42 NEW OB RARE PLANTS. 



S EP1DENDRUM PAPILLOSUM. Warty fruited. (Bot. Mag. 36S1. 



ORCHIDEcE, GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Mr. Skinner discovered this interesting species, and introduced it to R. 

 Bateraan, Esq., in whose rich collection it has bloomed. The scape grows a 

 foot long, and the flowers are produced on a terminal raceme, of from eight 

 to ten upon each. The sepal is of a yellowish green, column the same 

 colour but tipped with orange ; lip, white with three rosy pink stripes. Each 

 flower is near two inches across. 



6. MAXILLARIA AUREO FULVA. Golden brovn. (Bot. Mag. 3fi«9 



MAXILLARIA. ORCHIDEae, GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Sent to this country from Rio. The scape rises about two inches high 

 bearing a raceme of several flowers, of a fine golden brown colour, the 

 points of the petals being lightest. Each flower is rather more than an inch 

 long. 



7 M1MULUS ROSEO CARDINAL1S. Hodson') hybrid Mimulis. 



This fine variety was raised by Mr. Hodson, in the Botanic Garden, Bury 

 St Edmunds, and is intermediate between M. cardinalis and M. roseus. 

 The habit of the plant is that of the former, but the flowers of the latter; they 

 are however of a deeper rose colour, and twice size of the M. roseus. It is a 

 very pretty variety, and well worth cultivating. Mimulus from mimo, a 

 monkey; alluding to the seeds resembling the face of this anin>*l. 



8, RONDELET1A ODORATA- Sweet tcented. {Botanist. 



Rl'BlACBOS. PENTANDU1A MONOGYNIA. 



A native of Cuba, found near the town of Havannah, on bash covered 

 rocks near the sea. The plant was sent in 1830 to Messrs. Loddiges. It has 

 since bloomed in many hot house collections of plants. The present species 

 is shrubby growing tour or five feet high. The flowers are produced in a 

 terminal panicle, each having from twelve to twenty blossoms, which are of 

 a rosy red colour, having an orange coloured e\e. Each blossom is near 

 half an inch across. The plant is a profuse bloomer, and continues to bloom 

 for several months. In its native situation, the flowers are fragrant, but in 

 this country they emit but a slight odour. The plant is well worth a place 

 in the hot house. Rondeletia in compliment to G. Rondelet a physician, and 

 Author of Works on Fishes and Alsrese. 



9. STANHOPEA QUADRICORNJS. Four homed. (Bot. Reg. 5 



ORCHIDACEae. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



S. Rucker, Esq. of Wandsworth, received this species from the Spanish 

 Main. It is a very handsome flowering species, the flowers are much like 

 those of S, oculata, but not near so much spotted. The plant has very much 

 the appearance of S. grandiflora. The scape bears three or four flowers. 

 Each blossom is about five inches across, sepals, yellow spotted with red. 

 Labellum, at its base rosy crimson, then greenish white, terminating at the 

 point with yellow. It is a fine flowering species well meriting a place in 

 every collection. 



10 TWEEDIA VERSICOLOR. Changeable fiouxred. (Bot. Mag. 86S0- 



ASCTEPIDACEae. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 



A very beautiful flowering Asclepiadeous plant, -which was discovered by 

 Mr. Tweedie, and is most likely a native of Tucuma. It has bloomed in 

 the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin. The plant is herbaceous, twining. 

 The flowers are produced in long spikes, on numerous lateral peduncles, 



