42 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



fiuest. It has the foliage of the true 0. cebolleta, but its flowers form dense 

 panicles, three feet long, of large, showy, rich yellow and brown spotted flowers. 

 Each blossom is about an inch and a half across. It is a very handsome 

 species, well worth growing in every collection. 



Oncidium Insi.eayii.— Mr. Insleay's. (Pax. Mag. Bot. 265.) Orchidaces. 

 Gynandria Monandria. From Mexico, introduced by George Barker, Esq., 

 Springfield, near Birmingham, and it is named after the intelligent gardener 

 there. The flowers are produced in a raceme, c;ich being about four inches 

 across. Sepals and petals yellow streaked, and marked with a chocolate brown. 

 Labellum yellow, spotted with scarlet. It is a very beautiful species, well 

 meriting a place in every collection. 



Otochiltjs fusca. — Brownish-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3921.) Orchidace*. 

 Gynandria Monandria. A native of Nepal, growing on the trunks of trees. It 

 has bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flowers are produced on a 

 raceme about three inches long. Each blossom is about three quarters of an 

 inch across, of a faint flesh colour. 



Podotheoa gnaphalioides. — Cudweed Podotheca. (Bot. Mag. 3920.) Com- 

 positae. Syngenesia yEqualis. A native of the Swan River colony, and has 

 been raised by Messrs. Dickson and Sons, nurserymen, Edinburgh, with whom 

 it bloomed profusely in 1841. It is an annual plant,much branched at the base. 

 The flowers are produced at the. extremities of the shoots in spheroidal heads, 

 yellow. 



Stuartia pentagynia.— Five-styled. (Bot. Mag. 3918.) Ternstroemiacea. 

 Monadelphia Polyandria. This hardy shrub, from the mountains of Carolina 

 and Georgia, has long been introduced into this country, but is not grown as 

 extensively as it merits. It grows to eight or ten feet high, with a pretty green 

 smooth foliage, similar in form and size to a May Duke Cherry. The flowers 

 are of a pretty cream colour, something in the way of a Magnolia, each blossom 

 being about four inches across. It deserves a place in every shrubbery. 



PLANTS NOTICED IN BOTANICAL REGISTER NOT FIGURED. 



Spirea fissa.— A hardy shrub, something like S. ariaefolia, but less showy- 

 The flowers are produced in loose panicles, and altogether it forms a handsome 

 bush, well meriting a place in every shrubbery. 



Epidendrum polyanthum. — From Guatemala, and has bloomed in the garden 

 of the London Horticultural Society. The flowers are large and of a rich salmon 

 colour, and are produced in a many-flowered panicle, loaded with close-set nod- 

 ding racemes. 



Eiiia profusa. — Orchideae. From Ceylon ; it has bloomed in the Syon 

 Gardens. It produces numerous racemes about a foot long, clothed with its light 

 green flowers. 



Saccolobium ochraceum. — Orchidea;. From Ceylon. It has bloomed with 

 Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are small, of an ochre-yellow colour, marked with 

 bands of a dull red. 



Barkeria Lindi.eyana. — Orchideae. From Costa Rica, and has bloomed in 

 Mr. Bateman's collection at Knypersly, in Cheshire. It has very much the 

 appearance of Epidendrum Skinneri. The flowers are of a rich deep purple, the 

 lip being the deepest colour, except the middle, which is nearly white. 



Oncidium peugameneum. — Orchideoe. From Guatemala, The flowers are 

 produced in a weak loose panicle, about a yard long. Sepals and petals brown, 

 tipped with yellow. The lip is yellow, with a dull brown stain on each side of 

 the base of the middle lobe. 



Oncidium Suttoni. — Orchideae. From Guatemala. The flowers are pro- 

 duced on an erect panicle, three to five in each of the lateral branches. Sepals 

 and petals of a dull olive brown, without any spots, except at the point, which is 

 yellow. The lip has but one dull olive brown spot at the centre of the base. 



