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botanical Wendlands. " The erect fimbriate membrane surround inor the anther re- 

 minds one of an old-fashioned, stiif, erect lady's collar." The flower is yellowish 

 ■white, the lip deeper yellow. 



Aquilegia c^rulea. — Eanunculacesc. 

 This is a slender-habited herbaceous plant, 

 native of the Rocky Mountains. The 

 flowers are remarkable for the extreme 

 length of their slender spurs and their re- 

 versed position, which causes the spurs to 

 have a perpendicular position, instead of 

 horizontal, as in other species ; also for their 

 exquisite colourinj];, principally white and 

 violet, wliich is so pure and delicate, that the 

 flower has been described as one of the most 

 " spiritual" ever seen. There is no family 

 which would so certainly repay an amateur 

 for the trouble of collectmo; all the species as 

 the columbines ; tiiey are all beautiful, and 

 a certain few are scarcely to be matched 

 amongst herbaceous plants. 



DiANELi.A Tasmanica {Bot. Mag., t. 

 5551). — Liliacece. This is a fine greenhouse 

 shrub, from Tasmania, of wliich the great 

 beauty consists of its bright blue beriies, 

 which hang for many weeks on the liair- 

 like pedicels, and form a conspicuous orna- 

 ment in a conservatory. It was raised 

 from seeds sent to Kew by William Archer, 

 Esq., F L.S. 



Rhododendron IIodgsoni {Bot. Mag., 



TEICHOPILIA TURIALV^. 



t. 5552).— Ericaceae. One of the noblest of 

 the grand series of rhododendrons that 

 adorn the Eastern Himalaya mountains, 

 discovered by Griffith, in BLotan, in 1838, 

 and gatliered by Dr. A. J. D. Hooker, in 

 alpine valleys of Nepal and Sinkim, at 

 elevations of ten to twelve tiiousand feet. 

 It flowered in the temperate house at Kew, 

 in April last. It forms a large shrub, with 

 oblong leaves eight to eighteen inches long ; 

 they are coriaceous, glossy above, but 

 clothed with ferruginous tomentum be- 

 neath. The flowers are jjroduced in crowded 

 heads ; corolla campanulate, colour pale 

 purple, shadii)g to pink. 



Regoxia baccata [Bot. Mag., t. 5554). 

 — A robust shiubby species, discovered by 

 Mr. Gustav Maun in t;ie Bight of Benin. 

 Tlie leaves are six to ten inches long, 

 broadly orbicular-cordate; flowers two and 

 a-hult inches across, white, or white and 

 pink. Fiuit, a large, nearly spherical berry. 

 EpIUENDKUM MYlilAiNTHUM {Bot. Mag., 

 t. 5556). — Orchidese. A charming spe- 

 cies, discovered years ago by Mr. (Skinner, 

 at a very high elevation on the moun- 

 tains of Guatemala. It has been best known liitherto as a most difficult species 

 to flower, having been very nearly killed out by being subjected to too high 

 a temperature. Having been tried in i cool house at Knypersley, it bloomed freely ; 

 and Mr. Bateman lias no doubt that, with cool treatment, "masses of flowers will 

 be produced." The spike is dense, and consists of myriads of small flowers, of 

 a rich purplish pink or magema colour. 



niANELLA TASMANICA. 



