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NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
Acuimenes Kirer1.—Mr. Kier’s ACHIMENES. 
Messrs. Lane of Berkhampstead, obtained this pretty species from 
Guatemala through Mr. Skinner, who discovered it there. It is of 
medium habit in growth, and blooms freely. Each flower is about two 
inches across, of a rosy lilac colour. ° 
ACHIMENES JAYII. 
It has much the appearance of A. rosea in habit, but the flowers are 
of a bright purple colour. A beautiful variety. 
BRowALLIA SPECIOSA.— THE SHOWY. 
This pretty flowering new species is a native of Peru, from whence 
it was sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it has bloomed. 
Tube an inch long, and the irregular five-parted limb (top portion of 
the flower) is nearly two inches across; a pale lilac beneath, and a rich 
deep purple above, with a white throat. It is a shrubby, greenhouse 
plant, and showy. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
CrowEA STRICTA. 
The flowers are very similar in size, and a pink colour, like the 
C. saligna ; the plant, however, grows upright and blooms more freely. 
It is well worth a place in every greenhouse. 
CYcHNOCHES BARBATUM.—THE BEARDED. 
From Costa Rica, and has bloomed in the superb collection of 
orchideous plants at Ealing Park. The scape is a foot long, dark 
purple, terminated by a drooping many-flowered raceme of flowers. 
Each blossom is two inches across, sepals and petals yellow, spotted 
with purple. Lip white, tinged with yellow, and elegantly spotted 
with deep blood colour. Itis a singularly beautiful species. (Figured 
in Bot. Mag., 4479.) 
DENDROBIUM TORTILE.—TWISTED-PETALLED. 
A delicately handsome flowering orchideous plant, which has been 
imported from Moulmein by Messrs. Veitch’s. It has bloomed in the 
Royal Gardens of Kew. ‘The flower-stem rises about nine inches long. 
Each blossom is two inches across, sepals and petals white, delicately 
tinged with rosy-purple, waved. The lip is large, a lemon-yellow 
tinged with purple, and the base streaked with dark purple. It flou- 
rishes attached to a block of wood, like all the Dendrobiums. It re- 
quires a high temperature, being from Java. (Figured in Bot. Mag., 
4477.) 
InDIGOFERA DECORA.—THE CoMELY. 
Mr. Fortune found this pretty species in the nursery gardens at 
Shanghai in China, who sent it to the London Horticultural Society. 
It is a hardy greenhouse shrub, compact, and blooms very freely. ‘The 
flowers are borne in racemes of six inches long, rose-tinged, and spotted 
with purple. It is very neat and showy, and well merits a place in 
the greenhouse. (Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
