352 New or interesting Plants. 



Published by Dr. Hooker, in the Bot. Mag.,as a native of Trinidad; but 

 Professor Lindley states it to be from Nepal. Few orchideous plants are 

 more attractive than this. The leaves are scattered over with golden 

 spots; the flowers are eminently beautiful. (Bot. Cab., May, 1832.) 



2554. EPIDE'NDRUM. 



variegatum Hook var.lvd.Sffld _£ ES or 1 ja Ysh g.spot P Rio Jan. 1S30. Dp.r.w Bot.roag. 3151 



Two or three leaves terminate each pseudo-bulb : these leaves are 

 8 to 10 in. long, strap-shaped, obtuse, striated, of a yellow green dashed 

 with deeper spots ; so that they have a variegated appearance. The raceme 

 consists of eight or ten flowers. The perianth has six spreading, somewhat 

 leathery, segments, of a yellowish green colour, yellower towards their tips 

 which are obtuse, and their upper or inner side is sprinkled almost all over 

 with blackish purple spots. Dr. Hooker says of Epidendrum variegatum, 

 " It is extremely unlike any other species of the genus with which I am 

 acquainted, and the flowers are very beautiful. The leaves, too, being 

 spotted with a darker colour, have a remarkable appearance." (Bot. 

 Mag., May.) 



Seasonable Hints on Floriculture. — By the first day of June the night 

 frosts of springmay be fairly considered as past; and, consequently, imme- 

 diately after this date, preparation may be made for transplanting into 

 vacancies, in the compartments of the hardy flower-garden, whatever 

 superfluous duplicates or multiplicates of ornamental plants the green- 

 house or the hot-house may contain. As eligible plants for out-door 

 summer decoration large plants of the fuchsias may be named, not forget- 

 ting the new species Fuchsia baeillaris, described p. 225., as soon as it can 

 be obtained. Salvia splendens, fulgens, involucrata, Graham?', and even 

 fbrmdsa, are particularly splendid; and S. ft'ilgens, planted in rich light 

 soil, at the base of a warm-aspected wall, and trained over the face of that 

 wall, forms, in autumn, an especially splendid object ; the numerous spikes 

 of scarlet flowers, produced at the extremity of its branches, having the 

 effect of marking the plant's outline with a gorgeous wreath of scarlet. 

 Petunia nyctaginifiora, whose large white flowers are very fragrant by 

 night, treated in the same way, is surprisingly improved, and rendered a 

 very ornamental subject. (See Mr. Sweet's account of the result of this 

 treatment in Vol. III. p. 297.) Pelargoniums may be copiously planted 

 out; and the trading-stemmed ivy-leaved kinds, trained over the surface of 

 little beds set apart for them, and pegged into the soil at their joints, cover 

 the earth with their glossy leaves charmingly, and flower beautifully and 

 abundantly in autumn. Maurandya Barclayawa and M. semperflorens are 

 well known summer climbers of great elegance and beauty; and although 

 there is a coarseness of aspect in that free-growing freely increasing 

 novelty, Lophospermum erubescens, it is a climber whose copious wreaths 

 of rosy blossoms excel in beauty and ornamental effect many other plants 

 the habit of which is more delicate. (See a more detailed notice of it in 

 Vol. VII. p. 201.)- Besides these, numerous house plants, which it is super- 

 fluous to enumerate, may be made conducive to the floral decoration of the 

 hardy garden ; and while thinking of the beauty of the blossoms of plants, 

 it will be well not to forget the beauties of foliage also, i^icus elastica 

 is a beautiful object in its leaves during summer and autumn, when plunged 

 over the rim of its pot in the soil of a sunny border; so also are the ex- 

 quisitely leaved New Holland acacias, and numerous other plants. In the 

 plants named above for the beauty of their blossoms Bouvard/a triphylla 

 should really have been mentioned, and our readers referred to the excel- 

 lent article by Mr. Mearns in Vol. VII. p. 48., for a mode of cultivating this 

 beautiful plant in the summer beds and borders most successfully, and also 

 for a mode of so propagating it, as to have plants of it in abundance. — /. D. 



