NKW AND RARE PLANTS. 19 



PART II. 

 LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



IN PERIODICALS. 



Anobmum GLAmivoLiUM.-Sword-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 08.) Orchidace* 

 Gvnandria Monandria. Messrs. Lnddiges have bloomed the present spec.es 

 It" is a native of Madagascar. The flowers possess little interest ; they are of a 

 olle sulphur, each about an inch and a half across. Dr. L.ndley notices that 

 {here are many other species, not yet known to systematic botanists,— as A. tenue , 

 fasciola, oruithorhynchum, polystachyum, brevitohum. 



D-ndrobium MOSCHAT OM .-Musk r smelling. (Bot Mag. 3837.) Orchidaceas. 

 Qynandria Monandria. A native oi Peg... Ava, and Sylhet It has bloomed m 

 the collection of Mr. Horsfall, and the flowering stem measured hve feet uee 

 inches high; the side shoots being still taller, one ot which was six feet three 

 inches. Each flower is from three to four inches across, ot a tawny colour, 

 suffused with rose. The lip has on each side a deep blood-coloured spot. It IS 

 a very noble plant, and well merits a place in every collection. 



(To be continued.') 



NOTICED, BUT NOT FIGURED IN BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



Dendrobiumcaixaratum.-Mi-. Cuming sent it from Singapore to Messrs. 

 Loddiges, with whom it has hloomed. The flowers are green, growiDg in 



^Occ.dium pbucat.um.-Mt. Bateman received it from the Botanic Garden at 

 Munich It very closely resembles O. reflexum, differing ,n the sepals and 



petals being less blotched. 



(To be continued.) 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



On Smith's superb Pink, &c.-Are the blush pinks generally allowed to be 

 exhibited at shows in competition with the other varieties, I mean £uch as 

 Smith's superb Blush, &c. ? . ' " ' , 



[If they be shown in classes, as is generally done, Viz. dark lac^d, red laced, 

 &c certainly not, hut it is an easy matter to make a class for blush, &c Some- 

 time a, ri J is offered for the h. it pink of any class ; then, of course the blush 

 is a, eligible as the others. We have often seen them so exhibited ; and in 

 other ways brought into competition, as best rose-leaved, &c— Conductor. j 



On Phovence Roses, &c.-I should be much obliged if Mr. C. Wood, who 

 Bave a very good descriptive list of pillar roses, or some other rose grower, 

 would give a list in the February Cabinet of about forty of the best k.nds ot 

 Provence, and a few of the best of the hybrid China ruses. Kosa. 



Stowmarket, Dec. 17, 1840. 



REMARKS. 



The W,st London Gardeners' Associate for ^^JfSo^OA 



Monday Evening, Feb. 17th, 1840.-Mr. Shearer read his nape. « ' On the Cu 

 tore of the Camellia." He began by observmg that camellias, like heaths and 



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