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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



16. Wistaria Sinensis : alba. 

 Mr. Fortune sent this from China. 



According to Siebold the Chinese have many varieties of 

 the "Wistaria (or Glycine) Sinensis. Of these a pure white one 

 has flowered in the Garden. It differs in no other respect from 

 the lilac kind, and is much less handsome ; but when plentiful 

 it may produce a pretty effect by being inarched upon the branches 

 of the latter. 



May 28, 1849. 



17. CcELOGYNE ASPEEATA.* 



Received in flower from T. Twisden Hodges, Esq., May 30, 1849. 



This, which is much the finest of all the Ccelogynes, is a native 

 of Borneo, and flowered in the Garden of Hemsted Park in such 

 profusion that not fewer than 8 spikes were produced at the 

 same time. Each of these spikes is nearly a foot long, and 

 hanging downwards bears 12 or 14 magnificent white flowers, 

 full 3 inches in diameter when spread open. They have a firm 

 fleshy texture, are a pale cream colour, except the lip, which is 

 richly marked with brownish-yellow veins, springing from a 

 rugged bright orange central ridge. At the base of each 

 flower grows a brown concave dry bract l\ inch long, which, by 

 its dead colour, much enlivens and improves the delicate tints of 

 the flowers themselves. 



It is nearly related to the Java C. speciosa, but is a very much 

 more striking species, on account of the whiteness of its noble 

 blossoms. 



May 31, 1849. 



* C. asperata ; racemis pendulis dense multifloris subpubescentibus, brac- 

 ttis subrotundo-ovatis concavis duris siccis, fioribus (maximis) resupinatis, 

 sepalis lanceolatis carinatis, petalis conformibus angustioribus ecarinatis, 

 labelli cucullati lobis lateralibus erectis ovatis obtusis intermedio oblongo 

 obtuso crispo: disco dense verrucoso costis 3 inaequalibus laevibus pone 

 basin. — J. L. 



