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Plants noticed in Botanical Register not figured. 



Frittii.laria Kotschyana. — Discovered near Mount Elbtirz, and sent to the 

 Dean of Manchester by M. Kotschy. Ihe flowers green and purple, with 

 yellow anthers. 



Hymenocali.is bistubata. — Discovered by Mr. Hartweg, but uncertain 

 where. It has bloomed in the collection of the Dean of Manchester at Spof- 

 forth. 



Dendrobium chlorops. — From Bombay, and has lately bloomed at Messrs. 

 Loddiges. The flowers are of a pale nankin colour, having the base of the lip 

 of a pea-green colour. 



Catasetum ochuaceum. — From Bogota, sent by Mr. Hartweg to the London 

 Horticultural Society. The flowers are of a deep yellow-ochre colour, it is much 

 in the way of C. luridum. 



Bolbophylmjm cHEiRi. — From Manilla, and has just bloomed at Messrs. 

 Loddiges. The flowers are of a clear green colour, with brown stripes. Each 

 blossom is about an inch and a half long. 



Vanda parti f i ora. — From Bombay, and has bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges. 

 The flowers are small, ochre-coloured, having the lip sprinkled with purple spots_ 



Spathoglottis plicata. — From Peuang. It has bloomed with Messrs. Lod- 

 diges. The flowers are of a light purple. 



Anemone gotaniana. — A pretty Alpine plant from Nepal, and which has 

 bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. The flowers are 

 white, having yellow anthers. It is a hardy herbaceous plant. 



Epidendrum Hanburii. — Received from Mexico by R. Hanbury, Esq., of 

 Stamford Hill. The sepals and petals are purple, the lip rose with crimson 

 veins. 



Physurus pjctus. — From Brazil. It has bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. 

 The flowers are small, white, and have a streak of dark brown down the middle 

 of each sepal and petal. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERY. 



On Heating a Greenhouse. — As an old subscriber to your Fi.oricui.turai. 

 Cabinet. 1 should feel obliged by your informing me the best mode to be 

 adopted for warming a greenhouse of the dimensions of 13 feet by 13 feet during 

 the winter season, as I am about erecting a house, and feel a difficulty what 

 course to adopt, especially after having read in your July number the objections 

 against tank heating, that being the mode I had intended adopting. I do not 

 keep a regular gardener, only au occasional one, therefore wish to adopt that 

 plan that will answer the purpose best, and I am quite a novice as to which 

 would be best, there being so many various opinions. Your noticing this in 

 your next number will oblige, 



Blackheath-terrace, July 6, 1844. A Suburban Novice. 



[We have seen the tank system in operation in various forms, and the persons 

 who had the management of them reported to us their opinions; and for green- 

 houses we are confident the best pl.in our correspondent can adopt is to have what 

 is termed hot-water-pipe heating, by which a most beneficial dry temperature 

 can be maintained; and in order to have a desired moist temperature at certain 

 seasons, a gutter, running entire the length of the piping, or at intervals, a yard 



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