G4 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



son, with a yellow slain up the middle. The contrast of the striking colouis is 

 beautiful. 



Lycaste Skinneri. Mr. Skinner's. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Orchidacese, Gy- 

 nandria Monandria. Lycaste is a new genus separated from Maxillaria. The 

 present species hag bloomed in the fine collection of the Rev. John Clowes, of 

 Brcughton Hall. Each blossom is about six inches across ; sepals pure white, 

 with a faint tinje of crimson at the base ; the petals of a more rosy hue, having 

 the tips covered with spots and streaks of brilliant carmine. The column is pure 

 vihite at the point, mottled with spots of crimson at the base. It is a splendid 

 species, well meriting a place iu every collection. 



Spirea Reevksiana. Mr. Reeves' Spirea. (Bot. Reg. 10.) Rosacese, Ico- 

 sandria Polvgynia; Synonym, S corymbosa. It is a handsome hardy sub-ever- 

 green, a native of China, growing about four feet high, and forming a pretty 

 spreading bush. It blooms very freely in the early part of summer. The 

 flowers are produced in terminal heads of near twenty in each, white, each blos- 

 som being near half an inch across. It is a very pretty addition for the shrub- 

 bery. It can be procured very cheap, and readily increases by cuttings. 



Stigmaphyi.i.on jatrophjefolium. Jatropha-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 7.) Mal- 

 pighiaceae, Decaudria Trigynia. A native of Brazil, which will probably do in 

 this couutry in a warm greenhouse ; it has been received in the neighbuurhood 

 of Liverpool, and there flourished in a moist stove. It is a very pretty climbing 

 plant, the leaves being beautifully cut at the edges, and of a bright green. The 

 flowers are produced in heads of ten or more in each. A separate flower is near 

 an inch across, yellow. The flower-stems proceed from the axils of the leaves. 



Tetrankma Mexicanum. Mexican Tetranema. (Bot. Mag. 4070.) Scro- 

 phularina?, Didynamia Angiospermia ; Synonym Pentstemon Mexicanus. A 

 native of Mexico, and appears to flourish well when grown either iu the green- 

 house or stove. The plant, when without flowering 3tems, has somewhat the ap- 

 pearance of a Gloxinia. The flower-stems rise about six or eight inches high ; 

 the flowers are produced in capitate umbels, of twenty or more in each, of a pielty 

 rosy-purple, mottled with white. Each flower is about three-quarters of an inch 

 long in the tubidar portion, and half an inch across the mouth. It is an in- 

 teresting and pretty plant : and what renders it additionally so is, that it blooms 

 during winter, viz. from November to May, and is very ornamental through the 

 entire period. It is in the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and 

 most probably in the principal nursery establishments. 



plants noticed in the botanical register not figured. 



Ansellia apricana. When Mr. Ansell, who went with the Niger Expedi- 

 tion, was ill at Fernando Po, he discovered this new genus growing on the steins 

 of the Oil Palm. It is an Orchideous Epiphyte, bearing a terminal panicle 

 of flowers as large as those of Vauda Roxburghii, with dark spots on a pale 

 ground. A living specimen has not yet been received in this country. 



Maxillahia Meleaqris. A stemless species, of little beauty. The flowers 

 are of a yellowish ground, spotted with purple. It is in the collections of Mr. 

 Brocklehurst and Messrs. Loddiges'. 



Trochetia grandifi.oka. A handsome stove shrub, a native of the Mau- 

 ritius, and is in the collection at Sion House Gardens. It has large oblong 

 leaves, dark green, but the underside is covered with brown hairy stars. The 

 flowers are large, pendulous, white, and are produced in threes. 



Oncidium obi.jnoatum. In Messrs. Loddiges's collection. The petals are 

 flat, not wavy, of a clear yellow, with a few brown marks. It is a very handsome 

 species. 



Maxii.laria concava. Very similar in appearance to M. bractescens, the 

 flowers being a little smaller. It is in the collection of the London Horticultural 

 Society. 



