§6 SEW AND RABE PLANTS. 



nierous flower stems, each rising to a foot high, and terminating in a dens* 

 spreading raceme of ten or a dozen flowers. The sepals are strap shaped, 

 about an inch and a half long, of an orange and yellow colour. The petals 

 are very small, pale yellow spotted with red, and the edges bordered with 

 bristly "pointed teeth, and the end terminating in an awl shaped point. 



The plant merits a pi ace in every collection of Stove Orchideas. Cirrho- 

 petalum, from kirrhos, tawny ; and petalon, a petal ; referring to the gen- 

 eral colour of the flowers. 



5. EPIDEM>UUM FLORIBUNDUM. Mavy flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3637 



0RC1IIDACE.E. GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. 



A native ol" Mexico, from whence it was sent to Messrs. Lodiges, in 

 whose collection it has bloomed. The flower stem rises about a foot high 

 terminating in a panicle of numerous flowers, produced on several spread- 

 in«- branches. The (lowers are about an inch across, both sepals and petals 

 are very narrow. The petals are while, column green at the base, white 

 above. Lip, white ; with a carved line of red dots. The plant continues a 

 long time in flower, and being produced numerously have a very interesting- 

 appearance, Epidendrum, from epi, upon ; and dendron, a tree; referring to 

 its native habitation. 



6. EUPHORBIA VENETA. Fenttian Euphorbia, (Bot, Reg. 6. 



EUPHORBIACEJE, MONJECIA, MONANDRIA. 



A native of the country around Venice, and h*s bloomed in the garden of 

 the Hon. W. F. Strangeways, at Abbotsbury, Dorsetshire. It is a robust 

 growing plant, what is usually denominated half shrubby. It is evergreen, 

 and its trailing habit renders it suitable for a rock work, very well com- 

 bining with sedums and similar plants. The ilowers are of a yellowish 

 green, produced numerously in a dense spike, and continue in bloom du- 

 ring a great part of summer. Euphorbia, so called after Euphorbus, Physi- 

 cian to Juba, King of Mauritania. 



7. LOAZA LATEH1TA. Red/lowered. (Bot. Mag. 3632^ 



LOACE/F., POLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, 



Mr. Tweedie discovered this very interesting species in Tucuman, and 

 seeds of it were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden ; where it has bloomed 

 both in the stove, and during summer against a good aspected wall, in the 

 open air, in the latter situation it produced fruit also. It is a most beau- 

 tiful annual plant, deserving a situation in every greenhouse, or other fa- 

 vourable situation. 



The plant is a climber rough and stinging, the stems climb to the length 

 of twenty feet or upwards, producing numerous flowers of a bright orange 

 scarlet colour. Each blossom is near three inches across. 



8. MAMILLAKIA LEHMANNH. Lehmanns. (Bot. Mag. 5634. 



CACTESC, 1C0SANDR1A MONOGYNIA. 



This singular species has bloomed in the fine collection of Messrs. 

 Mackie, Norwich; it is a native of Mexico. The flowers are of a pale 

 straw colour, about two inches across. 



9. PASS/FLORA TUCUMANENSIS. Large stipulated pauion flower. 



This species was also discovered by Mr. Tweedie, at St. Jago de Estero, 

 and sent by him to the Glasgow Gmden. Where in the stove, it bloomed 

 in July 18S7. The flowers are white, about two inches across. The plant 

 grows very rapidly, and blooms most profusely. 



