24 THE FLORIST. 



MEMORANDA FROM KEW. 



Co i i \ H ICHOSTACHY.1. This beautiful South- American Orchid is riot very gene- 

 rallv met with, although it has been long introduced to this country. To grow 

 it successfully it requires a rather shady situation in a moderate temperature; 

 it should be potted in turfy or fibry peat, intermixed with broken potsherds and a 

 little silver-sand, well drained, and kept well supplied with water. Under this 

 treatment it will be found to be well worthy of cultivation. The leaves are about 

 an inch broad and from two to two and a half feet long, of a dark green. From the 

 • :' the pseudo-bulb arises an erect scape near two feet high, with a raceme 

 a foot long, of numerous purplish rose-coloured flowers, which are white inter- 

 nally. 



Oncidium ornithoriiynchum is valuable for autumn and winter flowering. 

 The blossoms are very fragrant, and remain a long time in perfection ; they are 

 pale lilac with a little yellow in the centre. 



Spermadictyon azureum. This hard-wooded free-flowering evergreen, warm, 

 greenhouse, or stove shrub is useful, as it flowers during winter. The blossoms 

 are borne in dense panicles six or eight inches long on the apex of the branches ; 

 they are very fragrant, and of a pale blue. 



Chorozema flavum. This is a very ornamental plant for the greenhouse or 

 conservatory. It grows freely and flowers abundantly. It has pretty yellow 

 flowers. 



Cryptophragma acaulis. This is a very ornamental low-growing evergreen 

 herbaceous plant from the East Indies. It is one of those species whose beauty 

 partly consists in its having two- coloured leaves, which on the upper surface are 

 of a dark green with white nerves, similar to Eranthemum leuconervum. It is a 

 new plant raised from seed imported from Ceylon, and may be cultivated singly 

 in pots, or several plants together in a shallow pan, so as to form a tolerably good 

 tuft. The flowers are very pretty, rather small, tubular, white with an orange 

 limb, and are borne on erect slender racemes about a foot high. It requires the 

 temperature of a moist stove. 



Puya funkiana is a rather showy flowering new evergreen hothouse plant 

 from South America. The leaves are two to three feet long, flower-stalk stout, 

 erect, two feet high, calyx and bracts of a clear shining yellow, petals white, with 

 deep yellow anthers. 



Manettiabicolor. This pretty stove twiner is well adapted for trellis-work, 

 or it may be advantageously grown coiled round a few small stakes and drawn to 

 a point at the top. It flourishes in a moderate moist stove temperature. 



Royal Botanic Gardens^ Kew. J. Houlston. 



