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XXX. — 3Iemoranda concerning some new Plants recently in- 

 troduced into gardens otherwise than through the Horticul- 

 tural Society. No. 1. By John Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., 

 Vice-Secretary. 



(Communicated Sept. 12, 1849.) 



[In addition to the plants described in this Journal from tiie 

 Society's Garden, I believe it will be useful to the Fellows of 

 the Society to be made acquainted from time to time with others 

 which appear in the various important private collections of this 

 country and the North of Europe. Such plants are now too 

 frequently thrown into cultivation with names which have been 

 applied upon no known authority, which are often found 

 erroneous, and which consequently require to be changed, to the 

 inconvenience of their possessors. Occasional notices of the 

 following nature will, it is hoped, tend to obviate so serious an 

 evil.] 



1. LisiANTHUS Princeps, 



L. Priticeps ; caule fruticoso tereti ramulis compressis, foliis 

 petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutissimis glabris, floribus soli- 

 tariis pedunculo fiexuoso filiformi pendulis, calyce campanu- 

 lato pentagono lobis brevibus ovatis obtusis, corolla longis- 

 sima ventricosa basi cylindracea laciniis ovatis acutis, 

 staminibus inclusis. 



Native country, ]Vew Grenada. 



Some idea may be formed of the beauty of this plant from the 

 following dimensions of one of its flowers. The cup of the 

 calyx is ^ an inch deep ; the corolla is 5 inches long, and rather 

 more than an inch wide in the thickest part. These flowers 

 hang on long terete stalks singly from the axils of the leaves, 

 which are ovate, acute, deep green, and perfectly smooth. 

 M. Linden, of the Luxembourg Nursery, has raised it from seed, 

 but it has not yet flowered with him. To me it is only known 

 in a dried state, when the colours cannot be ascertained ; but 

 they appear to have been either orange or crimson. It belongs 

 to the section called Calolisianthus, and is undoubtedly one of 

 the finest things in cultivation. 



2. Wailesia picta. 

 Wailesia. Genus ex ordine Orchidacearura, Vandas afRne. 

 Sepala et petala aequalia, patentia ; lateralibus basi subobli- 



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