16 NEW OK RARE PLANTS. 



7. Epidendrum conopseum, Florida Epidendrum. (Bot. Mag. 3457.) Tho 

 plant is rare in our collections of Orchidea:. It is the only Orchidcou3 para- 

 site yet discovered in the United States. Tt was sent to the Liverpool 

 Botanic Garden, by Mr. Gordon, from North Carolina, where it had been 

 found growing upon the branch of a Magnolia grandiflora. The flowers are 

 small, not very interesting, of a greenish-yellow colour. Gynandria Mo- 

 nandria. Orchidere. Epidendrum, from Epi, upon, and dendron, a tree 

 referring to the habitat of the plant. 



8. Eulophia iuridtt. {Bot. Reg. 1821.) This Orchideous plant was sent 

 into this country from Sierra Leone, where it grows in abundance upon the 

 trunks of trees. It is cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collection 

 it blooms nearly the whole year. The flowers are small, numerous, and 

 produced on a branching scape. 



9. Galatella punctata, Dotted leaved. (Rot. Reg. 18I8J Synonyms, G. 

 intermedia, Aster punctatus, A. desertorum. A native of Hungary, conse- 

 quently quite hardy in this country. It is an herbaceous plant, growing two 

 feet high, producing numerous aster-like flowers, of a purplish blue colour, 

 in a corymbous head. The plant forms a compact bush by its numerous 

 steins. Syngenesia Polygainia Frustranea. Asteracece. 



10. Lupinus bimaculatus, Twin-spotted Lupine. [Brit. Flow. Gard.) A 

 native of Mexico, a hardy perennial plant, cultivated by Dr. Neh.l, at Ca- 

 non Mills, near Edinburgh. The flowers are blue marked, with a yellow 

 spot. The flower stems rise about a foot high, each producing a terminal 

 raceme of flowers about two inches long. Diadclphia Decandria. Legu- 

 miuosa?. 



11. Macradenia triandria, Triandrous long-gland. (Bot. Reg. 1815.) 

 An Orchideous plant, from Surinam, and cultivated in the collection of the 

 London Horticultural Society. The flowers are small, produced in a pen- 

 dent raceme, of from six to eight upon each. Each flower is of a blood- 

 colour in the inside, and greenish outside. Gynandria Monandria. Or- 

 chidea;. Macradenia, from mahros, long, and adne, a gland; referring to 

 the long caudicula of the pollen ma: 



12. Ochranthe argula, Fine-toothed leaved. (Bot. Reg. 1819. _) This 

 greenhouse plant was once cultivated in the Garden of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society, where it had been received from China, its native country. 

 It. blossomed once and then died. It does not appear to have been increased, 

 and is probably lost to this country for the present. The foliage is large, of 

 a fine green. The flowers are produced in a terminal thryse, small, white. 

 Penlandria Trigynia. Hypericacea! Anomalae. Ochranthe, from ochros, 

 pale, and anlhos, flower. 



13. Oxalis piotta. This very showy flowering species, it is said, is a native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, and is cultivated in the garden of Mrs. Marryatt, 

 Wimbledon. This plant produces a profusion of flowers, rising about two 

 inches high. Each flower is about an inch across, and of a fine salmon 

 colour, having a rosy-red circle near the centre. This plant is a valuable 

 acquisition; it is a frame perennial, blooming from .Tune to August. It will 

 flourish well in the open border in summer; and producing blossoms so 

 large and in so copious a manner, renders it a most lovely object. Decan- 

 dria Fentagynia. Oxalidacese. 



1 •. PMcelia congesta, Cluster-flowered. (Hot. Mag. 3452.) This very neat 

 flowering plant was sent from Texas, by the late Mr. Drummond, and has 

 bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is a greenhouse annual of 

 considerable beauty and gracefulness. The flowers are produced in corym- 

 bous racemes, of a bright purple-blue colour, each about the size of what is 

 commonly called Forget-me-Not. We think it will do equally well in the 

 open borders, in summer, in warm situations, and will be a valuable acqui- 

 sition to the flower garden. Pentandria Monogynia. Hydrophyllea?. Pha^ 

 celia, from Pltakelos, a bundle ; alluding to the crowded quantity of 

 flowers. 



