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Trichocentrum albopurpcreum {Qard. Chron., 1866, p. 219). — Orchidese. 

 A prettv member of a genus wliich contains few attractive species. The flowers 

 are neaVly as large as those of JEpldendrum macrockilum ; the sepals and petals 

 cinnamon-bordered, with yellow outside j lip white, bearing on each side a large 

 purplish-blue blotch. 



Tkichocentrvm cornucopia {Gard. Cliron., 1866, p. 266). — A pretty little 

 epiphyte, from Southern America. It is a " botanical curiosity" of no value to 

 amateurs. The flowers are greenish-white. 



LoMARiA ciLiATA {Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 290). — A distinct and elegant arbo- 

 rescent fern, from New Caledonia. In the swollen decurrent bases of the plnnse it 

 has some resemblance to L. Gihla, but it difi^ers essentially in its less numerous 

 crown of fronds ; it is farther dissimilar in the much less crowded series of pinnae, 

 as well as in their very apparent fringe of spinulose teeth. " The plant may be 

 regarded as one of the most ornamental, and also one of the most distinct-looking 

 and interesting of the genus." 



LoMARiA DURA {Gco'd. C/irou., 1866, p. 290). — A very distinct fern, introduced 

 from the Chatham Islands, some years since. It is related both to L. lanceolata and 

 L. olechnoidcs, but differs from them in its thick leathery texture while fresh, and 

 in the somewhat cartilaginous margin of its fronds. It is a very handsome hardy 

 greenhouse or cold frame plant, producing a spreading head of arching evergreen, 

 dark-green sterile fronds longer than the fertile ones, whicli latter are remarkable 

 for their stout, densely-fruited, very blunt, crowded pinnas and fringed indusia. 

 The plant has, in some cases, obtained the unauthorized name of L. recurva. 



Cattleya AMETHYSTOGLOSSA A'AR. suLPHUREA {Gard. Chvon., 1866, p. 315). 



This fine variety has flowers of as pure a lemon colour as those of C. citrina, and 

 the lip is cream-coloured. 



Oncidium HOLOCHHYSUM {Gard. Chron..) 1866, p. 410).— This pretty orchid 

 has been long since described by Reichenbach ; but having been reintroduced by 

 Messrs. Backhouse, attention is directed to it anew. The racemes are as densely- 

 flowered as those of a Foxbrush Aerides ; the flowers gold yellow. 



Palaver flexuos-a {Gard. Chron.., 1866, p. 435). — Malvacese. A slender 

 annual, eighteen inches high, more or less clothed with stellate hairs. Branches 

 decumbent, lowermost leaves oblong-ovate, uppermost leaves bipinnately divided ; 

 flowers solitary ; corolla an inch in diameter, of a pale mauve colour. 



Dexdrobium pycxostachyum (G^a?Y?. C7iro»., 1866, p. 459). — Orchidere. This 

 pretty little dendrobe comes very near to the D. demidans of Don. It has perma- 

 nent leaf-sheaths, which assume more or less of a purple colour. The flowers are in 

 dense spikes, white, with green lip. '• Very interesting to those who like to, see the 

 elegant forms of smaller orchid flowers, but totally indiff'erent to those who measure 

 the value of orchid flowers by feet and inches." 



Osbeckia rubicunda {Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 562). — Melastomacese. A hand- 

 some shrub, which in appearance resembles a Pleroma. It is clothed with bristly 

 hairs, and has oblong-oval acute leaves. The flowers are terminal, calyx tube cup- 

 shaped, thickly beset with peltate scales, which are deeply divided into a number of 

 linear, radiating pink subdivisions ; corolla two inches across, of five roundish deep 

 purple petals. " The peculiar calycine scales, together with the purple flowers and 

 yellow anthers, give the flowers a very rich appearance." 



Athyrium latifolium {Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 634). — A deciduous fern, intro- 

 duced from Chili by Messrs. Yeitch and Son. "Though having the texture and 

 fructification of Athyrium Filix-foemina, it is abundantly distinct, not only in 

 structure, but in its much smaller size (six to eight inches high), and, on the whole, 

 hears more the aspect of a dense Asplenium lanceolatum than of a Lady Fern." 



LoMARiA Lechleri {Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 634). — A Chilian fern, introduced 

 by Messrs. Veitch. It is allied to Z. hlechnuides, but difi"ers in its erect, not creep- 

 ing or climbing caudex ; in its larger size generally, the sterile fronds being at least 

 a foot long ; and especially in the much taller fronds, which rise considerably above 

 the sterile ones. It is a fine evergreen hardy greenhouse fern. The fronds spread 

 into a head of eighteen or twenty inches diameter, and reach from one foot to eighteen 

 inches in height. 



