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ing plant. It is well worth a situation in every greenhouse and flower garden. 

 Diplopeltis, from diplos, double, and pelte, a buckler. 



9. Epidendrum cepiforme, Onion Rooted. (Bot. Mag. 3765.) Orchidese. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Sent to this country from Mexico in May, 1838, to the 

 Woburn collection. The flowers are produced very numerously in large pani- 

 cles, which extend three feet high ; sepals and petals of a tawny orange colour ; 

 lip of a yellowish green, beautifully streaked with red veins; and at the base a 

 large white disk. 



10. Gastrolobium cordatum, a very neat growing plant, having roundish 

 cordate leaves, producing numerous flowers on long racemes : they are of a fine 

 golden yellow, streaked with brown. It is a native of the Swan River colony. 



11. Grammatophyixum multiflouum, Many-flowered Letter-leaf. (Bot. Reg. 

 65.) Orchidese. Gynandria Monandria. Discovered by Mr. Cuming in Ma- 

 nilla, and by that gentleman sent to England. It has bloomed in the fine col- 

 lection of Mr. Batenian. The flowers are numerously produced on a long erect 

 raceme. The specimen of Mr. Bateman's had a raceme two feet long, having 

 forty-eight flowers, each about an inch and a half in diameter ; sepals and petals 

 olive brown, with a green streak up the centre and at the edge ; lip yellow, 

 streaked with reddish brown. It is a very interesting species. Qrnmmatophrjllum, 

 from gramma, a letter, and phylton, a leaf; alluding to the marking of the leaves 

 of the flower. 



12. Johnsonia hirta. (App. to Bot. Reg.) A native of the Swan River 

 colony. It appears to belong to the GramineEe of the Hexandria class, the scaly- 

 like ; is of a fine rosy carmine colour, each edged and tipped with white. The 

 figure gives the flower stem as growing about eight inches high. 



13. Lasiandka petiolata, Petiolated. (Bot. Mag. 3766.) Meiastomacese. 

 Decandria Monogynia. It is probably a native of Brazil It was sent from the 

 Butanic Garden, Berlin, to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where, in the plant 

 stove, it bloomed very freely in June and July of 1839. It is a slmibby plant, 

 growing five feet high, having long weakly branches, densely covered with hairs. 

 The foliage has much the appearance of a Melastoma. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in laige panicles, each bloom being about an inch and a half across, very 

 much resembling a large flower of a Solatium, of a beautiful lilac, shaded with 

 darker colour. Lasiamtra , from lottos, hairy, and aner, aiidros, applied to the 

 baity filaments of some species. 



14. Laxmannta qrandiflora. (App. to Bot. Reg.) A native of the Swan River 

 colony, having foliage like the common Thrift, from the midst of which spring 

 up numerous flower stems, rising about five or six inches high. Each flower is 

 about three-quarters of an inch across, like a small looseish double daisy ; white 

 on the upper side, slightly tinged with sulphur at the under side. 



15. Pentlandia miniata, vak. 2, Sullivanica j Red-lead-coloured Commo- 

 dore Sullivan's variety. (Bot. Reg. 68.) Amaryllidaceae. Hexandria Monogynia. 

 Commodore Sullivan obtained bulbs of this pretty variety during his command 

 on the west coast of South America in 1837, and the plant has bloomed with 

 Mrs. Sullivan at Falmouth. The first variety was sent from Peru to the Hon. 

 and Rev. W. Herbert, under the name of Red Narcis*sus,-by J. B. Pent laud, Esq. 

 H.B.M.'s Consul-General, and in compliment to that gentleman the genus is so 

 named. The flower stem rises about a foot high, and the scape contains from 

 four to six flowers. The flower is of a tubular form, bellying, the mouth divided 

 into six segments : it is near an inch and a ball long, the mouth being about 

 five-eighths of an inch across, and of a fine red-had colour. 



16. Tui.ipa mal.eoi.ens, Strong Smelling. (Bot. Reg. 66.) Liliacea. Hex- 

 andria Monogynia. Found near Florence in the fields and vineyards. The spe- 

 cies is single-flowered ; but a double variety, it is said, is grown in the gardens 

 there. The (lower of the present plant has a disagreeable scent; it is of a car- 

 mine red, having a tawny coloured outside, with a dark eye ; inside surmounted 

 by a white circle between the dark and the carmine red body colour. It is 

 scarce in this country, but is in the collection of the Hon. W. F. Strangways, at 

 Abbotsbury, 



