44? FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



Orchiddcccc ^Xeottie^e. 



2574. PRESCO'TT/.^ 



•col6rans Lindl. colouiing ^ (23 cu ja IJ G.W Brazil 1834 T) p.l Bot. reg. 1916. 



" It is a much more attractive plant than the other variety 

 (figured in Bot. Beg., t. 1067.), because of the deep purple 

 spots at the base of the divisions of its flower; and it might be 

 almost considered a different species, but there do not appear to 

 be any characters to distinguish it with certainty. It will pro- 

 bably be treated as a green-house plant ; but it is, undoubtedly, 

 one of those species which would succeed better in a situation 

 protected from frost and damp in winter, but without any arti- 

 ficial heat. Considering how very large a number of beautiful 

 plants we have that would grow in all their native beauty under 

 such circumstances, it is not a little remarkable that none of the 

 many wealthy cultivators of flowers should yet have thought of 

 constructing movable glass houses, that should be only erected 

 during winter, and totally removed after the frosts in spring. A 

 thousand pounds so expended would produce a far greater 

 result than three thousand applied in the common manner; 

 and the annual cost of keeping such houses in order would 

 be nothing as compared with the expense of green-houses and 

 stoves." {13ot. Beg., Dec.) We are glad to see Dr. Lindley 

 taking up the subject of temporary green-houses, which we have 

 been strongly recommending for the last twenty years. See our 

 Bemar/iS on Hot-houses (4-to, 1816), Bncijc. of Gard., this Ma- 

 gazine, and Arb. Brit. 



Orchiddcece § Epidcndrece. 



25G2. BRASSAVO-L.4 [1914. 



•28680a cord^ta ijnrf/. heart-lipped j« [S cu 1 ja G.W Brazil ... D stones and rocks Bot reg. 



" Closely allied to B. nodosa, from which it differs in its 

 flowers being only half the size, with a cordate labellum, and a 

 very different clinandrium. It was imported from Brazil by 

 Messrs. Loddiges. . . . There will be no certainty in the culti- 

 vation of epiphytal Orchidaceae, till we become more precisely 

 acquainted with the habits of the different species than we now 

 are. At present, it is usual to consider them all natives of trees 

 in damp shady woods. It is, however, quite certain that such is 

 the habit of only some of them. The whole genus Brassavolff, 

 for example, grows upon stones and rocks, never upon trees, in 

 open forest glades, fully exposed to the sun." [Bot. Beg., Dec.) 



95^3. CATTLE' Y^ 28532 intermfidia 



2 pallida tinrf/. pd\e.Jluwered ^ El or 1 jn R.L Brazil 1833 D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1919. 



" The mixture of white and crimson in its flowers gives it a 

 beautiful appearance, and renders it much more interesting than 

 the original variety, which is too like C. Loddiges//." It is by 

 far the handsomest of the tribe in this country [Buenos Ay res], 

 and grows equally well on the sea-beaten rock and the moss- 

 covered tree in the heart of the forest. It is to be found in 



