224 Notices of new and beautiful Plants. 



clusters on long peduncles. " A very handsome species," easily 

 cultivated in the green-house. (Bot. Reg., March.) 



COOPE>R/jS W. Herbert, MSS. (In compliment to Mr. Cooper, gardener to Earl Fitzwilliara, at 

 Wentworth House, one of the most successful cultivators of rare plants). 

 Drummondi W. Herbert, MSS. Drummond's Cooperia. A green-house bulb; growing about 

 a foot high ; flowers white ; a native of the Texas. Bot. Reg., 1835. 



Bulb ovate; scape one flowered; leaves narrow flaccid and red at 

 the base. " Nearly allied to Zyphryanthes." It was discovered 

 in Texas by the lamented Drummond, and sent by him to Scot- 

 land, where it flowered in several gardens, in 1835, at nearly the 

 same time. It is at present considered as a green-house plant. 

 {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



chlorosolen Herbert, MSS. A green-house bulb ; growing a foot or more in height ; flowers white. 

 A native of Texas. Text, in Bot. Reg. 



" Nearly akin to C. Drummondi," and has flowered in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Herbert, at SpofForth. {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



Orchidacea. 



NCI'DIUM 



RusselHdmum Lindley The Duke of Bedford's Oncidiura. A stove epiphyte ; with violet 

 purple flowers ; a native of Rio Janeiro ; introduced in 1832. 



Different from the general form of the genus Oncidium, to 

 which, Dr. Lindley states, he is not sure that it belongs ; but not 

 possessing sufficient information in regard to the plant, he does not 

 feel justified in creating a new one. Pseudo-bulbs, ovate ; leaves 

 ligulate-lanceolate ; raceme about four-flowered. Flowers lilac 

 and brown purple. The species is named in compliment to his 

 grace the Duke of Bedford, in whose collection at Woburn, it first 

 flowered in Europe. {Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



LilidcecB. 



YV CCA. 



Y. aloifolia is figured in Paxton's Magazine of Botany, for 

 March. It is a handsome species, which, with gloriosa and filamen- 

 tosa, should be in every good green-house collection of plants. 

 They are valuable for setting out on lawns in the summer season, 

 where their singular foliage has a very ornamental appearance. 

 Specimens of this species, from which the drawing was taken, 

 were sent from the Manchester Botanic Garden. The plant in 

 bloom stood nine or ten feet high ; the spike of flowers measuring 

 four feet, forming a " pyramid of beauty and attractiveness." 

 Cultivated easily in rich loam with a small proportion of pulverized 

 peat. Increased by suckers. 



Y. filamentosa, in the collection of Mr. Mason, of Charlestown, 

 is now throwing up a fine spike of flower buds, and will soon be 

 splendidly in bloom. 



