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NEW PLANTS. 



[RYTHRONIUM GIGANTEUM, Gigantic Dog's-tooth Violet [Bot. Mag., 

 t. -5714). — Liliaceoe. The handsomest of its race hitherto introduced to 

 this country. It is a native of North America. It is a tall herb, the 

 leaves dark green, blotched with dark browu, flowers in a scape of two 

 to four, white with gold yellow centre. 

 j^-jj^grpOLoCHi.'V Ri^GEXs, Gaping -Hoioered Birthwort {Bot. Mag., t. 5700). — 

 Aristolochie®. A magnificent stove climber, from the plains of Santa Cruz, in New 



EBXIHRONIUM GIGANTEUM. 



AB.IST0L0CHIA. BINGEirS. 



Granada, whei-e its roots are esteemed as an antidote for snake bites. It is a tall, 

 slender, perfectly glabrous plant, with orbicular-reniform leaves of a pale green 

 colour, and flowers from seven to ten inches long, pale green, marked and reti- 

 culated with dark black pnrple. The perianth is a ventricose sac, two and a-half 

 inches long, woolly inside ; the tube is divided into two very long lips, one of which 

 terminates in an ovate or reniform blade. 



CocHLiosTEMA Jacoeianum, General JacohVs Cocliliostema {Bot. Mag., t. 

 5705). — Commelynete. A magnificent epiphyte, "combining the foliage of a 

 gigantic Anthurium, with masses of inflorescence which, for size, delicacy, and 

 beauty of tints» cannot well be surpassed." The leaves are three to four feet long, 

 four to six inches broad, deep green, edged with brown. The peduncles are as 

 thick as the finger, white, tinged with pink, bearing an immense panicle of flowers, 

 which are delicately tinted with pink and purple colours. The plant is a native of 

 Ecuador. 



Lycaste Barrixgtokije vae. grandifloka {Bot. Mag., t. 5706). — A fine 

 variety of an old and favourite orchid. 



Begonia ealcieolia, SicMe-leaved Begonia {Bot. Mag., t. 5707). — Bego- 

 niacese. A lovely species, native of Peru. The leaves are falcate-lanceolate, 

 unequally lobed ; the flowers in panicles, of a rosy pink colour. 



Oncidium cucullati'm var. nubigenum, Alpine Oncidium {Bot. Mag., t. 

 5708).^Orchideffi. An extremely pretty orchid, from Ecuador, where it grows at 

 an altitude of 11,000 to 13,000 feet. The leaves are solitary, the racemes simple 

 and raany-floweied 5 the flowers purple, with large white lip. 



