22 Notices of new and interesting Plants'. 



produced below the point of insertion, but merely articulated on the filament. Mr. Bentham finds the 

 genus he had in Bot. Reg. t. 1282. denominated AudibertSa untenable, so transfers the name to the 

 present plant. 



Subclass II. 



Plants with Endogenous Growth and Monocotyledonous Seed. 



CCXXXVIII. Amaryllidex. 



'pallidus B. C. p^le-Jtowered tf lAI or 1 jn Pk Valparaiso 1830. O r.m Bot. cab. 1760 



Among the bulbs were some with flowers ranging between white and red, from which we may infer 

 that H. pallidus is a cultivated plant. Bot. cab. 



070 T'HYCF'I LA 

 8006a glaiica B. C. glaucous-fed tf iAJ or ljn R Valparaiso 1824. O l.p Bot. cab. 174S 



P. ignea var. glauca Bot. mag. 2687. 



2 S pulchra D. Don pretty tf lA) or 1| o R Valparaiso... O r.m Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l21 



Ornamental in the umbel of pendulous, red, tubular blossoms. Figured from the Chelsea Botanic 

 Garden, and some varieties near the above are at Knight's Exotic Nursery. 



' '965. CYRTA'NTHUS. 

 7868a carneus Lindl. flesh-coloured JiAlor 1 au F C. G. H. ... O r.m Bot. reg. 1462 

 The crown of long, pendulous, flesh-coloured, tubular corols is very ornamental. 



938. CALOSTE'MMA. 



Cunninghams* Ait. Cunningham's tf lAI or 1 sp W N. Holl. 1826. O s.l 



28162a' NeiUSS Gill. .Neill's & l_l el 2 jn Pa.Ro Mendoza 1827- O l.p Bot. mag. 3105 



A very pretty species, near'A.'pallida, named after the celebrated Patrick Neill, Esq., of Canonmills, 

 near Edinburgh, where and with whom it bloomed in the green-house, in June, 1831. Native of both 

 sides of the Cordillera of the Andes, between Chile and Mendoza. Stem upright, bearing highly glau- 

 cous leaves, and an umbel of from six to eight flowers of a pale rose colour. Dr. Graham furnishes 

 the description of this species, and remarks : — ■" Mr. Neill's very interesting garden has recently sus- 

 tained a great loss in the removal of the gardener, Alexander Scott, whose professional talent and patient 

 industry have been transferred to a situation of more extensive usefulness. He has been appointed 

 foreman to Mr. Knight's Exotic Nursery, Chelsea ; a situation for which he is especially fitted by his 

 quiet unassuming manners and uniformly steady conduct." 



Upwards of a hundred beautiful, and some of them splendid, and many of them newly originated, 

 hybrid kinds of Amaryllis, are now (Jan. 17.) blooming at Colvill's. Of A. aulica platyp£tala two most 

 vigorous specimens have blossomed : one is still flowering ; the other is past, and exhibits finely swollen 

 germens, which have been artificially impregnated with pollen of A. reticulata : from the union of these 

 two fine kinds, hybrids of high interest are anticipated. Crinum amabile here exhibits the last flowers 

 of an extremely fine umbel; and C. australe is in blossom. Rather many seedlings of alstroemerias, 

 j from seeds purchased of Mr.Cumming, are already above ground. Forced specimens of a double-flowered 

 polyanth-narcissus are finely in blossom : this is possibly the Hermlone Cypri v. plfena of Haworth's 

 excellent Narcissineixrum Monographia. 



CCXXX1X. Iridece. 

 3281. STREPTANTHE^RA. 



£8007 cuprea Swt. copper-cld tf lAI or f jn.jl Cop C. G. H. 1825. O p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.l22 



" Stigma three-cleft, the segments broadly dilated at the ends, deeply channeled on the upper side, 

 having the appearance of two lobes ; the edges beautifully fringed, so as to give it, with its hollow sur- 

 face, the exact resemblance of a leaf of Diona?\e muscipula : has it not the same uses ?" Drawn from 

 Mr. Colvill's. 



128. GLADPOLUS. 

 11876 ? natalensis Reinwardt Natal tf lAI spl 4 jl.au S.Y Natal 1830. O p.l Bot. cab. 1756 ' 



This bore the winter perfectly well out of doors, in front of our stove, in sandy peat soil, and appears 

 to increase itself freely by offsets. (Loddiges's Bot. Cab.) This new and very splendid species has been 

 also recently published in the Botanical Register, 1442., but under the abrogated name of G. psittaclnus ; 

 the editor having perhaps overlooked the note at t. 3084. of Bot. Mag., in which Dr. Hooker shows that 

 natalensis is the legitimate name of the species. Stem 3 to 4 ft. high, well furnished with leaves, and ter- 

 minated by a spike, a foot in length, of large blossoms, yellow-spotted, striped, and marginated with 

 scarlet. " The colours are indeed splendid beyond any thing that can be expressed, except by the most 

 elaborate miniature painting." Published in Bot. Reg. from the nurseries of Mr. Lee of Hammersmith, 

 where it blossomed in July last ; and from that of Mr. Miller of Bristol, with whom it blossomed strongly 

 at nearly the same time. . i 



Potted crocuses in frames are showing blossom at Colvill's ; and in the open air, in Mr. Haworth's 

 interesting little garden, Crocus pusillus is (Jan. 24.) in blossom. 



. CCXL. Orckidecs § Ophrydece. 

 2481. O'BCHIS. ^ 



fusc<5scens B. C. drying brown & _AJ cu \ jn Ysh Pennsylv. 1831. O p.lt Bot. cab. 1748 



Interesting to the botanist only. It is a native of grassy hills in Pennsylvania and of Siberia; bloomed 

 here this year in June, " kept in a cold frame, and potted in peat and vegetable earth." (Bot. Cab.) 



Orckidecs \ Vandeae 



*2530a. PERISTE V R1A Hooli. Dove Flower. {Peristera, a dove, which its column resembles.) 20. 1. OrcMdece 

 elata Hook. lofty ' jg E2 or 4. su Ysh.W Pamma 1826. D p.r Bot. mag, 3116 



