52 NOTES ON NEW OK RAKE PLANTS. 



Gardens of Kew, where it has bloomed in the stove. It is profuse in 

 elegant, rich deep scarlet drooping flowers. 



The plant grows about three feet high, and as it continues in bloom 

 it is very ornamental for several months, for autumn and winter too. 

 It is a pretty and distinct addition to this very interesting family of 

 plants and deserves to be in everj- collection. Figured in Bot. Mag., 

 4281. 



Calanthe curculigoides — Yellow SPIKED Calanthe. 

 Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria. 



Discovered in the Straits of Malacca, from whence Messrs. Loddiges, 

 of the Hackney Nursery, obtained it. The flowers are produced in a 

 spike about a foot long, they are of a firm waxy nature, and what 

 renders it quite a novelty, is, they are of a bright yellow colour. 

 Figured in Bot. Reg., p. 8. 



Chirita Sinensis — Chinese Chirita. 



Cyrtandracea. Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Mr. Fortune sent this plant from China when employed as collector 

 for the London Horticultural Society. Its habit is that of a stemless 

 Gloxinia, the flowers rising about eight inches high, and the blossoms 

 are produced in compound corymbs. Each flower is tube-formed, an 

 inch long, with open mouth divided into five lobes, and the colours 

 purple varied with red, rose, and white. It produces its pretty flowers 

 freely, and well merits cultivation. When grown in the stove and 

 placed near the glass it thrives best, but we find it also to do well in 

 the warm part of a greenhouse. 



Epidendruim plicatom — The plaited Epidendrum. 



Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria. 



A native of Cuba, and has recently bloomed with Messrs. Loddiges. 

 The plaited crenelled lip, is very singular ; it is a rich crimson colour, 

 as are the petals at the back, but green on the inside, beautifully 

 spotted with crimson ; the sepals are green, slightly tinged with 

 crimson. The flowers are produced in a shortish raceme. 



Epidendrum fyriforme — Pear-formed Epidendrum. 



This plant is also a native of Cuba, and has bloomed with Messrs. 

 Loddiges. Each flower is about two inches and a half across. The 

 sepals and petals being of a reddish-yellow colour, and the lip a pale 

 straw, veined with crimson. 



Eriopsis biloba— Two-lobed Eriopsis. 



Orchidacea. Gynandria Monandria. 



It belongs to the section of Maxillarida. The flowers are produced 

 in a. long spike of a rich orange colour. It recently bloomed in the 

 collection of J. J. Blandy, Esq., of Reading, who bought the fine col- 

 lection of the late Mr. Barker, and this was one of the new things 

 therein. 



