196 NOTES ON NEW OK BABE PLANTS. 



NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Angdloa Clowesii, vab. — Mr. Clowes's Angdloa variety. 

 OrcMdeee, Gynandria Monandria. 



Tliis fine plant was sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Pur- 

 die, and it has reeenth' bloomed in the fine collection of the Duke of 

 Northumberland, at Sion Gardens, near Kew. Each of the flower 

 stems are single flowered. A separate flower is about three inches 

 long by two broad, slightly hooded. Sepals and petals a bright yellow, 

 and the lip tipped with a deep orange colour. It is a beautiful 

 variet}-. 



ASTSTASIA CoBOMANDELIANA. 

 Acanthacea. Didynamia Angiospemtia. (Syn. Ruellia seciinda.) 



It is a beautiful hothouse plant ; a native of the East Indies. It is 

 a free bloomer, and easily cultivated ; it blooms from August to De- 

 cember. The flowers are produced in terminal racemes. Tube one 

 inch long, yellow ; the limb is a beautiful lively bine violet, about an 

 inch and a quarter across. It deserves to be in every collection of 

 stove-plants. It is in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, Edgeware- 

 road, London. 



Cleisostoma ioxoscm — Violet-scexted. 



OrchidacecF. Gynandria Monandria. 



Mr. Cuming sent this pretty species from Manilla to Messrs. Lod- 

 diges, with whom it has bloomed. The flowers very much resemble 

 the Oncidiums ; each blossom is about an inch across, flat, yellow, 

 with cinnamon-brown coloured bars, liaving a white lip, with a k\y 

 red streaks. They are produced in an open brandling panicle of two 

 feet long, and have a very pleasant violet scent. It well merits to be 

 in every collection. (Figured in Bot. Jieg.) 



Dendbobium chbtsotoxum — The Golden- abch Dendbobium. 



Imported from the East Indies by Messrs. Henderson's in whose col- 

 lection it bloomed the last spring. It very much resembles the D. 

 densiflorum. but has the lip curiously fringed, not shaggy. The flowers 

 are produced in a spreading raceme. Each blossom is an inch and a 

 half across, a rich, deep golden yellow, with a brownish-red circle 

 towards the base of the labellum. It is a verj' handsome species, well 

 deserving cultivation. (Figured in Bot. Reg.) 



DiAXTHUs Hexdersoxiaxcs — Mr. Hendeesox's Pixk. 



It is a very rich deep crimson-coloured variety, supposed to be between 

 the carnation and China pink, A-ery double, and a separate blossom ; is 

 near two inches across. The plant has the habit of tlie Carnation and 

 the flowers of tlie pink. It is a fine border plant, readily increasing 

 by slips, layers, or pipings. It is not known where it originated, but 

 is in ^Messrs. Henderson's collection at Pine Apple Place Nursery. 

 (Figured in Pax. 3Iag. Bot.) 



