed, with seven plates upon its surface, of which two at the side are confined to the middle lobe, and the five others are extended to the base, which is a little stained with yellow." We saw it in bloom at Messrs. Loddiges' nursery, Hackney, in the spring, and were informed the plant is sufficiently hardy to be grown in the cold frame or greenhouse.

BROWALLIA JAMESONI-JAMESON'S BROWALLIA.

Scrophulariacea.

This very distinct and handsome shrubby plant was produced in bloom last summer by Messrs. Veitch, at one of the meetings of the Horticultural Society. It grows from two to four feet and upwards in height, and is clothed with soft pubescence. It is furnished with small rough ovate shining leaves, and sub-corymbose cymes of somewhat crowded deep yellow and orange-coloured blossoms, which have a long slender tube, and a roundish, somewhat crimped, expanding limb of an inch or more in diameter. The species is a native of New Granada, Ecuador, and Peru. It appears to have been introduced about 1846.

CROWEA LATIFOLIA-BROAD-LEAVED CROWEA.

Rutacea. Decandria Monogynia.

This delightful greenhouse shrub was introduced to this country from New Holland upwards of twenty years ago, but it has hitherto been much neglected. It grows more robust, and forms a finer object than even the well known C. saligna, and like it blooms freely nearly all the year. The flowers are about an inch across, and of a pretty rosy pink colour. It may be had in some of the London nurseries. (Figured in Bot. Mag.)

DENDROBIUM CRETACEUM-CHALK-WHITE Dendrobe.

Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria.

From their collectors of Moulmein plants, Messrs. J. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, received this distinct species, which bloomed in their nursery in July last. It has a very peculiar appearance when in flower, by the dead chalky-whiteness of its blossoms. It appears also to possess a particular distinction in producing its flowers solitary, and