78 OLE AVISOS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
] i I . Achimknes Gim R36HTQ of the Gardens. Origin unknown. A stove herbaceous plant 
with handsome scarlet (lowers. Belongs to the ( resnerada, Introduced by Mr. A. Henderson. 
Sterna erect, deep purple brown, with a few scattered hairs. Leaves opposite, stalked, oblong-lanceolate, rugose, 
con- \, eoanriv "rrated, not unlike those of the larger stinging-nettle. Flowers solitary, axillary, with a slender hairy 
pedoncl*', twice as long as the leafstalks. Calyx smooth, equally 5-parted. Corolla deflexed, nearly cylindrical, gibbous 
! at the base on the upper side, \\ inch long, bright scarlet, with an oblique regular limb, and a circular throat Disk, a 
loM fleshy ring. Stigma large, two-lobed, very hairy. This is a neat, distinct, and rather slender kind, requiring the 
aarne treatment as the old A. coccinea, and easily increased by the small scaly rhizomes. It grows about 8 or 10 inches 
in heigh r, and flowOT from June to August. It is very handsome. — Journ. Hort. Soc* 9 vol. v. With a figure. 
12^. Oncidium nigratum. An orchid from Guiana, with cream-coloured flowers spotted with 
blackish-brown, arranged in a branched panicle. Introduced by Mr. Loddiges. 
0. 1 atum (BiStLAT*) panicula ramosa, sepalis lmearilanceolatis undulatis acutis sequalibus, labello triangulari postice 
rotundato apiee auguatato acuto, criatA multituberculata, columnce alis angustis subdentatis basi productis. 
A very curious and distinct species, received from Sir Robert Schomburgk many years since, and at last flowered by 
Mr. Loddiges. It is nearly allied to O. phymatochilum. The blossoms grow in branched panicles, and are about as large 
as those of 0. incurvum. The colour of the sepals and petals is pale yellow or cream colour, with a few irregular 
brownish bkek blotches. The lip is brighter yellow, with a brown stain or two below the point 
i 28, OlCCIDniM phymatochtum. A beautiful orchid, supposed to be derived from Mexico, with 
long green sepals and a white lip. Ilowers in April. 
0. phymatochilum (BASiLATA)racemo subpaniculato, sepalis linearibus acuminatis apice recurvis lateralibus longissimis, 
febelti auriculis convexis dilatatis crenatis lobo intermedio uniruicuiato ovato acuminato basi multituberculato, columnoe 
alia semieordatis acuminatis. 
oder this name is now not uncommon in gardens a charming 
erect, narrow, somewhat panicled racemes of greenish flo\ 
red it from M«n Loddizes and the late Mr. Clowes. 
Three years since we 
Loddigefl and the Inte Mr. Clowes. It baa oblong, 2 celled, not furrowed, olive green peetldobolbi 
slightly tinged with purple, and Burroundedby scales as long as themselves, which, when young, are olive green spotted 
with crimson. The leaves are of thin texture and vary in form from linear-lanceolate to oblong. The flowers are 
remarkable for the great extension of the lateral sepals, on which account, and because of their green colour spotted 
with chocolate brown, they have much the appearance of belonging to some Brassia. The lip is pure white, with yellow 
tuberclea and a few stains of the same colour near the base, 
L24. Cui'hea igxea. Alphonse Be Candolle. [alias C. platycentra of Gardens) A Mexican 
perennial, with loner scarlet flowers 
3 Flore de$ Sent* that the true Broad-spurred Cuphea (platycentra, Bentham) is not the plant kno^ 
Gardens: and eonaeouentlv M. AInhnn«A Dp CimdnUp, ha» <rivpn flip tatter the. annronriate name 
the Fiery Cuphea (C. ignea). 
126. Aidibertia polystacuya. Bentham 
lifornia, with 
rtieultural 
Bad racemes of white flowers. Belongs to the Labiate order. Introduced by the 
A white, sage-like, herbaceous plant, growing about 2 feet high. Leaves on long stalks, oblong, blunt, crenate 
a strong and by no means agreeable odour, proceeding apparently from numerous point-like dark brown glitterin 
j with * inch they are covered, especially on the under side. Stem erect, producing a great number of white labiate flowers, 
on short, lateral, one-sided racemes. Stamens long and prominent. This seems to be unable to bear an English winter 
without protection ; for it has perished among rockwork in that of 1 849-50. The flowers have no beauty ; but the 
now-white leaves and stems produce an appearance sufficiently remarkable to give it a claim to cultivation where the 
climate agrees with it.— Journ. Hort. Soc.. vol. v. 
venusta. Humboldt. A handsome greenhouse shrub, with 
and long solitary pendent sahmm-coloured flowers tipped with pink. A native of Peru. Introduced 
by Mr. Linden. (Fig. 57.) 
This is one of the best of the Peruvian Fuchsias, for the introduction of which we are indebted to Mr. Linden, from 
