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near Vera Cruz, also at Guatemala. Mr. Skinner sent it from the latter place, 

 and calls it a splendid white flower, with a most extraordinary strong aromatic 

 fragrance. Sepals and petals are of a yellowish green ; lip white, with the end 

 tinged with yellow. It has not proved to be so fragrant in this country as ex- 

 pected by Mr. Skimmer's note of the plant. The plant is found as easy to cul- 

 tivate as other of the Mexican Orchidaceae, but has not usually flowered freely ; 

 but in the garden of the London Horticultural Society a method has been 

 adopted with it.that induces it to bloom most satisfactorily. Dr. Liudley gives a 

 note relative to it as furnished the learned Doctor by Mr. Fortune, under whose 

 management it appears the Orchideae are at the Gardens ; it is as follows : — 

 " At the base of every leaf there is a bud, and from the leaf itself the flower 

 springs, which, in mauy instances, proves abortive, apparently owing to the 

 luxuriance of the bud at its base. As a proof of this — after many fruitless 

 attempts to make this plant flower — one of those buds was removed, which 

 allowed the sap intended for the nourishment of that bud to go to the formation 

 of the flower, and the result was the production of a fine one. In the following 

 season the plant was covered with flowers, acting upon the same principle, 

 though not at the expense of its buds. This was done by keeping it dry, and not 

 allowing the buds at the base to grow much until the flower stems were so far 

 advanced as to be out of danger." This mode of treatment, adopted with other 

 shy flowering kinds, would probably be equally successful. 



17. Catleya Aclandi.t.. — Lady Acland's. (Bot. Reg. 48.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. This beautiful flowering species was received from 

 Brazil In 1839, and under the skilful management of Mr. Craggs, the gardener 

 to Sir Thomas Acland, at Killerton, where the plant had been sent to, it has 

 bloomed. The sepals and petals are of an olive green, spotted and striped with 

 dark reddish-brown. The labellum is of a beautiful violet purple colour, having 

 towards the origin a tinge of white and a small spot of yellow. Each flower is 

 about three inches across. 



18. Cebeus latifrons. — Broad stemmed. (Bot. Mag. 3813.) From the 

 fine collection of Cacteae, grown in the Nursery of Messrs. Mackie and Co., 

 Norwich. It is a tall growing plant, producing its flowers from the edges of the 

 broad and flat stems. The flower is very large, the tubular part being six or 

 more inches long, green, slightly tinged with purple. The petals are of a pure 

 white, the mouth of the flower being about six inches across. It flowers in 

 August. 



19. Gesneria mollis. — Soft-leaved. (Bot. 'Mag. 3815.) This species has 

 been introduced as long back as 1819, but is not as generally grown as it cer- 

 tainly deserves. The flower-stems rise to about half a yard high, terminating 

 in umbels of flowers from five to ten in each. The flower is of a fine red, having 

 the mouth and limb of a pretty orange colour, spotted with red, each blossom 

 being upwards of an inch long. 



20. Lcklia autumnalis. — Autumnal. (Bot. Mag. 3317.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. (Synonym Bletia autumnalis.) Plants of this beautiful 

 flowery species were sent by Mr. Parkinson to the Woburn Collection in 1838, 

 where it has bloomed under the skilful management of Mr. Forbes. The scape 

 rises to two feet high, terminating with from two to four large fragrant and 

 showy flowers, principally of a fine bright-rose colour. Lip whitish at the sides, 

 tinged too with purple and greenish yellow. Each flower is about four inches 

 across. 



21. Mai.va purpuuata. — Purple-flowered mallow. (Bot. Mag. 3814.) Mal- 

 vaceae. Monadelphia Polyandria. A native of Chili, and a handsome, hardy 

 perennial, blooming in this country from June to August. The flowers are soli- 

 tary, but form a pretty corymbous head. They are of a pretty purple-lilac colour, 

 lighter at the centre. Each flower is about an inch across. It is a very pretty 

 border plant, well deserving a place in the flower garden. 



22. Stylidium fasciculatum. — Fascicled-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 3816.) Sty- 

 lidea\ Gyuaudria Monandria. In the Glasgow Botanic Garden this beautiful 



