622 FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



tcnax Nut. and X. wsphodcloules Nut. (the Helonias flsphodcloides L.) 



are one and the same as X. setifolium Mx. If this be the case, Nos. 9131. 



and 9132. of Hort. Brit, imply but one plant. X. .sctifoliian Mx. "grows 



wild in various parts of North America, especially in the sterile tracts 



called pine barrens, both on the east and west side of the continent. The 



natives inhabiting the highlands of the Rocky Mountains, where it is 



abundant, weave their water-tight baskets out of its tenacious leaves." 



CCXXXVIII. Amari/tlid&ie. 



979. ALSTROEME'R/^. 

 28163flaurantlaca /).Z)o?j oxansy.flwd. tf7ijspl2jn O.spot Chile 1831. D l.p Sw.fl.gar.2.s.205 

 ? A. aurea Hort., Penny in Gard. Mag., vol. ix. p. 490. 



" We fear that this very showy plant is scarcely entitled to be considered 

 in any other light than as a mere variety of A. Simsii Swt. ; and from which 

 it is distinguished by, besides colour, chiefly its perfectly glabrous leaves, 

 by the lanceolate and more pointed inner leaflets of the perianth, and by 

 their longer and narrower claws : but the erect species of Alstrcemer/a are 

 found to vary so exceedingly, that we are sceptical of any definition that 

 can be given of them. Introduced from Chile by Mr. Anderson, the inde- 

 fatigable collector, who accompanied Captain King in his voyage of survey 

 in South America. The plant requires the same treatment as A. Simsz7, 

 and appears to be quite as hardy as that species. Our drawing was taken 

 in the Clapton Nursery, in June last." (^Tlie Britisfi Ftower-Gar'den, Sept.) 

 We presume this is the very kind of which Mr. Penny has, in our last 

 Number (p. 490.), thus spoken : — "A. aurea Hort., closely related to A. 

 psittacina; and, like that species, easily increased by division. The flowers 

 are bright yellow, inclining to orange colour, with crimson lines on the 

 upper segments : it is a beautiful species." 



Mr. Don takes occasion to remark, that the interesting physiological 

 fact exhibited in the resupinate leaves of the alstroemerias, and which we 

 have quoted in Vol. VIII. p. 724., from Dr. Lindley, and supposed had ori- 

 ginated with that author, was the discovery of Dr. Brown, some time since. 



CCXL. OrcludecB § Vandege. 



2521. CIRRH^^A. [Bot. cab. 1967 



22642. viridi-purpUrea SC. green anrf purple ^(23 or | my G.P.spot Brazil 1827. D It.mosspotsh 

 This is the species which we have indicated in Vol. VIII. p. 725. ; and the Gongbra viridi-pur. 

 purea of Hooker in Bot Mag., t. 2978. 



" This curious plant has been lately introduced. The flowers are dis- 

 posed in a pendulous raceme ; and, in that exhibited in the plate, are 

 eleven in number : their segments are of a lanceolate form, and have a 

 green ground colour, abundantly spotted with transverse blotches or spots 

 of a purple colour. We should say it is an elegant and beautiful plant. 

 (Bot. Cab., Sept.) 



2530. CATASE^TUM. [Bot. mag. 3262 



22656a trifidum i?oot. triM-lipped £Elorl*my Lu.G.spot Trinidad 1832. D p.r.w 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, waved, striated ; of a bright but pale green 

 above, pale and somewhat glaucous beneath. Scape from the base of the 

 stem nearly li ft. high. Flowers large, of a lurid green colour, tinged and 

 copiously spotted with purple, disposed in a lax drooping spike. A beauti- 

 ful and most interesting species, sent home alive by Mr. Lockhart. (Bot. 

 Mag., Sept.) 



OrchidecB § EpidendrecB. Bletea /«yacinthma is figured in the Botanical 

 Cabinet for September, t. 1968., whei'e Messrs. Loddiges remark, that "it 

 has been usual to keep this plant in the stove; but we find it to grow and 

 thrive in a far superior manner in the green-house. It should be potted in 

 vegetable earth, with a portion of sand ; and it increases itself freely by 

 offsets from the bulbs. The flowers are produced during the spring 

 months ; they are exceedingly beautiful : their colour baffles art more than 

 that of many others, its clearness and brilliancy in the living specimen being 

 absolutely inimitable." 



