68 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



flowered; eachfloweristubular,about an inch and a quarter long, of a'pretty pale 

 pink colour. Orthosiphon, from orthos, straight, and siphon, a tube ; from the straight 

 form of the tubular part of the flower. 



Spirea Kamtchatica var.Himalensis. — Himaylayan form oftheKamtchatka 

 Meadow Sweet. (Bot. Reg. 4.) Rosaceae. Icosandria Pentagynia. A hardy 

 perennial, requiring the same treatment as the garden Meadow Sweet. The 

 flowers are produced on corymbous umbels; white. 



Trop."eoluji Moritzianum. — Mr. Moritz's Indian Cress. Sent from Cumana, 

 and bloomed in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden the last summer. 

 The stems are twining, about two feet high; flowers of a bright orange-scarlet, 

 marked with red veins on the inside ; the ends of the petals are deeply fringed. 

 Each flower is from two to three inches long. 



Vandatessei.lata. — Tessellated flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 265.) Orchidaceae. 

 GynaudriaMonandria. Bloomed in the select and rich collection of S. Rucker, 

 Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey. It is a native of China and India, especially 

 flourishing near Bengal, attaching itself to the mango tree. Racemes erect. 

 bearing from six to twelve flowers. Each flower is near three inches across. 

 Sepals and petals of a light lilac, marbled with brown ; labellum pinkish-lilac, 

 becoming purple towards the end. 



PLANTS NOTICED, NOT FIGURED, IN BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



Pleurothai.lis recurva. — A small creeping orchideous plant, with spikes of 

 dull purple flowers ; and P. i.uteola, with small yellow flowers. Grown in the 

 collection of Mrs. Cannon, Stratford. 



Aporum sinuatum. — Flowers of this orchidese of a pale yellowish-green. 

 Grown by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Gongora kulva var. vitellina. — Very pretty. Flowers of a bright yellow, 

 slightly spotted. From Mexico. Grown by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Arundina bamdus.'efolia. — A small ephiphyte, with the habit of a bamboo, 

 and the flowers of a catleya. Flowers large, rosy, with the lip of a lively red- 

 purple ; very handsome. The stems grow to, when in flower, from three to five 

 feet high. It has recently bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. 



Brassia Lavvrenceana. — The flowers are the size of B. lanceana, of a pale 

 yellow, very fragrant. From Brazil, introduced by Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing Park. 



Dendrobium tetragonum. — With spider-like formed flowers, of a yellowish- 

 green, edged with red; lip pale yellow, streaked with crimson. Grown by 

 Messrs. Loddiges. 



Clianthus carneus. — This plant has been in this country for a few years, 

 and came by the name of Slreblorhiza speciosa, from Norfolk Island. It is now 

 found to be a Clianthus. It has bloomed in a cold conservatory in the nursery of 

 Messrs. Lucomle. Pince, and Co., Exeter. Mr. Pince remarks upon it, " It is 

 covered whh bunches of flowers (flesh coloured), and has succession enough to 

 continue so for a month or two longer. It will prove to be a very good con- 

 servatory creeper. It twines freely, of its own accord, up one of the pillars of a 

 Camellia house, and has fine evergreen foliage." 



Acacia platyptera. — A greenhouse shrub, a native of Swan River, bloomed 

 with Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. It has much the appearance of A. 

 alata, but more coarsely hairy, and broader wings. The flowers are of a very 

 bright deep yellow, in small balls, and is a pretty addition to this interesting 

 genus. 



Sobralia sessilis. — Flowers rose coloured ; lip much darker colour. Grown 

 by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Cai.estacia cyanea. — One of the most beautiful plants from Australia. It 

 forms a small heath-like bush about a foot high, and its branches are covered 

 with flowers resembling six pointed stars, of the most intense and brilliant blue. 



