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very much resembles the Sheep's Scabious of our own country. It is easy of 

 culture, and would be an interesting ornament to any greenhouse. 



Catasetum callosum. — The tumour-lipped. (Bot. Reg. 5.) Sepals and 

 petals of a dull brownish-red, without spots ; column of the same colour ; lip 

 jjreen, with a yellow tubercle near the base, and a stain near the apex. Each 

 flower is near three inches across. Grown by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Catasetum cornutum. — Horned. (Bot. Reg. 5.) From Demerara. Each 

 raceme has sixteen or more flowers, of a dull green, beautifully spotted with 

 very dark purple. Each flower is about two inches across. 



Catasetum barbatum var. proboscidem. — Long-beaked. (Bot. Reg. 5.) 

 Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle, received it from Brazil by Dr. Gardner, who found it 

 near Sertao, growing on a small species of palm. Flowers green, beautifully 

 spotted with dark purple, having however a lip which is entirely green. Each 

 flower is about two inches and a half across. 



Catasetum laminatum var.eburneum. — White-lipped knife-blade Catasetum. 

 (Bot. Reg. 5.) From Mexico to the London Horticultural Society by Mr. 

 Hartweg. Lip of a pure white ; the entire flower is without spots ; sepals of a 

 deep brown-red ; petals of a rosy-pink towards the upper part, green below. 

 Each flower is near four inches across. 



Catasetum uanciferum. — Lance bearing. (Bot. Reg. 5.) From Brazil, 

 sent by Dr. Gardner. It has bloomed in the collection of the Hon. and Very 

 Rev. William Herbert. Sepals and petals green, beautifully spotted with 

 brownish-purple ; lip green. Each flower is about two inches across. 



Chelone Lyonii. — Mr. Lyons. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 269.) Scrophulariacea. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. A native of Carolina, a hardy herbaceous plant. 

 It has somewhat the resemblance to the well-known C. obliqua, but is more 

 robust. The leaves are broader, and the flowers larger, of a pretty purplish-pink 

 colour. The plant grows about two feet high, flowering profusely in large 

 terminal spiked heads, from June to the end of the season. 



Echeveria lurida. — Lurid Echeveria. (Bot. Reg. 1.) Crassulaceae. De- 

 candria Pentagynia. A hardy greenhouse perennial, having a good deal the 

 appearance of a house-leek. It differs from E. secunda in the leaves being 

 longer, more blunt, and the flowers of a much richer scarlet. 



noticed, but not figured in botanical register. 



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Bolbofhyi.lum sordidum. — From Guatemala. The spike is six inches long, 

 and scape about a foot. The flowers are fleshy, of a dull olive brown, mottled 

 with purple. 



Rouriouezia maculata. — From Guatemala. The flowers are delicately 

 spotted with red. 



Eria ci.avicaulis. — An Indian Epiphyte, bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. 

 The petals and sepals white. Lip white, edged with pink. 



IpoMyKA FICIFOLIA. — Messrs. Salter and Wheeler, nurserymen, Western Road, 

 Bath, have raised this new and beautiful flowering species. It is a stove 

 climber, having very rich purple flowers. 



Garuoquia betonicoides. — This Mexican plant has generally been cultivated 

 in the greenhouse, and there blooming so scantily as not to be much regarded. 

 We have seen specimens of it in the Epsom Nursery, growing in the open 

 ground, blooming profusely, and the pinkish-purple flowers gave it a very orna- 

 mental appearance. The blossoms arc larger as well as more numerous than 

 when grown in the greenhouse. 



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