COLQUHOUNIA VESTITA. 



This attractive shrub is of erect habit, and the 



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• pretty Labiate, not j shoots, leaves and calyces are clothed with a dense white 

 .mo of which is Cohju- wool or felt. Towards the end of autumn, in October, it is 

 e of the mountains of | covered with numerous spikes of minium scarlet flowers, pro- 

 id! in Kamaon, after- ducing a most charming effect. It merits more general culti- 

 l.y (Irittith in Assam, vation as it will only need slight protection in the climate of 

 and is still very rare London in very severe weather. Its flowers are valuable at a 

 onsiderable elevation, season when there is scarcely anything else except Chrysan- 

 r garden at Lacroix, j themums. We believe that the plant figured by Mr. Carriere 

 i thermometer fell to j in the Revue Horticole under the name of C. tomentosa is 

 identical with C. vestita. 



SKL.UilM 



iLA BRAUNII, Baker. 



ic of Selaginella 

 of S. pubescens, 

 given by Spring 



to a different species, it must be relegated to the synonymy. 



In our garden it thrives exceedingly well in sandy peat on 

 a north rockery, raising its handsome emerald green elegantly 

 cut fronds in fair contrast with the pale white of its rachis. 



With Mr. Pellier, at Le Mans the plant flourishes marvel- 

 lously in the open air, fully exposed to the sun. Ten winters 

 have not injured it in the least, and every season it increases 

 in vigour. Indeed it is only in the open air that it develops 

 its full beauty. 



IfFETKT IPI^UXTTS. 



onlj half the le 



lobes of the clir 



finally the native 



We therefore \ 



Odontoglossum c 



received ;m Onhid from the pro- 

 funda, having the habit of O.pul- 

 terialv differing from that species, 

 t year the plant flowered, and its 

 ita of resemblance to those of 0. 

 int introduced into England about 

 y of O.pulchellum, and. which was 

 Guatemala, a, well as the type. 

 ination easily enabled us to detect 

 ?tween our plant and 0. Egertoni. 

 longer than the ovary instead of 

 Hum rounded and mucronate, not 

 ig in the centre of the excavation; 

 ?onnivent and fringed, not entire ; 

 NVw Grenada, 

 species as new, under the name of 



plant it does not offer any very striking features, but it is 

 worthy of a place in the cool-house by the side of 0. pulchel- 

 lum, on account of the abundance of its pretty little white 

 flowers (<). 



V) Odontoglossum candidum, Linden et .And™ .«» ««„ _p,„,^,„ M 

 elongati ovoideo-ancipites, squamis carina 

 rum una foliacea 15 cent, longa); folia hi 

 gustata apice acuta 25 cent, longa 1 cent. 1 

 prommente costis 3 translucentibus ; scapus 6-florus 

 gracilis anceps bracteis remotis longis < 

 florali ovario longiore; flares candidi, parvi 



subconformia sed obtusiuscula 2 inferior* connata apice lineari furcato; 

 laieiium subpanduratum apice mucronatum, basi excavatum dentibus 

 3, extenoribus 2 supra conniventibus, altera i 

 luteae purpureo-punctatae sursum elevata ; gyn 

 fimbriatis, poiiinia pyriformia ; ovarium cyl 

 turn. - In provincia dicta Cauca Novo-Granatensium, 



a pergamenea costa subtus 



