72 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



sea-shore within reach of the waves. He communicated seeds of it to 

 Mr. Low of the Clapton Nursery, from which have arisen the plants figured. 

 The picture in the Bot. Reg. is from a plant which flowered in Mr. Low's 

 nursery ; that in the Bot. Mag. from a plant which has " flowered beautifully 

 in Mr. Cunningham's nursery, at Comely Bank, Edinburgh." The leaves are 

 linear, sword-shaped, and nearly all radical. The stem, unbranched, has its 

 lower part garnished with about three leaves, and is terminated by a head of 

 white flowers. The flower resembles that of the TradescanU'a virginica nivea, 

 but is obviously smaller. The plant's " rootstocks form a number of crowns 

 by which it may be propagated, and it will probably ripen seeds in the green- 

 house." We have ventured to prescribe the frame as the fitter habitation. 

 (Bot. Reg., Dec. 1833 ; Bot. Mag., Jan. 1834.) 



CCXL. OrcUdece. 



CY'CNOCHES Lindl. [Not explained, but probably from kyknos, a swan, which the flower may 

 be fancied to resemble.] [Bot. cab. 2000 



Loddigfesw Lindl. Loddiges's £ £2 or 1 my Br.spot Surinam. 1830. D p.moss.potsh. 



This plant produces very extraordinary flowers. " Dr. Lindley has given it 



the above name, and has published it in his excellent work the Genera and 



Species of Orchideous Plants." Messrs. Loddiges received the plant from 



Mr. Lance. They " have preserved it in the stove planted in moss and 



broken bits of pot, and suspended from a rafter ; but it has not yet increased." 



(Bot. Cab., Dec.) 



2524. CIRRH^A. [Bot. cab. 1999 



Warrearca B. C. Mr. Warre's £ 23 or * ... Y.var Brazil 1831 ? D p.moss.potsh 



Discovered by Mr. Warre, who communicated it to Messrs. Loddiges. " It 

 bears a strong resemblance to the other species. They are all highly in- 

 teresting and curious plants, well deserving every possible care in cultivation. 

 Like the others, it will admit of occasional increase by separating its offsets." 

 (Bot. Cab., Dec.) 



CYRTOCHPLUM H. 8f Kth. (Kyrtos, convex, cheilos, a lip ; form of the labellum.) 20. 1. 



flavescens Lindl. straw-cld.-./Zwo'. ^E3 orl jn Str.spot Mexico 1830. D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1627 



The handsome flowers, borne in a raceme, have yellow sepals and petals, 

 and a labellum yellow, spotted with red. " It is interesting not only for its 

 beauty, but also as being the first species of the genus which has yet blos- 

 somed in Europe. Its flowers, like those of the other species, turn yellow in 

 drying. Possessed by R. Harrison, Esq., of Aigburgh. It was imported by 

 Mi*. Tate. (Bot. Reg., figure in November ; text in December.) 



CCXL VII. AsphodelecB. 



3338. HESPEROSCO'RDUM Lindl. (Hesperos, the west, skordon, garlic ; a native of the western 



world, and allied to the genus .4'llium or Garlic.) 6. 1. Sp. 2. — 

 28178a lacteum Lindl. white-perianthed. tf A pr H jl W California 1833. O co Bot. reg. 1639 



H. lacteum has " very much the aspect of some white-flowered allium. 

 Mr. Douglas, who found it in California, sent thence bulbs (cormi) of it to the 

 London Horticultural Society, in whose garden it flowered, for the first time 

 in Europe, in July, 1833. It seems to grow freely in any sort of soil, and 

 will probably thrive if left to its fate in the open border all winter." 

 H. lacteum is very like the H. hyacinthinam, from which it differs in having 

 smaller flowers ; and especially in these being disposed in a less compact 

 umbel, with the stalks (pedicels) rather more than twice as long as the flowers 

 themselves. (Bot. Reg. Jan.) 



CCLVI. Kroidece. 



331a ANTHXTRIUM Schott fy Endlicher. (Anihos, a flower, oura, a tail ; the floriferous spadix 



tail-shaped.) 4. 1. 

 " Messrs. Schott and Endlicher have lately, in a very elaborate memoir, separated (and, we think, 

 rightly) the American plants usually referred to Pathos from that genus, and have given them 

 the new name of Anthfirium. The type of the genus Pdthos, in the acceptation of these learned 

 botanists, is the P. scandens Bot. Reg. 1337." {Lindley.) 



[Bot. reg. 1635 

 +2784 gracile Lindl. slender-spadixed £ !2S cu f my.jn. G Trinidad, Demerara 1825. Sk s.p 

 Pbthos gracilis Rudge, Hort. Brit., No. 2784. 



It has little beauty when in flower ; but its spikes of crimson berries give 

 it a pretty appearance when in fruit. It requires a treatment similar to that 

 of epiphytal orchideous plants. (Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



