158 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
freely if potted in light loam and leaf-mould, and placed under the full influence of the sun in summer. It should be 
frequently syringed in the mornings or evenings, during hot dry weather, but care must be taken that all superabundant 
water passes off freely, and that the soil does not remain long in a saturated state. In winter water must be given very 
sparingly, and the temperature of the house during the night need not at any time exceed 55°. It readily increases 
either by cuttings or by seeds, as also by gemmse produced on each areole of the fruit, which ultimately form separate 
and distinct plants.— Bot. Mag., t. 4542. 
207. Stylidium mtjceonipolium. Sonder. A greenhouse herbaceous plant, of much beauty, 
from the Swan River. Mowers yellow. Belongs to the Order of Styleworts. Introduced by 
Messrs. Lucombe and Pince. (Fig. 102.) 
The plant thus called by Sonder does not wholly agree with this, for neither is the labellum in our plan 
" inappendiculate," nor can the leaves be said to be "radical." The first character is, indeed, easily overlooked in the 
dried plant, from which Sonder was likely to have drawn up his description ; and with regard to the latter, tufted rosules 
of apparently radical leaves do, in several Stylidia, elongate into real leafy stems or branches. Again, the nearest 
natural allies of our plant are unquestionably S. tiliatum Lindley, and S. saxifragoides Lindley ; but Sonder has 
separated them by nearly thirty species. The present species is very pretty and produces its copious bright tufts of 
flowers m August. Roots wiry, brown. Stems in our plant tufted, two to three inches long, copiously leafy. Leaves 
glabrous, spreading, linear-subulate, broader at the base, tipped at the point with a setaceous bristle. Peduncles terminal, 
solitary on each branch, a span high, above, and the pedicels and calyx clothed with slender hairs tipped with glands, so 
delicate as to be scarcely visible to the naked eye. Panicle roundish or oval, many-flowered, rather compact. Corolla 
rather bright yellow, with zigzag orange lines round the mouth. Ovary or capsule much elongated, slender, cylindrical, 
in summer these small weak plants should be placed in a situation where they may be maintained in a moderately moist 
state, without having daily recourse to the water-pot ; and in winter they should be placed in a dry airy place, taking care 
in damp weather that no water lodges amongst the fascicles of leaves, for when this happens the plant is liable to be 
destroyed.— Bot. Mag., t. 4538. 
208. Btjblingtonia pubescens. A beautiful stove Orchideous epiphyte, from Pernambuco. 
* lowers wlnte. Introduced by John Knowles, Esq., of Manchester. 
w B \ pnb u esC ™ ; acau * is > fo1 " 9 coriaceis apice carinatis mucronatis, racemis densissimis pendulis, labello obovato bilobo 
breviter hastato lacimis erectis, crista} lamellis -*-* •- " • - ■ - • ■ ■• ■- - ----- =~ 
subulatis albis 2 oblongo-linearibus porrectis. 
utrinque 3 valde insequalibus, columnse basi pubescentis alis 2 minutis 
silver medal. It formed 
November last, when it received a 
snow JZTki t IT? tUft ° f dark green ^ leaves > PO urin § **& from their bosom a profusion of bunches of 
it aZlh t Sent t0 J ° hn Knowles > Esq., of Manchester, from some friends in Pernambuco, where 
sTwiLn « ^^ IT: V 1S n0t D0W ' however > introduced for the first time, for we have in our possession a dried 
specimen, communicated bv the late Mr r^^ t.„aa: :_ xr ,____ ,„,„ ,,.,.. %T \V . u 
Loddiges, in November, 1846, at which time we named it pubw 
found in the nth&V flrnnninrr ixrhi+o_fl™™vt^rl onA/noa Of *Hpca RHPC 
are ti ftw InuiM e ^ x. . ^ 1UUUU m Ine otner trooping white-flowered s 
ZdZ an^l 7 I ' B :.r nadensis ^fragrans, have the bunches of flowers erect. 
canaiaa, and venusta, are thus distinguished :— 
R kbtTn^^ *Tl ^ Umn ' a HP Whh three y ellow rid S es on each *** w« ** *>**> ^nd a pair of erect side 
B l«h'TI I ^ hat / 9 teehDical, y called has ^e. Its flowers are the smallest of the three. 
' flo^eS 2 I. £ ! l> * UP b n ° degree hastate > with man >' fallow ridges on each side near the base. Its 
R ZTw I ger D m the laSt ' and the flowere mor * loosely arranged. 
' one rite ^n IT? T^ ' Up ™* * lightly hastate > with a stalk two-thirds as long as the column, and only 
as We as in th ! T """^ * br ° ken r ° W ° f callos5tie8 - The flowers are much fewer in each bunch, but twice 
as large as in the last 
™lp+°fl ' " FRANC ^ SC 1 EA eximia - Scheidweiler. A handsome stove shrub from Brazil, with large deep 
loier flowers. Belongs to the Linariads. Introduced by M. de Jonghe, of Brussels. 
*xtS^ V*^^ ^:i:i:^t™°^' not shining - nowers termina1, about two toge ' 
that it profes to be a f^flT* ^^ 5 8P ° keQ ° f M * he finest 8 P ecies of the S enus ^ et in ™M™ tioa > and we learD * 1S ° 
season upwards of two hoT? m * ° f **"* heigh * ° f * W ° feet and a half P^ducing successively through the blooming 
Europe were produced in mZ h iT I™' ° f ** SiZC &nd C ° lour re V^entei in our plate. The first blossoms borne in 
tinned to produce blossom* *mZ' 7 K^ *** ° riginal P Iant a 8 ain commenced flowering in January, 1850, and con- 
of Botany, ii p 177 * '" the end of June - Young plants are also reported to flower ireely.-Gardener's Maga*«* 
