292 NEW AND HARE PLANTS. 



to the flower garden. Pliarbitis, from pharba ; colour. Refering t» the 

 elegance and variety of colours in the flowers. 



6. PODOLOBIUM STAUROPHYLLUM. Cross leaved, {Pax Mag. Bol. 171 . 



LEGUMINOS.E. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SYNONYMS PODOLOBIUM ACQUI- 



FOLIUM. 



The plant is a native of New Holland. It is a highly ornamental green - 

 louse shrubby plant, growing from three to four feet high. It flowers most 

 profusely, each flower is about half an inch across, of a tine rich yellow, hav- 

 ing a deep red streak along the under 6ide of the keel. It has bloomed in 

 the very select collection of W. Bowes, Esqr., Broughton, near Manchester. 

 Podolobium, from podos, a foot, and lobos, a pod. 



7. SCUTELLARIA ALP1NA, var. SANGUINEA. Red Alpine tculleap. 



[Brit. Flow. Card. 399, 

 A hardy perennial plant, whose flower stalks rise to about five or six 

 inches high, each terminating in a large headed spike of flowers, much re- 

 sembling in form those of -the common Prunella vulgaris, The blossoms are 

 of a pretty reddish-purple, it continues in bloom a considerable time. It is 

 a very showy flowering plant, very suitable for a rock work, or edging for 

 a bed or border. It is cultivated at the Birmingham Botanic Garden. Scu- 

 tellaria, from scutella, a little dish or saucer; alluding to the form of the 

 calycine appendage. 



s. MILTONIA SPECTABIL1S, Shouy MiUonia. [Bot. Reg. 



ORCIIIDACJE. VAND.t. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



This very beautiful species would appear to be a native of Brazil, and to 

 have been brought into notice about the same time, both by George Barker, 

 Esq. and Messrs. Loddiges: in the latter collection it flowered during July 

 last. It is allied to and in habit resembles Brassia. The flowers are solitary 

 but very large, of a whitish yellow above, and the lip or sepal of a rosy pur- 

 ple. Dr Liudley observes, I bad promulgated the name of Miltonia spec- 

 tablis previously to hearing that Messrs. Knowles and Westcott had called 

 the plant Machrochillus Tryannus, and as the former name was published 

 a month earlier, the latter will have to give way. 



" The genera Brassia, Miltonia, Cyrtochilum, Odontoglossum, and Onci- 

 dium, are closely related, and no doubt form the nucleus of a group of Van- 

 dea?, the limits of which remain to be ascertained. Of these oncidium has 

 a column with two ears and a distinct lobe; Miltonia, a column with two 

 ears and an entire lip, partially united to the base ; Odontoglossum, a wing- 

 ed column and entire lip, partially united to it at the base ; Cyrtochilum, a 

 winged column and a distinct and entire lip ; and finally, Brassia has a co- 

 lumn that is neither winged nor eared, and a distinct entire lip. 1 say 

 nothing of the tubercular process upon the lip of all the genera, for I do not 

 see how they will serve with any certainty to distinguish them. Moreover, 

 Oncidium and cyrtochilum should have ungulate (narrowed part at the base, 

 as in the pink and the carnation) sepals (floral leaves) and petals, while all 

 the other n-enera have them sessile. While, however, such are the real dis- 

 tinction between these genera, I am by no means sure that all the species 

 now stationed under them are rightly placed. But that is a question I can- 

 not enter into at this time.'' 



As standing connected with the above, the following species are also no- 

 ticed :— ..... 



Cyrtochilum Karwinshii — said to be a noble species, with flower two in- 

 ches and a half in diameter ; flowers blotched with brown on a yellow ground. 



Odontoglossum Anguslatuin — three and a half inches in diameter, Leauti- 



