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 PART II. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS 



Q V. E ILWE NOTICED SINCE OLE LASi. 



1. -Inyntcum distichum. (Bot. Reg.) This OrcMdeous plant is a native 

 of Sierra Leone, and was imported into this country by Messrs. Loddiges. 

 It requires to be grown in a stove with a high and moist atmosphere. In its 

 native country it grows on the hark of trees. The stem of the plant grows 

 about four inches long ; the leaves are of a deep bright green colour. The 

 flowers are small, a quarter of an inch across, whitish, without scent. Gy- 

 nandria Monaudria. Orchidete. Angnecum, from the Malay appellation 

 angree. 



2. CraLcgus Mexicana, Mexican Hawthorn. ( Brit. Flower Garden.) This 

 very pretty Hawthorn is a native of Mexico, and was introduced into this 

 country six years since, by A. B. Lambert, Esq., Boytoii House, AYiltshire. 

 It has flowered with Mr. Lambert, as well as ripened its fruit It is a va- 

 luable acquisition to our shrubberies, being quite hardy. The plant grows 

 from eight to ten feet high, and becomes bushy. It is without spines. Th ■■ 

 leaves are of a light green, and in form something resembling the foliage of 

 an apple or pear tree. The flowers arc produced in corymbs of from ten to 

 twelve in each; they are of a pure white. The fruit is the size of a largo 

 cherry, of a golden colour, dotted with brownish spots. The plant may be 

 it -tidily increased by budding it upon stocks of any other kind of Hawthorn. 

 Icosandria Digyuia. Pomaces. Crataegus, from Urates, strength; referring 

 to the hardness of the wood. 



3. Dendrobium cupreum, Copper-coloured flowered. (But. Reg.) Thi iie« 

 and beautiful species of Dendrobium was sent by Dr. Wallicii, from the 

 East Indies, to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, in the year 182<j,in whose 

 garden, at Spoffortb, it flowered for the first time in this country, about Mid- 

 summer l!S3 1. '• Its flowers are of a pale copper colour, veined with a redder 

 tinge, and have two reddish-brown blotches inside the lip. The spike of ten 

 large flowers all expanded simultaneously, and the progress was so rapid that 

 only ubout a week or ten Jays elapsed between its shewing buds and bursting 

 into bloom. Independently of the colour of the flowers, this species differs 

 from D. calceolaria in not having such long shoots, and in having the leaves 



attenuated and shorter. D. calceolaria under the same treatment, makes 

 -hoots above four feet long ; this plant, under three feet. It is curious that 

 these Dendrobiums, if they miss flowering, put forth a young plant instead 

 of a spike of flowers at the point of inflorescence." W. H. Gynandria Mo- 

 nundria. Orchidete. Dendrobium, from dendron, a tree, and bio, to live; 

 growing upon trees. 



4. Dgtkia rariflora, Scattered -flowered Dyckia. (Bot. Reg.) This very 

 handsome stove plant was discovered by Messrs. Spix and Martii s in Bra- 

 zil, and was forwarded by them to the Berlin Horticultural Garden, from 

 whence it was introduced into the garden of the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety in 1833. The flowers, which are produced in June, are of a beautiful 

 bright orange colour. Its habits are something similar to that of an Aloe. It 

 sbonld be potted in rich loam and placed in a dry stove, and may be increased 

 by offsets, but which are produced very sparingly. Dyckia, in honour of his 

 Highness the Prince of Salem, Riefferschied Dvck, a great lover and 

 patronizer of gardening. 



•5. Empetrum rubrvm, Red Crowberry. (Bot. Reg.) A native of South 

 America, where it is found growing along the sandy coasts all over the south- 



