NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



8. Alonsoa acutifolia. R. d- P. — Bentluim iii D. C. Prodr., 



X. 250. 



To this seems referable a half-shrubby Greenhouse plant, of 

 which seeds from Bolivia were preseuted to tbe Society by J. B. 

 Pentland, Esq. It is veiy like the old and well-known A. inci- 

 ssefolia, from which it differs in having the anthers about equal 

 in length to the filaments. The flowers are bright scarlet, and 

 render it a species worth growing. Its stems are from 1£ to 

 2 feet high ; the leaves pale-green, narrowly lanceolate, simply 

 and sharply serrated. The flowers are in long, loose, terminal 

 racemes. 



9. Oncidium Hartwegi. Lindl. in PL Hnrtw. p. 151. 



A plant presented to the Society by Mr. Skinner, under the 

 name of O. micranthum, has proved to belong to this species, 

 found by the collector whose name it bears on rocks near Loxa, 

 in the month of July. 



It is a straggling plant, with the habit of G. altissimum. The 

 pseudobulbs are deeply and ruggedly grooved ; the leaves are 

 about 1^ inch long, broadly lanceolate, and very much shorter 

 than the long, narrow, racemose panicle. The flowers are small, 

 brownish, with some yellow spots, especially at the angles of the 

 lip. Tbe crest of tbe lip bristles with fine stiff white hairs, by 

 which circumstance, among others, it is known from Oncidium 

 deltoideum. 



10. Phacelia kamosissima. Bentluim in Linn. Trans. XVII. 



p. 280. 



The Califoruian seeds purchased of Mr. Carter produced this 

 annual, a rough hardy plant, covered with coarse hairs, and pro- 

 ducing unattractive spikes of dirty white and violet rather ugly 

 flowers. The statement in De Candolle-'s Prodromus that the 



