134 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
genus Pleurothallis, and is one of the handsomest of the race which that genus represents." The outer half of the flowers 
is pure white, the inner half more or less red : whence the name. 
613. LILIUM GIGANTEUM. Wallich. (alias L. cordifolium Don.) A magnificent hardy bulbous 
plant from Nepal. Flowers white and fragrant, appearing in July. 
The discovery of this Prince of mosey we owe to Dr. Wallich, who detected it in moist shady places on Sheopore 
from the base of the stem to its apex. The flowers are proportionably lante and delightfully bp. not unlike those 
of the common white Lily.” Nor does it degenerate in cultivation; the flowering plant having attained a height of 
ten to twelve inches long and eight inches broad, must have afforded a striking spectacle. Baron Hügel found 
sa plant in the Peer Punjäl pass of the Himalaya, leading into Kashmeer ; E and we believe that Drs. Thomson and 
Madden says the Zilium Veg tes is common in the damp thick forests of the Himalaya, the provinces of Kamaon, 
Gurwhal, and Busehur, in all of which he has frequently met with it. It grows in rich black mould, the bulb 
close to the surface, at from 7500 = 9000 feet above the level of the sea, where it is covered with snow from November 
to April, or thereabouts. The hollow stems are commonly from six to nine feet high, and are used for musicai pipes. 
ipens in November and December. Stem straight, cylindrical, smooth, gradually attenuated to the apex, 
nearly ten feet high, five and a half inches in circumference at the base, green with a reddish-purple hue at the upper 
Leaves alternate, scattered, the internodes varying in length, petiolate, broadly ovate, cordate, acuminate, 
shining dark green above, paler below, venation reticulated, having an evident midrib, with the veins coming off from 
it ending in an peerage vein ; lower leaves with long petioles, very large, ten to twelve inches long, eight inches 
broad, becoming gradually لط‎ in ascending ; upper leaves small, sessile, ovate, acute.  Petioles of lower leaves 
twelve to fourteen inches long, thick, broad and somewhat sheathing at the base, lower surface convex, upper with a deep 
and broad furrow ; petioles of upper leaves short. Bracts ovate, acute, caducous, leaving a semilunar scar. Flowers 
white, with purple sheaths, greenish below, infundibuliform-campanulate, inclined downwards, twelve on the racem 
t; tube greenish, two inches in circumference at the base, gradually dilating upwards ; limb slightly does 
leaves of the perianth oblong-spathulate, three outer with slight purple ibn inside, three inner rather broader, with 
a deep purple tinge on the inside, and with a prominent ridge on the pons suleated on either side, and two 
elevated ridges on the inner surface separated by a shallow groove."— Bot. ., t. 4673. There is great reason to 
hope ed eme noble plant, of which ies Veitch have raised an abundance, will prove hardy. At least it can require 
nothing more than a covering of ashes in winter. 
614. PEREON PURPURASCENS. Morren and Decaisne. (aliàs Cynanchum purpurascens 
Siebold.) A hardy herbaceous half-twining plant. Native of Japan. Belongs to the Order of 
Dogbanes. Flowers purple. 
Stems and all the green parts slightly downy ; when in flower becoming weaker, with a tendency to twine. Leaves 
narrow, oblong, mucronate, becoming smaller near the ends of the shoots where the flowers appear. Flowers dull purple, 
on slender ege in long-stalked many-flowered cymes, proceeding from the axils of the superior leaves, the size of, and 
very much like, Vincetoxicum nigrum. This perennial appears to be hardy, or half-hardy, like V. japonicum, 
growing with it freely in a peat border ; but, although transmitted as a good garden plant, it must be consigned to the 
mere botanical collector.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii. 
615. PLEUROTHALLIS WAGENERIANA. Klotzsch. A stove epiphyte, of no great interest, 
PPE to Orchids. Native of Venezuela. Flowers yellowish. Introduced by M. Allardt 
of Berlin, 
Pleurothallis (Aggregatæ) Wageneriana ; rhizomate ret squamis obtecto, caulibus secundariis 2—3 
articulatis, vaginis 2 appressis obtusis subintegris obtectis ; folio crasso carnoso angusto pri rimum conduplicato fu 
eanaliculato, basi euneato apice attenuato retuso ; floribus binis d peduneulatis ; perigonii quoda tribus exterioribus 
ringentibus crassis carnosis sordide flavidis, ioterioiben —€— suleatis acutis flavidis striis parallelis purpureis 
notatis, exterioribus triplo minoribus ; labello trilobo atro-purpureo tumido, anticé tuberculoso buie perigonii foliolis 
interioribus sequa uantibus ; pedunculi i Dubois hyalinis obtusis binis aut tribus subeucullatis vestitis. 
Stem the thickness of a erowquill, three to four inches long. Leaf very thick and fleshy, the same length and half 
‘an inch broad. Flowers three lines long, with white bracts. Petals streaked with red and membranous. Lip deep 
red,—Allgem. Gartenzeit., Aug. 28, 1852. 
