294 NOTES ON NEW OH RARE PLANTS. 



with two silver-coloured stripes lengthways on each. The flowers are 

 purple, neat and pretty. The striped foliage, with its various colours, 

 has a very pretty appearance. It is a nice plant for hanging down 

 inside a window. 



CYrRiPEDiuM GUTTATUM.— This pretty flowering species is figured 

 in Van Houtte's Flore. The flowers are of a yellowish-white ground, 

 marked and blotched Avith crimson and red. Very beautiful. Culti- 

 vated by M. L, Van Houtte. 



Delphinium magnificum. — The flowers are double, very large, and 

 of the richest azure blue. Ought to be in every flower-garden. D.ja- 

 ponicum. — The flowers are single, very large, with a white Bee centre. 

 A robust grower, and very handsome ; should be in every garden. 

 D. grandifiora major. — The spike of double rich blue flowers will rise 

 six feet high ; a noble variety. D. ptimila elegans. — The flowers are 

 double, deep purple, the spike only about a foot high. A very pretty 

 variety. 



Dendrobium transparens, — A native of Nepal. Eecently Messrs. 

 Veitch received it from their collector, who discovered it at Myrong 

 (or Wood), on the Garrow Hills, at an elevation of 5300 feet. The 

 flowers are very transparent, of a pale pink stained with crimson. Sepals 

 are narrow ; petals broader ; labellum broadest. Each blossom is about 

 three inches across. A very neat Orchideous plant. (Figured in Pax- 

 ton's Flower Garden.) 



EcHiTES Franciscea, var. Sulphureis. — A native of Brazil. It 

 is a stove creeping plant, but grows freely when trained to a wire trellis, 

 or against a pillar, back wall, &c. The flowers are produced in a large 

 racemous head. Each blossom is an inch and a iialf across, of a pale 

 sulphur with a rose-coloured centre. (Figured in Bot. Mag. 4547.) 



Franciscea eximia. — A native of Brazil, growing in shady forests. 

 It was obtained from thence by M. de Jonghe of Brussels, in 1847. 

 It is a somewliat erect-j^rowing slirub, very much the habit of F. lati- 

 folia. The flowers are produced in cymous heads, of two to four in 

 each. A separate blossom is about three inches across, of a deep violet 

 colour. It blooms very freely, a plant two and a-half feet high bearing 

 two hundred flowers in a season. The Francisceas are fine plants for 

 winter and early spring blooming. They flourish in a compost of equal 

 parts of turfy loam, fibry peat, and leaf mould, witii a free drainage. 

 Some of them have flowers deliciously fragrant. They deserve to be 

 grown wherever practicable. (Figured in Mag. of Botany.) 



Franciscea latifolia. — This is an excellent plant for winter 

 bloom, in fact it will bloom all the year. The shrub grows freely, 

 beautiful green foliage, flowers two and a-half inches across ; when first 

 open they are of pretty light blue, and change to white. The blossoms 

 thus contrasted have a very pretty eflPect. It ought to be grown in 

 every warm greenhouse, stove, or sitting room. 



Freziera theoides. Tea-leaved. — A small tree, or shrub, a 

 native of Jamaica. In the stoves of this country it grows about a yard 



