338 J\''otices of new and beautiful Plants. 



only as they are more or less intrinsically interesting, either in 

 general appearance, or the individual or united beauty of their 

 flowers." 



The plant grows about two and a half feet high, with numerous 

 branches, terminated with an abundance of flowers, which, from 

 their clustered character, have the appearance of dense racemes. 

 Leaves opposite sessile; stems four-cornered. Its native habi- 

 tation is on dry rocks, many hundred feet above the level of the 

 sea: the pots should therefore be well drained, and a few pieces 

 of gritstone added to the compost. It should be set in an airy 

 part of the green-house or stove, watered freely in the summer 

 months, but should be kept perfectly dormant through the win- 

 ter, and, consequently, water should only be given in such quan- 

 tities as will keep it from drying up, until the season arrives for 

 exciting it to make a new growth. Increased by cuttings in 

 pure sand. (Pax. Mag. Bot., May.) 



MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PlANTS. 



Orchiddcece. 



* Sarcochllus parvijlorus. — "A small-flowered epiphyte, from 

 New Holland. It has no claim to beauty, but is interesting as a 

 second species of the genus." The flowers are green, with a 

 few spots of dull purple in the sepals. [Bot. Reg.^ May.) 



* Cirrhopetalum ccespitosum. A little epiphyte in the collec- 

 tion of the Duke of Devonshire, and imported by him from the 

 East Indies. It has small, pale, yellow ochre-colored flowers, 

 but without any thing very striking about them. Flowers in 

 April. (Bot. Reg., May.) 



* Octomeria gracilis Loddiges Mss. A species, with incon- 

 spicuous flowers, like the O. Baueri. Received by Messrs. 

 Loddiges from Rio Janeiro. (Bot. Reg., INIay.) 



* Onc'idixim tetrapetalwn Lindl. A beautiful little species, 

 the flowers being the smallest in the genus. " The labellum is 

 a pure dead alabaster white, except at its base, where it is cov- 

 ered with yellow and brown tubercles. The sepals and petals 

 are gaily barred and spotted with brown, while the column has 

 two large pink-spotted spreading wings. Jacquin describes the 

 species as having a flowering scape two feet high; that which ap- 

 peared in the Horticultural Garden was scarcely more than six 

 inches high, for the plant, though healthy, was weak and had suf- 

 fered from' its voyage." It was imported from Jamaica by John 

 Henry Lance, Esq. (Bot. Reg., May.) 



* Cymbidium virescens. This is a native of Japan, from 

 whence it was brought to Europe by Dr. Van Siebold. It has 

 greenish sepals and petals, about an inch and a half long, and a 

 pale yellow lip slightly blotched with dull red. It may probably 

 prove to be a green-house species. (Bot. Reg., May.) 



* ChcBndnthe Barken Lindl. A singular plant, remarkable 



