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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
234. Epidendrum a.vtenxiferum. 
A singular Orchid with 
inconspicuous 
long-tailed flowers 
Native of Aalapa. Introduced by M. Quesnel. Flowered by M. Pescatore. 
(Kg. 113. a diminished, b magnified.) 
E. antenniferum (Amphiglottium) foliis coriaceis oblongis acutis, pedunculo gracillimo 
apice subpaniculato, petalis longissimis filiforraibus, labello ovato leviter dentato basi 
trituberculato. 
This plant was originally found near Xalapa, by Henchman, who brought home a small 
dried specimen without leaves, which was given us by the late Mr. George Loddiges. 
Among the plants purchased of M. Quesnel by M. Pescatore, it was found alive marked as 
a native of Gabon, a place in the province of Rio Janeiro ; but this locality is doubtful. A 
short time since it flowered with the latter gentleman at Celle St. Cloud, when we were 
favoured with a specimen. In many other species of the genus, especially among the 
Amphiglots, there is that tendency to lengthen the petals, of which so striking an example 
was given in the long-tailed Lady's Slipper (our tab. 9.) ; but in no other known species 
does it occur in anything like the same degree as here ; and it is to be observed that in this 
Epidendrum the lengthening is an after-growth, the petals being straight and short before 
the flowers expand, 
of Epidendrum elongatum. 
233. Pachira macrocarpa. Hooker. (alias Carolinea macrocarpa 
Chamisso and Schlechtendahl.) A noble stove tree, with huge white and 
yellow flowers. Belongs to Sterculiads. Native of Mexico. 
The flowers are truly magnificent, and yet produced from a young and small plant. 
a species, it comes very near the P. aquatica of Aublet, and may probably prove identical 
with it. Of the ordinary size of the native plant we are ignorant. Our flowering specimen 
had not attained a greater height than four feet. Leaves large, smooth, digitate, with from 
seven to eleven leaflets, which are oblong-ovate, entire, acuminate, cuneate, and tapering 
at the base into a short footstalk. Calyx short-cylindrical, truncated, thick and leathery, 
In the annexed cut the flower at b is magnified : its real size is that 
clothed with minute velvety down, bearing a circle of conspicuous glands at the base. 
Petals full six inches long, linear-strap-shaped, the upper half reflexed, white and smooth 
within, pale greyish or greenish-brown, and slightly velvety externally. Staminal tube 
rather short, divided into innumerable parcels, each again divided into eight or ten 
filaments, which are yellow below, the rest deep red. This is a tall tree of rapid growth ; 
and, as it requires the temperature of a stove, it is adapted only 
for growing in lofty hothouses, such as the Palm-house in the 
Royal Gardens, in which a plant has quickly attained the height 
of twenty-five feet, and, according to the present rate of growth, 
will soon double that height. In our cultivation it appears to 
have no season of rest. It will grow freely in any kind of light 
loam, kept in a proper state of moisture. — Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4549. 
We are at a loss to know what it is intended that this 
plant should be called. At the head of the article in the 
"Botanical Magazine" it is named Pachira longifolia, — but 
this is translated ]on%-floivered ; and then it is immediately 
macr 
the latter is what is meant. 
We presume, however, that 
H YDROMESTUS MACULATU 
Scheidweile 
r. 
A yellow flowered stove shrub, belonging to the 
order of Acanthads. Native of Mexico. Introduced 
by Messrs. Lowe & Co. 
Is really a handsome plant, with very glossy leaves, bright 
yellow flowers, and a singularly shining imbricated spike of 
large bracts, from which the flowers spring. An under-shrub, 
with terete purplish branches, and opposite, large, very glossy, 
