128 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
united by their base to the cylindrical tube of the filaments of the anthers, shorter than the ealyx. pui as long as the 
tube of the anthers, then separating into ten branches, each bearing a capitate stigma,— Bot. Mag., t. 4677 
599. CERASUS LAUROCERASUS; var. Pumilio. 
This is a curious dwarf variety, resembling the common Laurel in much the same way as the Clanbrazil Fir resembles 
a Spruce. The leaves are from two to three m long, and the habit extremely Pg If it does not hereafter run 
away, it will be a useful variety for places where the common Laurel is too large. A plant was received by the Horti- 
cultural Society in 1851, from Lieut-General Monckton, H. om whose brother's gardener, William Reynolds, raised it 
from seed of the common Laurel.— Journ. of Hort, Soc., 
600. HELIOPHILA PILOSA. Lamarck; var. arabidoides Sims. A hardy annual, native of the 
Cape of Good Hope. Flowers bright blue. Belongs to the Cruciferous Order. (Fig. 293 
little grown plant deserves to be reintroduced to eultivation, for its 
flowers are of the most brilliant blue, and although fugitive are so incessantly 
renewed, that the effect of a bed of it is nearly as good as that of a blue Lobelia, 
duces; sometimes, in wild specimens it is almost shaggy ; at other times, in 
cultivation it is so nearly smooth that our artist overlooked the few that continue 
toappear. It grows about eighteen incheshigh and ripens seed plentifully. The 
long narrow pods are uniformly dilated at the end, as if a ttempting to assume the 
necklace form observable in so many species of the genus; and the pair of short 
res is Aa — with a + conspicuous dorsal tooth. Our cut has beer 
im ted many years ago by Mrs. Wray. 
601. PELARGONIUM FOLIOLOSUM. De Candolle. (aliàs Geranium 
pinnatum Andrews.) A tuberous-rooted greenhouse plant with pale 
yellow flowers. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
This was purchased from Mr. Wicks, a collector of Cape plants, May 3rd, 
1852, as a "Yellow Pelargonium. It is one of the fleshy-rooted species, often 
ed Hoareas. It has hairy pinnated leaves, with about seven 
entire leaflets, and an odd one, which is much broader and rounder. The flower- 
stem grows higher than the leaves, and divides into two unequal arms about the 
middle ; of these, one flowers some weeks before the other. The umbels consist 
of six or eight blossoms, with hairy stalks three times as long as the subulate 
b are linear, channelled, recurved, blunt, pale clear buff, the 
two upper standing nearer to each other, and with a deep crimson spot in the 
mi This was obtained for the sake of ‘its yellow flowers, which it is hoped 
may be made to يجو‎ the deem of some of the large-flowered Pelargoniums. 
As the pollen is good, this may happen. It requires a good rich sandy soil, and 
to be treated like the ordinary ‘kinds of Pelargoniums ; but it must be kept rather 
NX dry in winter. As has been stated, its value will be as a breeder ; the flowers 
are too insignificant to render it sad eT otherwise in a gardening point 
of view.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., 
602. SraNHoPEA DBuckPHALUs. Lindley; var. guttata. A beautiful stove epiphyte, with deep 
orange spotted flowers. Blossoms in September. 
This very fine variety has been sent us by Mr. James Napier, gardener at Corehouse near Lanark. We 
unacquainted with its native country. F single spike, the largest number yet remarked 
in any Stanhopea. The lip has the peculiar long narrow hypoebil and short smooth mesochil which so distinctly 
ch; species ; but the sepals, ghe and hypochil are a deep apricot orange-colour ; on the hypochil 
are four deep brown blotches, two outside and two inside ; the sepals have no spots ; on each petal there are four, two at 
, and two above the middle, so that there are in all twelve broad brown stains ; the epichil is brightly speckled, 
but at the base only. 
