NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 137 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 



Noticed since our luil. 



1. CEREUS PENTALOPHUS var. SUBARTICULATUS. Fixe winged 



Cereus [Bot. Mag. 3651. 



fACTEEC. ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Tliis very pretty flower and rare species Las bloomed in the fine collection 

 of Messrs. Mackie, Norwich. The flower is nearly tour inches across, of a 

 tine rose colour, merging' nearly into a white centre, where the yellow an- 

 thers, and dark blue and green anthers, which show in a neat contrast with 

 i lie other colours. 



2. CRYPTOCHILUSSANGUINEA. Blood coloured flower. [Bot Reg. 23. 



ORCIUDACB*. GYNANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



This very pretty orchideous plant is a native of rocks in the northern pro- 

 vinces in India. It has bloomed in the fine collection of Messrs. Lodiges's. 

 The plant belongs to the section Epidendreae, and bears affinity to Acantho- 

 plii;>l>iuin. The flowers are produced in spikes, of twelve or more upon each, 

 of a bright scarlet colour. Cryptochilus, referring to the concealed lip. 



3. ECHINACEA DICKSONTA. Mr. Dickson's [Bot. Reg. 27. 



ASTERNACEJE. SYNGENESIA POLYGA'MIA. 



A native of Mexico, the seeds of which were presented to the London 

 Floricultural Society by G. F. Dickson, Esq. The plant is a perennial, 

 probably hardy enough to endure an ordinary winter in the open border; 

 but as the roots bear being taken up and preserved through the winter in dry 

 sand in a similar way to which some persons preserve the Dahlia, it is ad- 

 visable lo take the same precaution with it. The plant blooms from the 

 early part of August to the end of September or later. The flowers are 

 very showy, of a carmine rose-colour, slightly streaked with white, having 

 a yellow centre, each bloom about tour inches across, they are produced very 

 numerously. Blooming so late in the season, the plant rarely produces seeds 

 in the open air, when such are desired it is advisable to take a plant into 

 the greenhouse, whereby blooming earlier, seeds are readily obtained. The 

 plant does not bloom the first season, so that the plant requires to be sown 

 as an half hardy annual in March, and be planted out in the open bor- 

 der about the middle of May. Echinacea?, from the adjective Echinaceus, 

 bristly, alluding to the sharp scales of the receptacle. 



4. EPIDENDRUM OCHRACEUM. Yellow Ochre coloured. [Sot. Reg. 26, 



ORCUIDACEiC. GYNANDRIA NONANDRIA. 



A native of several parts of tropical America, Messrs. Lodiges's possess it, 

 and received it from Oaxaca, Mr. Skinner discovered it in Guatamala. 

 Captain Sutton brought a plant from thence to this country, and presented it 

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