222 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



an inch* long. The limb (mouth of the flower) is five-parted, about three eighths 

 across. It is said that the flower is of a bright carmine. It is a pretty and 

 interesting greenhouse plant, well deserving cultivation. 



MtcrtosTYLis histionantha. Sail-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 4103.) Orchi- 

 daceae. Gynandria Monandria. A very remarkable terrestrial orchideous plant, 

 a native of Columbia. It has bloomed in the collections at Kew and the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Regent's Park, London. The flowers are produced in a com- 

 pact concave umbel, of a brownish green colour. 



Odontoglossum pulchellum. The Elegant. (Bot. Mag. 4104.) Orchi- 

 deae. Gynandria Monandria. A native of Guatemala. It has bloomed with 

 Mr. Bateman, as well as at Kew. The flower scape is a foot long; the flowers 

 are produced in a rather loose spike or raceme, of ten or twelve in each. The 

 blossoms are of a pure white, excepting there being a red spot on a yellow ground 

 at the base of the labellum. The flowers are very delicately beautiful. 



SlPHOCAMPYLUS LANTANIFOLIUS. LaNTAN A- LEAVED. (Bot. Mag. 4105.) Lo- 



beliaceae. Pentandria Monogynia. Collected in Caraccas. It is an erect 

 shrubby plant, which requires a warm greenhouse or coolish stove. The flowers 

 are produced numerously, in a corymbous raceme. Each blossom is about two 

 inches long. Inside the tube flesh-colour, outside of a rich rose shaded with red. 

 It is a pretty-looking plant, blooming in the early spring months, and is easily 

 propagated by cuttings. 



Stenomesson Hartiveggii. Mr. Hartwegs. (Bot. Reg. 42.) Amarylli- 

 dacese. Hexandria Monogynia. Found by Mr. Hartweg, at Hacienda del Ixo, 

 in the province of Quito, at the height of 11,800 feet above the sea. The flower- 

 stem rises a foot high ; each produces two pendant blossoms, of a bright orange 

 colour. Each blossom is about an inch long, and three quarters across the 

 mouth. It has bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 



Mautynia lutea. Yellow-flowered. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Pedaliacea?. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. From Brazil to the Dean of Manchester, in whose 

 greenhouse collection at Spofforth it has bloomed. It is an annual plant, 

 branching, growing half a yard high. Each branch is terminaled by a large 

 clustered head of flowers, nearly the size and form of the common wild Foxglove. 

 They are of a rich orange-yellow colour, spotted with red. We saw it in bloom 

 at Mr. Lowe's, of Clapton Nursery. 



Jacaranda mimosifolia. Mimosa-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Bignoniaceae. 

 Didynamia Angiospermia. A native of Brazil. It is a beautiful trumpet- 

 flowered plant. The blossoms are produced in large terminal panicles, drooping. 

 Each blossom is nearly two inches long, and three quarters across the mouth, of 

 a beautiful blue colour. Plants can be made to bloom when not more than six 

 inches, a foot, or half a yard high, as at pleasure, by striking the terminal por- 

 tions of the lateral branches. It well deserves a place in every plant stove, its 

 large panicled heads of blue flowers being very beautiful. 



Dendhobium Dalhodsieanlm. Lady Dalhousie's. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Or- 

 chideae. Gynandria Monandria. Sent from Calcutta Botanic Garden to 

 Chatsworth, where it has bloomed, as also with Messrs. Loddiges. The flower- 

 stem rises a yard high. The flowers are produced in a drooping raceme of from 

 eight to twelve in each. A separate blossom is near four inches across. Sepals 

 and petals, of a pale rosy-pink near to the margin, and the rest of a delicate 

 yellowish white. Labellum boat-shaped, the tip part white, yellowish towards 

 the base ; and on each side the base there is a large dark spot peculiarly striking. 

 It is a very noble flowering species, which blooms in the Calcutta garden in the 

 dry season, which circumstance points out its treatment in this country. 



