74 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
pi J'enai reeu des pieds vivans au mois - Juin 1851, dont quelques uns fleurissent depuis le commencement de 
Février et paraissent devoir durer j jusqu'en Juin 
545. MASDEVALLIA WAGENERIANA. inden. A curious little Orchidaceous Metu from 
Central America. Flower small, dull pale red. Introduced by Mr. Linden. (Fig. 267.) 
M. Wageneriana ; uniflora, folio obovato-oblongo rotundato in petiolum Ser sapi foliis æquali angulato, sepalis 
ovatis in setam longam extensis, 
petalis truncatis 'Sübesrnosis obtusé tridentatis mar- 
gine anteriore in plicam produeto, labello rhombeo 
serrulato apice calloso inflexo 
— Me song the nes لات‎ plants 
of the 
One of + dor M. coccinea, which was sold lately at 
one of Mr. Stevens’ s sales, has large flowers as 
rest of its genus, it is a little alpine thing, requiring 
the treatment of a Stelis | 
546. nidis" GIGANTEA. Hooker. | 
A magnificent aquatic, with blue flowers. 
Native of New Holland. Not introduced. 
uring the e early part of the present year (1852) seeds of an Australian n Nymphzeaceous = were in the hands of 
aed cultivators in this coun try as a new Vo qi. Victoria Fitzroyana, with flowers of a * purplish-blue,"* iem what 
source obtained I have not been able to asce Those which were gne b erem to us by Mr. Carte rier an 
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disposed to think that this is the plant producing the seeds in question, and. that the plant having been MAR to other 
colonists in Australia, the seeds have been by them sent to their friends in this country, under the name of Victoria 
Fitzroyana. Mr. Bidwill is too good a botanist to have done so. Be that as it may, we deem it a matter of duty now 
to lay a figure and description of our magnificent plant beca the publie, and even a coloured d figure ; for so beautifully 
are the specimens dried by our valued friend and c rrespondent, that we think we cannot err much on that مه‎ 
And sure we are that, even should all the seeds above alluded to fail to germinate, or prove to be those of another 
our Nymphæa gigantea will ere long find its way into our tropical tanks, and adorn them with a Water-Lily little 
Nymphza, being 
cultivation, but unfortunately dry and dead, i iat the size of ai n ordinary apricot, and nearly as rini having 
numerous depressions or eyes, like the <“ eyes" of the potato, with a scale at each depression. The leaves of our dried 
specimens are eighteen inches across ss, nearly orbieular, but longer than broad, with a 
ace appeari 
very thick and prominent, radiate from the insertion of the petiole, and form elevated irregular hexagonal reticulations 
all over the under surface, which surface is uid minutely wrinkled. Petiole ge an inch across, terete, full of 
air-cells ; its attachment to the leaf is within, or at a distance fr rem, the base of the fissure, and thus constitutes a 
peltate leaf. Flower twelve inches i in diameter (in a dina state). Calyx of four leaves, or sepals, as long as the petals, 
