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Oncidium ornithorhttnchum. — Bird's beak Oncidium. (Bot. Mag. 3912.) 

 Orchideae. Gynandria Monogynia. A native of Mexico and Guatemala, 

 where it grows on very elevated mountains. Mr. Skinner sent plants of it to 

 J. Bateman, Esq.. of Knyperslv> with whom it has bloomed. The flowers are 

 produced very numerously on a drooping panicle. They are of a beautiful rose 

 colour, fragrant, and each blossom near an inch across. It is an interesting and 

 pretty species. 



Opuntia decumbkns. — Decumbent. (Bot. Mag. 3914.) Cacteae. Jco?an- 

 dria Monogynia. A native of Mexico, which is growing in the collection at 

 Kew. The flowers are produced in clusters of three or four together, of a pretty 

 yellow cokmr. Each flower is about thiee inches across. 



Opuntia monacantha. — One spined. (Bot. Mag. 391 1.) Cactea?. Icosan- 

 dria Monogynia. In the Kew collection, a native of Brazil. Flowers of a beau- 

 tiful deep orange colour. Each flower is about three inches across. 



Rioidella immaculata. — Spotless Stiffstalk. (Bot. Reg. R8.) Sent to 

 the London Horticultural Society from Guatemala. It is a half-hardy bulb, 

 requiring exactly the same management as theTigridia, to which they are v.ry 

 nearly allied. The flowers are of a deep crimson-red, each being near two 

 inches across. 



Styi.idium recurvum. — Recurved. (Bot. Mag. 3913.) Stylidese. Gynan- 

 dria Monaudiia. A native of the Swan River Colony, growing about six inches 

 hi^h, suffruticose. The flowers are yellow on the outside and reddish orange 

 within. Each bloom being about three quarters of an inch across. We have 

 seen plants of.it in bloom at the nurseries of Mr. Low, of Clapton, and Messrs. 

 Henderson's, Edgeware-road. 



PLANTS NOTICED IN BOTANICAL REGISTER NOT FIGURED. 



Gesneria longifolia. — Sent from Guatemala to the London Horticultural 

 Society by Mr. Hartweg. The stem is stout, two feet high, the leaves being 

 eight inches long. The flowers are an inch long, of a very rich crimson, in the 

 way of G. allagophylla, but is much handsomer. 



Mormodes buccinatou. — Messrs. Loddiges have received a variety that has 

 flowprs of a dull orange spotted with brown, being handsomer than the first 

 kind. 



Centropoqon cordifoi.ius. — A native of Guatemala, sent to the London 

 Horticultural Society by Mr. Hartweg. The flowers are of a deep rose Colour, 

 resembling those of Lobelia Surinamensis. It is a greeuhuuse plant, and has 

 recently bloomed in the garden at Chiswick. 



PLANTS NOTICED AT NURSERIES, &C 



Marianthus, nova species. — Another ornamental greenhouse climbing 

 plant, the flowers of which resemble those of the M. ccerulea punctata, hut are 

 of a deeper blue. It has recently flowered in a cool frame in the collection at 

 the Clapton Nursery. 



NiphjEa oblonga. — A pretty flowering herbaceous plant which has been 

 introduced by the London Horticultural Society, and in conjunction with the 

 beautiful Achimenes has bloomed during the whole of iiutumu. The plant 

 grows to about six inches high, producing its elegant. Gloxinia-like, white 

 flowers, 



Cattlkya Huuusonia; vah. alba. — An exceedingly lovely and showy 

 species, the flower being of a delicate whitish lute, tinged with biush. The lip 

 has a yellow ease. It has recently bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges. 



Oxyi.obium cunkatum. — This is a handsome erect-growing Species, the 

 fltrwers in colour much like those of Gompholubium polymorph urn. It is a neat 

 and prettv flowering plant in the collection of Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nursery. 



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