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Cattleya granulosa, var. Russei.iana. The Duke op Bedford's Rough- 

 i.ipped. (Bot. Reg- 59.) Orchideae. Gynandria Monaadria. It is a variety 

 of the Guatemala C. granulosa, imported into this country by Mr. Skinner to the 

 collection of the Duke of Bedford. Sepals and petals green, spotted with red. 

 Labellum. towards the origin, is yellow, with red spots, and the broad termina- 

 tion white. Each blossom is about five inches across. 



Denduobium Kingianum. Captain King's. (Bot. Reg.) Orchideae. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. Received by Messrs. Loddiges in a collection of New 

 Holland plants. The flowers are produced in an erect spike. Each flower is 

 about one inch across, beautiful pink, spotted with crimson. 



Genista (Teline) Spachiana. Mr. Spach's Genista. (Bot. Mag. 4195.) 

 Leguminosae. Diadelphia Decandria. This pretty flowering plant is a native 

 of the Canary Islands, found on the north-west mountains of TenerifFe. It is a 

 shrubby plant, which will probably prove hardy in the warmer parts of this 

 country. The flowers are produced profusely, in pendant terminal heads, of a 

 bright yellow colour; it well deserves cultivation, being very showy. 



Hebkci.adus bipi.orus. Twin-fi.owered. (Bot. Mag. 4192.) Solaniae. 

 Pentaudria Munogynia. This most beautiful flowering plant is a native of the 

 Peruvian mountains. Messrs. Veitch's, of Exeter, have lately received it. It is 

 stated to he a greenhouse shrub, blooming very freely. The flowers are droop- 

 ing; much like some of the drooping flowered Corraeas. Each blossom is about 

 one inch long; tube, purple, with green segments. 



Ixora odorata. Fragrant. (Bot. Mag. 4191.) Rubiaceae Tttrandia. 

 Monofrynia. (Synonym Ixora Brunonis.) It is a native of Madagascar, and is 

 in the collection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. It was ex- 

 hibited at the London Floral Shows during the present year, and much admired. 

 The leaves of this noble and highly fragrant shrub, Sir William Hooker ob- 

 serves, vie in size, and almost in firmness of texture, with those of the Indian 

 Rubber-tree. The flowers are produced in large spreading panicles, each 

 panicle being a foot or mure in diameter ; the branches being of a deep red 

 purple colour. Each blossom is about five inches long; the tube, red below, 

 white above, and the floral buds white, tipped with bright rose. The spreading 

 segments of the flower, at first white, change to a rich buff as they become old. 

 The plant exhibited at Chiswick Show by Messrs. Lucombe, Piuce, and Co., 

 was about a yard high. It deserves a place in every hothouse. 



Jacauanda tomentosa. Tomentose. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Bignoniaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. (Synonym Bignonia Mauritiensis.) It is a native 

 of South America, and grows to a moderate sized tree. It can be cultivated in 

 this country, so as to bloom in the stove or warm greenhouse, in a dwarf state; 

 a plant about two to three feet high. It has bloomed very freely in a dwarf 

 state at the nursery of Messrs. Knight and Perry, of Chelsea, near London. 

 The flowers are tubular; each about the size of a common foxglove, of a pretty 

 rosy-lilac colour; they are produced in small lateral panicles of two or three in 

 each ; and, as there are very many of such lateral ones, they unitedly form a 

 fine headed, spike-like, panicle. It well merits a place in every situation it 

 can be successfully grown in. The plant may be purchased at a very reason- 

 able price. 



Lycasie Fui.vescens. Tawny floweued. (Bot. Mag. 4193.) Orchideae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Received by Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton Hall, 

 near Manchester, from Columbia. Each of the flower-stems are from nine 

 inches to a foot high, one flowered. The sepals and petals are of a brownish 

 yellow, and the lip of a rich orange colour. A separate flower is about five 

 inches across. 



Onciuium incuuvum. Curve petai.led. (Bot. Reg. 64.) Orchideae. Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. This very beautiful and rare species was first observed in 

 bloom in this country in the collection of George Barker, Esq., of Birmingham. 

 The flowers are produced in a long, erect, and even branched panicle. Sepals 

 ami petals white, with banded stripes of rich rosy red. Lip, white, with a spot 

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