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purple flowers. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch. Flowered at Cliatsworth in July. (Fig. 185 ; 
a, a raceme of the natural size j h, one of the flowers magnified.) 
C. hicoloTi scapo elongate simplici apice tantuin florido, sepalis lateralibus abbreviatis falcatis planis apice rotundatis, 
labelli lobis lateralibus truncatis angulatis intermedio parvo ovato decurvo, calcare crasso brevi scrotiformi saccate, 
appeiidice membranaceA triangulai'i bidentatS. , 
Of the many species of Cleisustom now known there is hardly one worth cultivation ; and this forms no exception to 
the rule. We have not seen the stem or leaves, but the flowers are dirty pink, small, and collected in a short raceme at 
the end of a peduncle eighteen inches long without a branch. Of the sepals the upper is linear, oblong and straight ; 
the lateral are more blunt, falcate, and rounded at the end ; the petals are obovate ; all these parts have a dingy, deep 
purple stain at the base. The lip is shorter than the sepals ; the lateral lobes are erect, truncate and sharply 
angular, the middle one is smaller, ovate and recurved ; the bag is very blunt, double, and more fleshy than the sides ; 
inside, from the back of the bag, rises a triangular, membranous, bifid appendage. The plant was bought for Chatsworth 
at a sale of some of Messrs. Veitch's plants in September the 29th, 1848. 
cocciFERA. /• Hooker. A hardy glaucous Van Diemeu^s Land tree, with 
Eucalyptus 
white flowers. 
Gunn, Esq* 
Myrtleblooms [Myrtaced). 
Eoiiald 
This plant was exhibited in flower at the June meeting of the Society by Messrs. Veitch, under the name of Eucalyptus 
montana. It has lived for many years in the garden against a south wall without being injured, but the plants in the 
open borders dwindled away and died. According to Messrs. Veitch It is perfectly hardy at Exeter, where it already 
forms a fine open spreading tree, twenty feet high, and from fifteen to eighteen feet through. It has grown there for 
eleven years, and when in flower in June looks Hke an apple-tree or pear-tree loaded with blossoms. According to Dr, 
Hoolcer it is a species inhabiting the highest mountains of Van Diemen's Land, where it becomes a bush, or small tree, 
about ten feet high. It is both Nos, 411 and 1076 of Mr. Gunn's collections, and appears to be sometimes glaucous, 
sometimes green. In the garden it has a thick bluish bloom spread over every part. The branches are purplish brown 
and slightly rugged. The leaves oblong, more or less narrow, long-stalked, usually equal-sided, and are most commonly 
extended at the point into a long and slender awn, by which it is readily recognised. The flowers are produced on short 
compressed peduncles in clusters of three to five; the tube of the calyx is pear-shaped, and the lid i-ugged and convex, 
but slightly concave in the centre. The fruit when ripe is nearly hemispherical, with a slightly-raised even border. 
As fai* as can be at present ascertained this may be expected to prove one of the hardiest of the Van Diemen's Island 
trees.— /owmaZ of HorL Soc, vol. vi. 
370. Lysimachia Candida. Idndley, A hardy herhaceous plant with white flowers, belon^inff 
to the order of Primworts. Kaised from the soil contained in a box sent from Giina, 
Tliis is a dwarf, compact, dark-green herbaceous plant, growing about a foot high. 
smooth. The 
