278 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



the branches, of a bright violet-blue, with striking orange-coloured antlers. 

 Each flower is rather more than an inch across. The plant is literally covered 

 with a profusion of its lovely blossoms. The flowers, when dried, is of that 

 character usually termed everlasting. In its native country it grows in sandy 

 soil among shrubs. 



Catasetum maculatum. — Spotted Feelerbloom. (Bot. Reg. 62.) Orchi- 

 daceae. Gynandria Monandria. Very like the C. tridentatum, differing in the 

 helmet-shaped lip, having its lower edges brought together so as to press the 

 column, which, in the last-named species, is wide apart. We further noticed 

 the present species in the October Cabinet, referring to the figure given by 

 Dr. Hooker, in Bot. Mag. for September. 



Cyrtochilum maculatum, var. Ecornutum. — Spotted, hornless, var. (Bot. 

 Mag. 3836.) Orchidaceae. Gynandria Monandria. A native of Mexico, from 

 whence it was sent by John Parkinson, Esq. It has bloomed in the collection 

 at Woburn. The scape rises about a lout high, and bears a raceme of from six 

 to nine flowers. Petals and sepals of a yellowish green, marked with deep 

 purple blotches. Lip of a sulphur-yellow, having a red margin at each side of 

 the base. The disk at the base bearing four plates edged with brown. 



Delphinium decorum. — Pretty Larkspur. (Bot. Reg. 64.) Ranunculacea:. 

 Polyandria Tri. Pentagynia. A native of New California, which had been 

 raised by Mr. Cameron, in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, where it bloomed 

 the last summer. It is a hardy perennial. The flowers, when first expanding, 

 are of a bluish-violet colour, but afterwards change to rosy violet-purple. 



El2eodendron capense. — The Cape. (Bot. Mag. 3835.) Celastrina. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. Seeds of it were sent from the Cape of Good Hope to 

 the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. It is a tree growing six yards high. The 

 leaves are about two inches and a half long and one and a quarter broad, 

 serrated, of a dark green above and paler beneath. It is a handsome evergreen, 

 well worthy a place in the shrubbery. The flowers are green, not quite a 

 quarter of an inch across, produced in corymbs from the axils of the leaves, 

 three flowers on each branch of the corymb. Dr. Hooker remarks that the plant 

 generally grown by the name Elaeodendron capense is only a narrow-leaved 

 variety of the common bay. 



Monacanthus Bushnani. — Mr. Bushnau's Monk Flower. (Bot. Mag. 

 3832.) Orchideae. Gynandria Monandria. (Syu. M. discolor.) It has 

 bloomed in the collection in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flowers are of 

 a deep yellowish green, with the inside and apex of the lip of deep golden- 

 brown colours. Monacanthus. from Monachos, a monk, and Authos, a flower. 

 Alluding to the labellum in some being like a monk's cowl. 



OnONTOGLossuM bictoniense. — The Bicton Tooth-tongue. (Bot. Reg. 60.) 

 Oichideae. Gynandria Monandria. (Syn. Zygopetalum Africanum.) Mi. 

 Skinner sent it to Mr. Bateman from Guatemala. It was sent too, at the same 

 time, to Sir Charles Lemon, and to Lord Rolle, at Bicton, where it bloomed the 

 first. The flowers are produced on a simple raceme, having about ten on each. 

 Petals and sepals of a greenish-yellow, blotched with brown. Labellum, claw 

 yellow, with the large heart-shaped lip of a pretty rosy lilac. Each flower is 

 upwards of an inch and a half across. The same kind of treatment to this plant 

 is required as is requisite to the thin-leaved Oncidiums. It will grow well in a 

 pot placed with its roots just on the top of the soil, but is best when hung up. 

 In either way it requires a great deal of moisture from syringing, &c, in the 

 growing season. 



Pernkttya angustieolia.— Narrow-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 63.) Ericaceae. 

 Arbateae. Decandria Monogynia. A stiff, erect-growing, evergreen shrub, quite 

 hardy, said to be a native of Valdivia. It is of a dwarfish habit, very branching, 

 having a small foliage, each leaf being about three quarters of an inch long, 

 rather narrow in proportion, notched. The flowers are white, small, in form like 

 the white variety of Menziezia, or Irish heath. The flowers are produced 

 axillary, and so numerous along the branches, as to have, nearly one from the 



