230 J^otices of new and beautiful Plants 



Too frequently plants which require a dry and sandy soil are 

 planted in one continually saturated with water; and again, those 

 which require a moist situation are planted in a dry one; and so 

 in regard to light and shade. We might enumerate many gene- 

 rally cultivated plants which are mistreated in this manner; but 

 we pass them by, advising the amateur or gardener to learn, if 

 possible, the habit of every species before planting them out. 

 {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



PRESCO'TTM Lindl. (named in compliment to John Prescott, Esq., of St. Petersburgb, a 

 learned and indefatigable botanist.) 

 coloians Lindl. Piirjjlish Prescottia. An herbaceons stove plant; growing a foot hieh ; 

 witb ereenisb flowers ; appearing in January ; cultivated in sandy peat ; a native of 

 Brazil. Bot. Reg., 1916. 



An herbaceous plant, with sohtary, ovate, oblong, acuminate 

 leaves, and dense cylindrical spikes of greenish-white erect 

 jfiowers. It grows readily in sandy peat, flowering in its season, 

 and dying down for the remainder of the year. Introduced by 

 the Messrs. Loddiges. {Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



CA'TTLEY.4 

 intermedia var. pallida Liyidl. syn: C. intermedia Graham in Bot. Mag. PA]e-fiowered 

 intermediate Cattleya. A stove epipbyto ; growins; six incbes bigh ; with wbite and 

 crimson flowers ; appearing in June ; a native of Brazil. Bot. Reg., 1919. 



Exceedingly pretty, as indeed is the original species of this 

 and the others of the genus. The plant throws up a slender 

 stem, on which appear two pale pink or blush flowers, the lip 

 elegantly marked with crimson. It flowered in the collection 

 of the London Horticultural Society. Dr. Lindley describes 

 five species which have not yet been figured, and part of which 

 have not been introduced; C. bicolor and coccinea, he states, 

 are not at all inferior to the C. labiata and C. Loddigesn. It 

 grows equally weh in its native country, " on the sea-beaten 

 rock and the moss-covered tree, in the heart of the forest." 

 (Bat. Reg., Dec.) 



TRIGONCniUM Lindl.. {Named in allusion to tbe triangular form of several parts ; the 



sepals form a three-cornered cup ; tbe gland on which the pollen masses rest is an ob- 



tuse-anjjled triangle, and tbe stisma is a triangular excavation.) 



obtilsum iJmrf^. Blunt-pe«a/cf/ Trisonidium. A stove epiphyte ; growina six incbes high ; 



witb white and orange colored flowers; appearing in August: a native of Demarara. 



Bot. Reg., 1923. 



A species of a free flowering habit, and easy of cultivation, 

 but not freely increased. The flowers are solitary, upon erect 

 stems, with three petals disposed in a triangular form. These 

 stems spring from a rhizoma connecting two pseudo bulbs. 

 Found in Demarara, by Mr. CoUey, in 18.34. {Bot. Reg., Jan.) 



BURLINGTO'NM Lindl. tDedicated to the Countess of Burlington, an amiable and accom- 

 plished lady.) 

 Candida Lindl. Snow-white Burlinctonia. A stove epiphyte ; growing six inches high; with 

 wbite flowers ; appearing in April; a native of Demerara. Hot. Heg., ]9'}7. 



" The vegetable kingdom comprehends nothing more perfectly 

 lovely than the delicate flowers of this plant, in which not a tinge 

 of color sullies the snow-white transparency of the petals, unless 

 it be a faint dash of straw color on the lip." The flowers ap- 

 pear on pendulous racemes, five on each, and are, in truth, from 



