GLOXINIA TEUCHLERII.

WE that this 'It was exhibited at two of the

TE are informed that this very pretty variety is an hybrid from
G. rubra and G. speciosa.

recent London floral exhibitions, where it was much admired. Occasionally it produces flowers of an entire rosy-red colour, but generally they are beautifully streaked and dotted. It highly merits a place in every hothouse or warm greenhouse.

All the tribe are beautiful and very ornamental, easy of culture, and bloom profusely for many successive months. Each season we are favoured with an addition of kinds, either real species or hybrids, so that now a select collection of superb and most distinct sorts may be obtained at a very reasonable price. We respectfully invite our readers, who have the opportunity, to give attention to raising new varieties by impregnating the best formed and clearest of colours.

Seed sown early in February will produce plants that will bloom the first year, if duly attended to in potting, &c. With little attention an early bloom is obtained, and ample compensation realized for it.

CHIRITA MOONII.

During the present season this very handsome flowering plant has been in bloom in the stove at the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it was highly ornamental. Its large flowers, borne so freely, render it very showy, and deserving a place in every stove or warm greenhouse. We have noticed in one or two collections around London another kind has been obtained for C. Moonii, whose proper name is C. Walkerii. It is much inferior to our present species (now figured), the flowers being about one-third the size of C. Moonii, and not produced in such rofusion.

VOL. XVI. No. 20.-N.S.

FANCY PELARGONIUMS.

HERO OF SURREY.-A seedling of 1848, raised by Mr. Gaines,
of Battersea.

DEFIANCE. Also a seedling of 1848, raised by Mr. Ambrose, of
Battersea.

These very handsome good-shaped flowers were exhibited at the June shows held at Chiswick Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens, and the Surrey Gardens, on which occasions they were unequalled by any others shown in competition, and both varieties merit a place in any collection, however select.

Considerable attention is now directed to the production of new varieties of this beautiful class of Pelargoniums, the growth of which is becoming extensively popular. Some varieties of very defective forms have been sent out but such may be replaced by those of approved shape. Every greenhouse ought to contain a collection of this lovely class. They are of a dwarf habit, and profuse in flower.

We have been very solicitous to obtain correct descriptive lists of all the fancy class varieties which have appeared at the above-named shows, and which are given in our three last Numbers of this Magazine, and to which we respectfully refer our readers as a guide to selection in colours, &c.

NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS.

ACACIA ARGYROPHYLLA-SILVER-LEAVED.

In several of our recent numbers we have noticed numerous species of this most interesting and lovely family of plants, which we had seen in bloom in the fine collection of them in the Royal Gardens of Kew. The present species was sent by Mr. Drummond from the Swan River settlement. It is an erect-growing plant, branching freely, with shortish broad leaves, clothed on both sides with a compact, glossy, silky, and silvery down, the young shoots richly tinged with yellow. It blooms profusely, globe-formed, large, and of a deep yellow. Like all the tribe, they can be so treated as to form neat bushes; and whether so grown, or allowed to form large ornaments for the conservatory, they merit a place wherever they can be introduced, especially where spring and early summer flowers are desired. Both foliage and flowers are handsome. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 4384.)

ACACIA ROTUNDIFOLIA-ROUND-LEAVED.

A native of New Holland, growing in this country about four feet high, and rather of a loose form. The branches are angled, slightly downy. The leaves are very short, nearly round, about half an inch across. The flowers are borne in profusion, globose, of a deep rich yellow. It is very beautiful when in bloom. It bloomed charmingly in the Royal Gardens of Kew the last spring; it is also in the collection of Mr. Low. It ought to form one of the ornaments of every greenhouse. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.)