winter, care must be taken to give no more water than is required to keep the soil moderately moist ; but in summer, water 
may be given freely in the evening or early in the morning. It is important that the plants should be so placed that the 
sun's rays do not strike the sides of the pot. The species here figured, being a native of the Swan River Colony, requires 
to be treated as a greenhouse plant. It does not readily propagate by cuttings, but may be increased by grafting on any 
of the more common free-growing species. Imported seeds germinate freely." 
180. Veronica Formosa. Bentliam. {alias Y. dios- 
and Westcott.) A little half-hardy ever- 
Knowles 
Mowers bright 
green bush from Van Diemen's Land, 
blue. Belongs to the Linariads (ScropAulariacea) . Very- 
pretty. A native of 
Mount 
found 
stand the winter at Kew, planted against an east wall. 
(Eig. 86.) 
It forms a shrub about 2 feet high, erect, much branched, with two 
obscure lines of hairs between the leaves. Leaves rather crowded, 
arranged somewhat in four rows, oblong, lanceolate, spreading, scarcely 
stalked, single-nerved. Flowers in terminal racemes, not many of 
which open at one time, though there is a succession of them. 
Corolla bright and deep purplish blue, somewhat 2-lipped ; upper lip 
of one broad oval lobe, lower of three narrower segments, the middle 
one the smallest. This with a few others belongs to a section of 
Veronica characterised as evergreen shrubs, having small closely-set 
12 mvr tie-like bushes. The old and well- 
form 
known V< 
They are natives of high southern latitudes; being found in Van 
Diemen's Land, New Zealand, Falkland Islands, and Lord Auckland's 
and Campbell's Islands, in latitude 53°. The two species known to us 
m a living state prove sufficiently hardy to bear the winter of this climate, when planted in sheltered situations and pro- 
tected during severe frosts. That now figured is worthy of being kept in the greenhouse, where it produces its pretty 
racemes of light blue flowers in the spring. It grows readily in light loam and leaf mould, and is easily propagated by 
cuttings, treated in the usual way ; it also freely produces seeds.— Botanical Magazine, t 4512. 
181. Lycaste chrysopteea. Morten. A stove epiphyte from Mexico, with deep orange-yellow 
flowers. Belongs to the Orchids. Introduced by the Belgian Government. 
We only know this plant by the figure in the Annates de Oand. t 232. It seems very like L. cruenta, but according to 
Professor Morren, its flowers are much larger, the colours more brilliant, and the details ot the lip essentially different, 
the appendix being 3-lobed, and the middle division of the lip lanceolate, acuminate, and toothletted. The yellow 
flowered Lycastes related to cruenta approach each other so nearly that without knowing exactly on what their 
differences depend, the one may be easily confounded with the other. We trust that the following memorandum will 
ass.st m clearing up the difficulty surrounding them. Lye. cruenta is taken for the standard of comparison. 
1. L. cruenta Lindley ; (alias L. balsamea A. Richard). Lip roundish, spotted with crimson at the base, the lateral 
lobes short, the central oblong and rounded 5 appendix minute, emarginate. Column hairy all over. Petals naked- 
Guatemala. 
2. L. chrysoptera. Morren. Lip roundish, spotted, the lateral lobes short, the central lanceolate acute toothletted ; 
appendix 3-lobed. Column hairy. Petals naked. Mexico. 
3 L. macrobulbon (alias MaxiUaria macrobulban, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 4228.) Lip much longer than broad, spotted 
with crimson on inside ; the lateral lobes short ; the central ovate-oblong, rolled back, crisp, broader than the laterals ; 
appendix acute entire. Column * p ETALS naked , (Description and figure imperfect.)— Native of Santa Martha. 
fcaid to have very large pseudo-bulbs. 
4. L. cochkata. Lip nearly circular, not spotted ; the lateral lobes long, rather acute ; the central flat, circular, 
cn^r I g y 17 V ! 8PPCndix entire ' M lar & e » the lateral »obea. Column long, hairy. Petals hairy.-Native 
sTaUeT iT Wr Wer8 WW *«*" ,Wd » <lee P oran S« 5 the sepals and petals ovate, the latter obtuse and not much 
