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study of many African species of Cuaimis, I am strongly disposed to regard 

 C. angaria as a cultivated annual state of some one of them, and originaliv 

 brought by the negroes from Africa, though so altered by cultivation that it may 

 not be possible to say of which. It clearly belongs to the group including the 

 bitter perennial C. prophetaniin (L.), which inhabits the drier parts of Africa and 

 Arabia, and is conspicuous for its scabridity and its ashy white hispid puljes- 

 cence, but which, in moister parts of Africa, is represented by tlie perennial 

 C. Figari, which is green, and of which the foliage and fruit are very similar 

 indeed to those of C. angiiria ; all these have ovoid berries covered with soft 

 spines, and striped with white, and their floral characters are identical. The 

 specimen described flowered at the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, 

 in August of the present year, and the fruit ripened in November. There is an 

 excellent description of it, by Naudin, in the Amiales des Sciences A'attirelles, 

 where it is stated to be abundantly cultivated in New Granada, and latterly in 

 Algeria. M. Naudin ably discusses the affinities of C. angiiria, but prcmounces 

 against its possible identity with C. Figari or C. propkctancm." 



Vanda Denisoniana (Bot. Mag., t. 581 1). — A fine Vanda, resembling, in 

 many of its characters, V. Bensoni. 



Aloe {Gasteria) Crouch e?-i {Boi. Mag., t. 5812). — "The handsomest Gasteria 

 of the kind that has hitherto flowered at Kew." The racemes are numerous, 

 and bear great numbers of flowers of a pale pink color tipped with green. 



Jcrdonia indica (Bot. Mag., t. 5814). — A curious little plant, which may be 

 likened to a cyclamen in leafage, and a violet in flower. The leaves are a fine 

 deep green, with gray veins, the flowers palest lilac, streaked with blood-red. A 

 charming plant to grow in the stove, and the more valuable as it flowers in Oc- 

 tober. 



Phalcenopsis ParisJii (Bot. Mag., t. 5815). — A lovely little orchid, native of 

 Burmah : the flowers are white ; the large terminal lobe of the lip deep purple. 



Drymonia tiirialvce (L'lllust. Hort., t. 603). — A fine gesneriaceous plant, 

 with large, richly-mottled leaves and large clusters of elegant white flowers, 

 which issue from ample calyces of a rosy-purple color. 



Cattleya superba v. splendens (L'lllust. Hort., t. 605). — A splendid variety of 

 this fine Cattleya : the flowers are of the richest rose-pink ; the lip a fine vinous 

 purple. 



Epidendruni anibigiuim (L'lllust. Hort, t. 606). — A charming species, .most 

 neat in habit, producing clouds of flowers of a paUid green hue ; the lip delicate- 

 ly dotted with pink. 



Centrosolenia ^?^//a/« (L'lllust. Hort., t. 607). — A fine gesneriaceous plant, 

 with large leaves, which are finely mottled, and clusters of short-tubed, pale- 

 yellow flowers. 



Chirita (?) lilacina (L'lllust. Hort., t. 608). — A beautiful herbaceous stove 

 plant, bearing on a single stem a number of ovate velvety-textured leaves and 

 pretty gloxinia-like flowers, which are pale blue w'ith white throat. 



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