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PART II. 



LI ST OF N EW A N D RARE PL A N T S. 



Noticed since oar last. 



1. Begonia octopetala, eight petaleil, (Bot. Mag. 3559.) Natural order, 

 Begonfacoe. Linnxan class Moiia^cia. Order, Polyandrias. This is by far 

 the finest flowering species that has yet been introduced into this country, 

 the flowers are as large as those of a single Anemone ; it was sent from Lima 

 in 1835, by J. McLean, Esq. to the Botanic Garden, at Glasgow, where, in tho 

 hot-bouse, it bloomed in October and November, of 1836. It requires a very 

 high temperature to bloom well. The root is tuberous, the plant does not 

 produce a stem. The leaves are upon long foot-sialks a loot and a half 

 long, the leaf is eight or ten inches long, cordate. The flowers are produced 

 in corymbs, of a greenish- white colour: the male blossoms are larger than tho 

 female: each of the former are two inches, or more across. Brgmiu, in com- 

 pliment to M, Begon, a French promoter of Botany. 



2. Bolbophvllum barbioerum. Bearded flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1942.) 

 Orchidaceas. Gvuandria Monandria. A most singularly pretty flowering 

 Orchideous Epiphyte Plant, which has bloomed in the collection of Messrs. 

 Loddiges, at Hackney, in whose collection it bloomed during the last year; 

 it was introduced from Sierra Leone. The flowers are produced upon a ra- 

 ceme of six inches in length, upon each are from sixteen to twenty Cowers ; 

 the petals are very minute, scarcely perceptible ; the lip is long, narrow, 

 fiexuose, closely covered with a yellow felt, within its point there is a deep 

 purple beard of very line hairs, and on the under side is another such beard 

 of tine hairs ; at the end of the lip there is a purple brush of threads, which 

 by a current of air, waving about, to produce a graceful and pretty eu'ect ; 

 the lip, with its yellow felt, purple brushes, and two beards', is jointed so deli- 

 cately that a very slight breath produces a rocking movement, which makes it 

 appear as if some animal nature was possessed by the plant: the Cower is a 

 most extraordinary production. Messrs. Loddiges have another species of 

 similarly curious habits. The plant has something of the appearance of a 

 small kind of Oncidium. Bolbophyllum, 1'rom bolbos, a bulb, and )>hyllum, a 

 leaf; alluding to the leaves arising from a bulb-like stem. 



3. Cp.at*gi'S flava, Rough-barked Thorn, Roseaceae. Icosandria Penta- 

 gynia. (Bot. Reg. 1939.) The single fruited variety « as noticed last month, 

 the present species bears its fruit in clusters of three or four berries upon 

 each, they are of a greenish-yellow. 



4. Chysis aurea, Golden-Cowered. Orchidacese. Gynandria Monandria. 

 (Bot. Reg. 1937.) Another splendid Cowering species of Orchideous Epiphyte, 

 which has been introduced into this country by Mr. Lowe, of Clapton, in 1835 j 

 it was Collected by Mr. Henchman, in the valley of Cumancoa, in Venezuela. 

 Mr. H. describes it as growing suspended by long fibrous roots, from the 

 lateral branches of trees, so that its pseudo-bulbs hanging pendulous wave in 

 the wind, and produces a spike of ten flowers. Mr. Bateman of Knypersley, 

 has a plant of it which has grown very rapidly suspended from a rafter in a pot, 

 planted in turfy-peat and broken potsherds. The stems are in structure very 

 like those of a Cyrtopodium or Catasetum, but its real affinity is to the genua 

 Epidendrum and its section, The flowers are very showy, each about an inch 

 and a half across, the. sepals are white at the lower part of a golden-yellow. 

 Labellum, white with deep red veined stripes. — Fetal? same colour as the 



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