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high, terminating with a single flower about four inches across. Sepals 

 and petals a pale tawny colour. The lip is a pitch brown colour, with 

 a pure white termination to the lip, which is broad. The large size 

 and very striking contrast of the colours render the flowers very in- 

 teresting. Figured in Bot. Reg. 



^CHMEA DISCOLOR TwO-COLOURED, OR CrAb's ETE. 



Bromeliaceas. Hexandria Monogynia. 



A native of Brazil, and is in the stove collection at the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew. The leaves are like the Pine Apple plant. The 

 flowers are produced in a large panicled spike, the stems being of a 

 rich coral red, and the flowers of a bright vermilion colour, having 

 the calyx tipped with a very striking deep black, giving the whole a 

 very singular and pretty appearance. Figured in Bot. Mag, 4293. 



Edgworthia chrtsantha. 



A deciduous shrub, producing bunches of yellow sweet-scented 

 flowers, from Chusan, &c. This is a dwarf soft-wooded shrub, throw- 

 ing up rod-like dull green stems from its base, and bearing the leaves 

 exclusively near their ends. The leaves are about eight or nine inches 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, stalked, very dull green, and covered with 

 fine hairs, so small and closely pressed to the surface that the naked 

 eye fails to discern them. The flowers have not yet been produced in 

 England ; but Mr. Fortune's Chinese drawings and specimens show 

 them to be bright golden yellow, something less than an inch long, 

 covered with exceedingly thick air on the outside, and collected into 

 balls about two inches in diameter at the ends of the shoots, that they 

 are sweet-scented, and appear in Chusan in July. 



The species is allied to Edgworthia (or Daphne) Gardneri, a Nepal 

 plant with a similar habit, from which it differs in having longer and 

 more slender flowers, larger flower-heads, and a much more silky hairi- 

 ness on the outside of the flower. It is a green-house or half-hardy 

 shrub ; it grows freely in a compost of three parts sandy loam, and one 

 of turfy peat. A free drainage is necessary, for although it requires 

 an ample supply of water during the summer months it is liable to 

 damp off if this point is not properly attended to. For a few weeks 

 in winter veiy little water is required. Being sweet-scented and a 

 plant of free growth, it may be expected to prove a useful addition to 

 our green-house or half-hardy plants belonging to the natural order of 

 Daphnads. 



ErIOPSIS BILOBA TWO-LOBED. 



Orchidea. Gynandria Monandria. 



It was discovered in tlie collection of the late Mr. Barker, which 

 was purchased by J. J. Blandy, Esq., of Reading. It is of tlie Max- 

 illariads. The flowers are produced in long spikes of a ricli orange 

 colour margined with red. Each separate blossom is about three 

 fjuarters of an incli across. It is a very pretty and interesting species. 

 Figured in Bot. Reg. 18. 



