1 ! GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
] B. Blandfordly flammea. IAndley. From New Holland. A beautiful greenhouse perennial, 
flowering in October. Flowers 2| inches long, vivid orange scarlet, Introduced by Messrs. Low 
and Co. Natural order, Lilyworts (Liliaceae), 
This, which is perhaps the finest of the Blandfordias, in a vigorous state is fuU 4 feet high, and bears 5 or 6 flowers 
P»««fal stem. The plant which flowered with Messrs. Low, was an unhealthy offset, little more than 
6 inches high. The leaves are narrow _ 9 
most vivid orange scarlet, with a broad edge of clear yellow. 
Journ. Hort. Soc.* Vol. v.. n. 32. 
intermedia 
MARMORAT 
IAndley ; (alias Dossinia marmorata, Morren) . From Borneo ? 
V pretty herbaceous stove plant, belonging to the natural order of Orchids 
Flowers white. Introduced by Mr. Hugh Low. 
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The leaves are of a deep reddish olive-green, with a velvety surface, and are traversed by fine golden veins, which 
dnppearto a great extent when the leaves become old. It is far less beautiful than Ancectochilus setaceus or Monockihis 
yiu*. The flowers are white, with a reddish calyx, in a long, dark, purple, downy raceme. Although destitute of 
stnk.ng beauty, they well repay a minute examination, being covered with pellucid glands, and frosted, as it were, 
over all the inner surface. Requires damp heat, and a Triixti.rp nf tl^roo no^ Q «i,^ ~a _-u _„i ., . , 
decayed 
stems 
Journ. Hort. Soc., Vol. v., p. 79. 
20. Iku.VNTni.MUM 8COPAMUM. NuUall From California. A small hardy shrubby rock- 
plant, belonging to the natural order of Rock Eoses-or CisW, flowering in September. Flowers 
yt How. Introduced by the Horticultural Society. 
« J/ ' C r^\ r 0L ° BOSi ' L i Mlhy ' ( " lih Morenoa S lobosa ' ifa * - «®» Q»amocli, 
Kenth.m.) A llex.ean greenhouse twining perennial, of the natural order of Bindweeds 
zh inches lornr. scarlet. F1hwa«i ;» ft™* — i™ 
%\ inches long, scarlet. Rowers in September. 
I A rambling perennial, smooth in every part. Leav< 
and acuminate \ others sagittate ; o0un •«m.w~i~ l-^ 
The flowers grow in naked umbels, 
Flower 
form 
sepal has a long subulate process at the back. 
Each 
tube, and a campanulate erect limb divide mta - - T I/ 1 /* g ' deep rich red ' with a curved cylindrical 
free* in any goo^l rich soil *£££ 7 It ° n 1=",^ ^ ^.V*"* ^ ^ ^^>-*« 
requires to be kept rather dry n a cool part of th^wT i I * ^^ by CUttb S S of the ?°™% shoots > and 
the greenhouse dS, summi, •L^U^1^ti1Z?:^:• ^ JE* ? ^ * * ^ ** "" ° f 
growing where there is plenty of room for its tops to ™L TiS ! « **""* & *" SpedeS > * * °"ly fit for 
gm«nd.-.W Hort. Soc., Vol. v., p. 83. mhaZre *""* * * POt ' bU * mUSt be phtnted » the °P en 
of ZZ v X™ STLKLf ; ^! r shrab from Cub °> bd °^ * *• «- 
shrub 
on the under-side with green reins on a pale ground VvC^TJr' T-^l ^^ "** the P ° int > and netted 
brown stalks an inch long. The corolla is Lut the Tame kn^th t, bT ^ ^ *" "* ° f the ,eaVe8 ' ° n cini — 
The calyx consists of five straight, narrow, J£ Z 5 ^trtStZ 7^ ^f "^ *** a ^^ St ^ 
ansen ; requires a temperature intermedia e bXen the 1^1 , ^ Whflnee ** S eDeric name has 
freelv in bam, peat, and leaf-mould.-/™™. ^L y^T dT tTi "* 7 ^^ * ^^ ™ d ^' S 
^^ Pw t> ' P" t,< ^^ a figure. 
* to th llmdwe'd order ^ ' ™ let * ™ h White ' B1 °— » the autumn • 
This appears to be an annual, and has mnrh *K« 
« length of its sepal., their ^ej^^f Jf^Ztf ^f 8 ™' from *«d, it principally differs in the 
old Convo viilnu m-t~. . ... i "^pmii^and the shortness of the flnwAr.«f«iu rru. «__. 7 . . . 
great 
» U..U..I .pp,,™,^^ „ //on ' fc; ^ •• ™th, are „f .„ mtam rioH edged ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
