Notices of new and interesting Plants. 23 



" Bulb as large as a swan's egg, bearing green sword-shaped leaves, nearly a yard long and six inches 

 broad. The flower-stem springs from the base of the bulb ; is four feet high ; and bears at its extremity 

 a raceme a foot in length of large, yellowish white, almost globose, fleshy flowers, yielding a peculiar 

 fragrance, which somewhat resembles that of the English JVuphar liitea. In Panama, the plant is 

 called El Spirito Santo (the Holy Spirit), and its blossoms show why : the centre of the flower 

 exhibits a column which, with its summit or anther, and the projecting gland of tlie pollen masses, 

 together with the almost erect wings, bears a striking resemblance to a dove, the emblem of the third 

 person in the Trinity. El Spirito Santo was therefore applied by the same people, and in the same reli- 

 gious feeling, as dictated the naming of the Passion Flower. 



3412. CERATOCHTLUS. 



oculktns Lo. C. eyed _^ (23 or 1 J" Y.spot Xalapa 1829. D p.r Bot. cab. 176-t 



The flowers are pendulous, curiously formed, fragrant, and sprinkled over with innumerable spots, 

 most of which are annular. Near the' base of the lip are two very large ones, like eyes, which add 

 greatly to the elegance of the flower. 



2563. SARCA'NTHUS. , . 



gnttatus i/nrf/. £23 el 1 ap W.V.Ro Dacca 1818. D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1443 



Atrides guttitum Roxb. MSS. 



A lovely epiphyte, with a stem a foot or more in length ; depending in its native habitat, the vicinity 

 of Dacca, from the branches of trees ; but in the Chiswick Garden " is cultivated in the stove, in a 

 very hot damp atmosphere, in a pot full of moss, suspended from the roof by a wire, and a little over- 

 shadowed by climbing and other plants : " thus treated, it flowers in April. Leaves a foot in length, 

 channeled ; but, when spread flat, an inch broad ; of a shining green. Racemes longer tlian the leaves, 

 drooping, solitary. Flowers numerous, approximate, pretty large; colour, a beautiful mixture of red 

 and white spotted. 



2540. OXCI'DIUM. 



bicornutum //oo/l-. two-horned £ [Z3 el 1 jn Y.Br Brazil 1830. D p.r.w Bot. mag. 3109 



A very beautiful Brazilian species, whose slender scape, scarcely longer than the leaves, is sur- 

 mounted by a large and dense panicle of showy flowers, their ground colour being deep yellow, which is 

 striped, mottled, and spotted with purple red. 



O. pumilum. Its blossoms, marked with various colours, are minute, but very numerous, and, when 

 closely inspected, highly pleasing. {Bot. Cab. 1732., Oct. 1831.) 



•2530(1 CORY A'NTHES 7/ooA-. Helmft-flower. (A'or.v.t, helmet, nn/Z/os, flower; shape of appendage to lip.) 

 maculfita //wit sputted.///)/)<-rf £ E] spl Ujn Y.p Demerara 18-9. D p.r.w Bot. mag. 3102 



The Cory'iiithcs macuiata of //ooy.f/- is a superb stove orchideous plant, newly introduced from the 

 forests of Demerara, where it grows on the trunks of trees : it blossomed in June, 1831, in the Liverpool 

 Botanic Garden. " Bulbs clustered, scai>e U ft. long, pendulous from the weight of the numerous, very 

 large, blossoms ; of the.se, the petals are of a pale ochraceous yellow colour, the lip and its appendage 

 more inclining to yellow, the laiter, which is large and shaped likea helmet, tinged at the margin, and 

 spotted inside'with purple." Each bulb (or pseudo-bulb Lindl.) is two. leaved. 



Dr. Hooker refers to this genus also the Gongbrn! specibsa Hook. Bot. ifag. 2755., and Gongora 

 macrantha Hook. Bot. MisccUani/, 80. ; but, as to the name of this genus, Coryanthes, seems to have 

 overlooked its inadmissible nearness to the orchideous genus Corysanthes of Brown : if so, it is a 

 notable instance of an aiipropriation of the same idea and terms by which to express it, by two men 

 unaware of each other's intentions : an almost parallel instance obtains in Necker's euphorbiaceous 

 genus Pedilaiithus, which Mr. Haworth had simultaneously or previously in MS. distinguished and 

 denominated Crcpidiria; Necker choosing Greek, and Mr. Haworth Latin, to express the slipper-like 

 shape of the involucre. 



Orckldea \ Epid^ndrea. 



2552. BRASAVO'L^. ^ _ , 



nodbsa Lindl. knotty £ □ fra 1 o Ysh.G Mexico 1828. D p.r Bot. reg. 1465 



Fills the woods at night with its fragrance ; grows freely in a hot damp stove, among moss, in decayed 

 vegetable matter." 



Orc/ildea ^ Malaxidece. 



2575. MICRO'STYLIS. ^. „ , „ ,. ,„., 



versicolor Lindl. changeable £? [Z3 cu 1 jn.o O China 18.iO. D p.r Bot. cab. 1751 



2539. PLEUROTHA'LLIS. . „ , , ,-„ 



Lancenna Lo. C. Lance's £ [23 cu .J au Y.g Sunnam 18ol. D p.r Bot. cab. 1(67 



Liparis priochiUis B. C , , . r^ , .„ 



Ill OrchideiP, the following are promising to flower, some of them strongly, in a stove at Colvill's, 

 under Mr, Riath's skilful management : — Oiicidium altissimum, luridum and carthaginense ; Bonatfd 

 specibsa, Cypripfedium veniistum, Eulbphia gracilis, and PholidTitr. jamaicensis. Epidendrum cochlea- 

 tum is in blossom ; and Neottia specii" sa shows flowers, and is already beautiful in its conspicuous spike 

 of red and sheathing bracteas. At Young's, Spiranthes procfera is (Jan. 20.) in blossom. At Malcolm's 

 (Jan 1(1.), in a cold damp green-house, Goodyerfl di.scolor was thriving perfectly ; and its delicate white 

 blossoms, produced in spikes 6 in, long, contrasted pleasingly with its dark-hued leaves; beside it stood 

 the G tessellata with its foliage so elc{;antlv varic^'ated, L: te in November last, Cattltya labiSta 

 flowered finely with Mr, Campbell at the Comte de Vandes's. How exquisitely elegant is this species! 

 Cypript-dium insigne flowered there also early in December. 



On the pro])agation of the stove Orchidea; some remarks occur in the present Number, p. 88., and it 

 will be here in place to remark the peculiar manner in which some plants of this order are ^Touped at 

 Colvill's. A crooked trunk of an oak tree rises from the floor and is fastened to the rafters of the roof, 

 and to this are affixed, with nails, the husks of cocoa-nut shells, so thickly, as completely to hide the 

 oaken trunk : the interstices between the nut-shells are filled with soil and moss, in which the orchi- 

 dcous epiphvtes are planted. 



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