258 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



plants as this and G. striatum, palustre, sylvaticum, &c, lose their bushy form, 

 and in proportion bloom profuse. 



Maxili.aria acltipetai.a. — Sharp-petaled. (Bot. Mag. 39Gf>.) Orchidaeeae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Sent from Central America to the Royal Gardens at 

 Kew, where it has bloomed. The flowers are of a pale orange, spotted and 

 blotched with blood colour. Each flower is a little more than two inches across. 

 The sepals and petals are about a quarter of an inch broad. 



Oncidium uuopbylt.um. — Tail-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 54.) Orchidaeeae. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. From Brazil, and has bloomd ein the collection of Messrs. 

 Loddiges. The leaves are formed like a penknife curved backwards. The 

 flowers are numerously produced on a graceful drooping panicle four feet long; 

 they are of a clear yellow colour. Each blossom is about three-quarters of an 

 inch across. 



Pharbitis ostrina. — Royal purple Gaybine. (Bot. Reg. 51.) Convol- 

 vulaceae. Pentandria Monogynia. The plant was sent from Cuba to Messrs. 

 Loddiges's. It is a beautiful climber, having all the habit of a Batatas. The 

 roots are tuberous, large. The stem grows several yards during summer, blooms 

 profusely, but dies down in winter. The flowers are in form and size similar to 

 Gloxiuia speciosa, when not grown in a vigorous condition, each being about 

 two inches long and one and a half across the mouth ; of a fine rich colour. 

 It is a beautiful flowering climber, well deserving to be in every collection of a 

 warm greenhouse or stove. 



Brownea coccinea. — Scarlet-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3964.) Legumiuosae. 

 Monadelphia Decandria. A native of Jamaica, introduced some years ago, but 

 it appears has not bloomed till recently, a plant having flowered in the Edin- 

 burgh Botanic Garden. The plant is shrubby, ten feet high. The flowers are 

 produced in bundles, of a brilliant vermilion rose colour, pendulous ; the termi- 

 nal ones expanding first, and the others in succession downwards. The corolla 

 is funnel-shaped, about an inch and a quarter long. 



Malta campanulata. — Bell-flowered Mallow. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Malvaceae. 

 Monadelphia Polyandiia. In a former number we noticed this pretty species, 

 having seen it blooming profusely in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson's, Edge- 

 ware-road. The flowers are exceedingly neat, of a depressed bell (or cup) shape, 

 of a pale lilac colour. Each blossom is about an inch across. The plant is 

 sub-shrubby, and blooms very freely all the summer. It is equally adapted for 

 the open border or the greenhouse. 



Lai.aok iiove.efoi.ia. — Hovea-like leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Leguminosae. 

 Monadelphia Decandria. Several months back we noticed this pretty flowering 

 plant, seeing it in bloom in the collection of Mr. Low, Clapton Nursery. It is a 

 greenhouse plant, an evergreen shrub. The branches being weakly are rather 

 straggling. This, no doubt, may easily be remedied by pinchinglthe heads off. 

 The flowers are axillary, in long spikes. The vexilluvn of a bright yellow, and 

 the wings and keel of a reddish purple. Each blossom is about three quarters of 

 an inch across. The flowers of the present species are much livelier than those 

 of L. ornata. It deserves a place in every collectiou of greenhouse plants. 



Aerides crispum. — (Sir Richard Brooke's Air Plant.) (Bot. Reg. 55.) Or- 

 chidaeeae. Gynandria Monandria. This beautiful plant has recently bloomed 

 in the collection of Sir Richaid Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory. The size of 

 each flower is about two inches across. It is of a beautiful white, except the lip, 

 which is brilliantly tipped with rose. It is only in the collection at Norton 

 Priory in this country, but deserves to be in every one. The flowers are pro- 

 duced on racemes about ten inches long. 



Dendrobium macranthum. — Large flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3970.) Orchidaeeae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. From Manilla to Messrs. Loddiges. It has recently 

 bloomed in the collection of D. Llewelyn, Esq., of Penleggar. The flower stems 

 are long, leaf}'. The flowers are produced at the base of the leaves, solitary. 

 Each bloom is five inches across, of a beautiful lilac colour. The lip inside of a 

 deep rich chocolate. 



