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New Plants. — We copy from "The Floral World" the following : — 

 ErytJn-oniuvt giganteutii. Gigantic Dog's-tooth Violet (Bot. Mag., t. 5714). — 

 Liliaceas. The handsomest of its race hitherto introduced to this country. It 

 is a native of North America. It is a tall herb, the leaves dark green, blotched 

 with dark brown ; flowers in a scape of two to four, white with gold-yellow 

 centre. 



Aristolochia ringens, Gaping-flowered Birthwort (Bot. Mag., t. 5700). — Aris- 

 tolochieae. A magnificent stove-climber from the plains of Santa Cruz, in New 

 Granada, where its roots are esteemed as an antidote for snake-bites. It is a 

 tall, slender, perfectly glabrous plant, with orbicular-reniform leaves, of a pale 



ERYTHRONIUM GIGANTEUM. 



ARISTOLOCHIA RINGENS. 



green color, and flowers from seven to ten inches long, pale green, marked and 

 reticulated with dark black purple. The perianth is a ventricose sac, two and a 

 half inches long, woolly inside ; the tube is divided into two very long lips, one 

 of which terminates in an ovate or reniform blade. 



Cochliostc7na Jacobiajium^ General Jacobi's Cochliostema (Bot. Mag., t. 5705). 

 — Commelyneae. A magnificent epiphyte, "combining the foliage of a gigantic 

 Anthurium, with masses of inflorescence, which for size, delicacy, and beauty of 

 tints, cannot well be surpassed." The leaves are three to four feet long, four to 

 six inches broad, deep green, edged with brown. The peduncles are as thick 

 as the finger, white, tinged with pink, bearing an immense panicle of flowers, 

 which are delicately tinted with pink and purple colors. The plant is a native 

 of Ecuador. 



Lycaste Barringtonice^ van grandiftora (Bot. Mag., t. 5706). — A fine variety 

 of an old and favorite orchid. 



