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Francoa ramosa. — White flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3824.) Francoaceae. 

 Octandria Monogynia. Discovered at Valparaiso by Mr. Cuming. It is as 

 hardy as the now well-known F. appendiculata, adorned with spikes of pretty 

 white flowers. 



Galeandra Baueri, Bauer's Casquewort. — (Bot. Reg. 49.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. Originally discovered in French Guiana by Martin, 

 more recently by Mr. Ross, the Collector of George Barker, Esq., at Kisatipa, 

 ten leagues from Melacatapec. The flowers are produced in terminal racemes, 

 each blossom being a little more than two inches across. Sepals and petals of 

 a yellowish-green, slightly tinged with brown. Labellum whitish, tinged with 

 purple outside, yellowish inside with a deep purple lip. 



Monociianthus Longikoi.ius. — Long leaved Monk flower. (Bot. Mag. 

 3819.) Orchidaceae. Gynandria Monandria. (Synonym Catasetum longifolium.) 

 Introduced from Demarara, and bloomed in the collection of T. Brocklehuist, 

 Esq., the Fence, near Macclesfield. The flower scape is pendent, bearing nume- 

 rous flowers, each flower being near two inches across. Sepals and petals of a 

 rosy purplish-green. Lip of a most beautiful rich orange outside, dappled with 

 orange-red, the edge of the mouth each side having a deep reddish fiinge, and 

 at the apex a shorter fringe of a deep blood colour. It is a very interesting 

 and pretty flowering species. 



Passiflora verrucifera. — Warted Passion flower. (Bot. Mag. 52.) Pas- 

 sifloraceae. Monadelphia Pentandria. A greenhouse climber, very probably a 

 native of Brazil. It is very like P. edulis and P. incarnata. The flowers are 

 curious and pretty, like all the tribe, but want richness of colour. They are 

 white with a deep purple corona. 



Rodriguezia crispa. — Crisped sweet-scented. (Bot. Reg. 54.) Orchidaceae. 

 Gynandria Monandria. From the Organ Mountains of Brazil. It has bloomed 

 in the fine collection of Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are produced in a 

 dense raceme, each blossom being about an inch across, of a dull sea-green, 

 edged with a yellowish colour, slightly crisped. They are most delightfully 

 fragrant, resembling the perfume of Primroses. 



PART III. 

 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Exhibited. — A fine specimen of Russellia juncca was shown by Mr. Davis, 

 pardoner to Sir Simon Clark, Bart., F.H.S., presenting a mass of bloom about 

 three yards round, and four to five feet high. Mr. Davis also sent a large Pro- 

 vidence pineapple, weighing 91b. 10oz., a basket of Muscat of Alexandria grapes, 

 and a dish of peaches in three varieties. 



A collection of plants from Mrs. Lawrence contained Peristeiia pendula, a 

 new species of Lselia, Curcuma Roscoeana, Catasetum tridentatum, a new var. 

 iif Catasetum, Oncidium papilio, Peristeria ceiina, Epiileudrum ciliare, E. flori- 

 bunduiDj Erica speciosa, E. verticulata, and E. Aitonia. 



From Mr. James Rigby, of Stanhope Nursery, Old Brompton, a new variety 

 of Catasetum, with flowers of a pale green. 



From Mr. George Phillips, gardener to the Misses Trevor, of Tingrith, mar 



