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and a little leaf mould. It is increased [freely by seed sown as soon 

 as ripe. It must be considered a neat and very pretty jilant,' well 

 suited for rockwork." — Jour. Hort. Soc. (Figured in Bot. Reg,, 64.) 



BiiETiA Gebina — Japanese Bletia. 



Orclddacea. Gynandria Monandria. 

 A delicate looking terrestrial Orchid, bearing a near connexion to 

 B. hyacintldna ; it is thus described in the Horticultural Society's 

 Journal : — " leaves broad, plaited, rising up the stem, from six to 

 eight inches long, or more, and two inches wide, the uppermost acu- 

 minate, the lowest obtuse. The flowers are about as large as Bletia 

 hyacinthina, from six to eight in a spike, two inches and a half in 

 diameter, nearly white, M'ith a faint tinge of blush. The lip is a pale 

 delicate violet, obtusely three-lobed, with seven plates upon its surface, 

 of wliich two at the side are confined to the middle lobe, and the five 

 others are extended to the base, which is a little stained with yellow." 

 We saw it in bloom at Messrs. Loddiges' nursery. Hackney, in the 

 spring, and were informed the plant is sufficiently hardy to be grown 

 in the cold frame or greenhouse. 



Browallia Jamesoni — Jameson's Browallia. 



ScTopltul'jriacew. 

 This very distinct and handsome shrubby plant was produced in 

 bloom last sununer by Messrs. Veitch, at one of the meetings of the 

 Horticultural Society. It grows from two to four feet and upwards 

 in height, and is clothed witli soft pubescence. It is furnished with 

 small rough ovate shining leaves, and sub-corymbose cymes of some- 

 what crowded deep yellow and orange-coloured blossoms, which have 

 a long slender tube, and a roundish, somewhat crimped, expanding 

 limb of an inch or more in diameter. The species is a native of New 

 Granada, Ecuador, and Peru. It appears to have been introduced 

 about 1846. 



Crowea latifolia — Broad-leaved Crowea. 



Rutacece. Decandria Monogynia. 



This delightful greenhouse shrub was introduced to this country 

 from New Holland upwards of twenty years ago, but it has hitherto 

 been much neglected. It grows more robust, and forms a finer object 

 than even the well known C. saligna, and like it blooms freely nearly 

 all the year. The flowers are about an inch across, and of a pretty 

 rosy pink colour. It may be had in some of the London nurseries. 

 (Figured in Bot. 3Iag.) 



Dendrobium cretaceum — Chalk-white Dendrobe. 



Orchidacece. Gynandria Monandria. 

 From their collectors of Moulmein plants, Messrs. J. Veitch and 

 Son, of Exeter, received this distinct species, which bloomed in their 

 nursery in July last. It has a very peculiar appearance when in 

 flower, by tlie dead chalky-wliiteness of its blossoms. It appears also 

 to possess a particular distinction in producing its flowers solitary, and 



