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NEW PLANTS. 



HAMERANTHEMUM BEYRICHII, t,ar. varie(jaia{Bot. Mag.,t. 5557).— 

 Acanthacea;. Asleuder herb, native of Brazil ; leaves ovate oblong, full 

 green, variegated with white, 

 the panicle many-flowered ; 



flowers tubular, with an expanding limb, 



white, with faint shades of rosy blush. A 



pretty stove plant, first discovered by 



jBeyrich, and introduced to cultivation by 



Mr. Bull. 



LuisiA Psyche {Bot. Mag., t. 5558).— 



Orchidea3. A curious species of a genus 



which contains but few interesting plants. 



It was discovered in Burmah, by the Eev. 



C. S. Parish, and introduced by Messrs. 



Low and Co. The leaves are thick and 



tapering, six inches long ; flowers two or 



three in succession on a short spike ; sepals 



and petals a pale yellowish green; lip not 



so long as the petals, fleshy, convex, beauti- 

 fully marked with dark violet spots on a 



green ground. It is well named the " But- 

 terfly-flowered Luisia." 



Habeanthus ruLGENS {Hot. Mag., t. 



5563). — Amaryllidea;. Tiiis raagniticent 



plant most nearly resembles S.phycelloides, 



but is in all its parts about twice as large. 



The leaves are glaucescent, ten to twelve 



inches long, linear, recurved, the scape 



eighteen inches high, purple at the base, 



otherwise glaucous green. The flowers four to five inches across, bright scarlet, tube 



yellow externally, the lobes yellow at the 

 base, forming a well-defined, triangular 

 mark. Introduced to cultivation by Messrs. 

 Backhouse, of York. 



Dendrobium DixANTHUM {Bot. Mag., 

 t. 5564).— Orchideise. This beautiful Den- 

 drobe was discovered by the Rev. C. S. 

 Parish, in Moulmein, and sent to Messrs. 

 Low and Co., of Clapton. The leaves are 

 grassy, three or four inches long, falling off 

 before any flowers appear. Racemes two to 

 five-flowered, sepals and petals pale yellow, 

 lip spreading out in front from a broad, 

 blunt-angled claw, of the same colour as 

 the petals, excepting a deep orange tint on 

 the disk. 



HyOPHORBE- VEESCnATTELTI {Vlllust, 



Sort., t. 462). — Phoenicactse. A beautiful 

 palm, native of the Mauritius, introduced 

 by M. Veischaffelt, of Ghent. The habit 

 is symmetrical and imposing, the stem 

 swollen at the base, the fronds arching 

 outwards, elegantly pinnatifid, the pinnaj 

 lanceolate, and a fine dark green colour. 



Htophorbe amakicaulis [L'lllust. 

 Sort, t. 463). — Phoenicactse. Equally 

 beautiful with the foregoing, and diflering 

 in the stem, being less swollen, the fronds 



CHAMEBANTHEMUM BETEICHIl. 



LUISIA PSYCHE. 



more rigid, also divided into long lanceolate pinnai. 



