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delicate glandular hairs. Leaves pale green, oblong-lanceolate, taper- 
ing to the base. The flowers, which are about two inches long, grow 
singly and nearly sessile in the axils of the leaves; they have a long 
narrow plaited unequal calyx, beyond which projects the very slender 
tube of the corolla, which then widens into a funnel-shaped limb, with 
an oblique border cut into five nearly equal rounded lobes. Its general 
colour is bright pink, with a deep crimson spot at the base of each 
lobe, and a bright yellow stain along the lower lip. As far as its eul- 
tivation is understood, it appears as if it would be best to treat it asa 
half-hardy annual. It is a delicate growing plant, with very neat 
party-coloured flowers, well repaying any care required for its culti- 
vation. 
ErIDENDRUM FRAGRANS : Swartz; var. megalanthum. (Presented 
to the Society by G. U. Skinner, Esq., in July, 1848, and said te be 
from Guatemala.) The flowers are full four inches -in diameter, of a 
pale clear greenish white, and the lip is vividly marked by clean stripes 
of very rich crimson. It is quite a giant of its kind, for the pseudo- 
bulbs and leaves, taken together, are sometimes eighteen inches long. 
It is best grown in the coolest part of the orchid-house, potted in fibry 
peat, with half-decayed leaves, and liberally supplied with moisture 
during the growing season. It is a very desirable plant, with large 
fragrant flowers. 
Ponta Movtan: versicotor. (Received from Mr. Fortune, in 
April, 1846, from the north of China, and said to be the ‘ Tee-lok,” 
a greenish-white kind.) Flowers large, semi-double, or probably 
quite double, with large broad petals, very irregularly arranged and 
cut on the edges, deep purple near the base, fading to a rosy lilac near 
the outsides. Very handsome, showy, and distinct. 
Pzonta Movuran: ATROSANGUINEA. (Received from Mr. Fortune 
in May, 1846, marked “ dark purple,” from Hong Kong, and from 
Shanghae, as “ very dark, nearly black.”) Flowers a good double 
dark crimson. It is a handsome deep blood coloured variety, the 
darkest of all the tree Ponies yet in cultivation. 
CULTURE OF LESCHENAULTIA FORMOSA. 
BY A FOREMAN OF A LONDON NURSERY. 
Tuts beautiful flowering plant has now been brought to a state of per- 
fection in growth which a few years back would have been deemed 
impossible. The noble specimens seen at the London Floral Exhi- 
bitions are full proof of the truth asserted. I am accustomed to 
exhibit on those occasions, and am always glad to be taught what I do 
not know of an useful character, and am equally pleased to contribute 
to the advantage of others. By the following mode of treatment I 
grow this beautiful plant, equal in size and merit to any other ex- 
hibitor. 
Early in spring I took four healthy young plants growing in thirty- 
two sized pots, and had them potted in twenty-four’s, as follows :—In 
a compost formed of the following. proportions, viz., one-half rough 
