288 Floricultaral and Botanical Notices. 



CCXXI. Labiates. 



76. SA'LVIA. [Floricult. cab. fig. unpub. 



29219a dolichostachya Lag. long-spiked-i/i/Jor. *l I or 6 au.o S Mexico 1820? C l.t 



At first sight, it has the appearance of S. fulgens Cav. ; but it differs from that in most of the 



following particulars : It is twice as high .while the scarlet corollas are only one third the size; 



and are smooth, except the upper lip, which is somewhat shaggy ; the middle segment of the 

 lower lip kidney-shaped, a great deal larger than the two lateral ones; the leaves emarginate, 

 very rugose on the upper surface, and broader, the sinus at the base deeper ; the two upper- 

 most sessile ; the spikes longer, of from 7 to SO whorls, each composed of about 12 stalked 

 flowers; the upper lip of the calyx ovate, acute, with a very short incurved point. 



Mr. B. Saunders, florist, Jersey, and others in Jersey, possess plants of this 

 species ; some of which " were not," in the climate of that island (well known 

 to be always mild), " at all affected by the frosts of last winter." Mr. Saun- 

 ders received the plant some years ago from England, under the name of 

 " Salvia coccinea of Linn.;" but Professor Lagasca, now residing in Jersey, 

 has identified it with the species which he, 29 or 30 years ago, denominated, in 

 his Elenchus, S. dolichostachya. Lagasca, while director of the royal gardens 

 of Madrid, first received seeds of it, about 1802, from Mexico, from his friends 

 Sesse, Mocino, and Cervantes. From the Madrid gardens Lagasca distributed 

 it to other gardens in Europe. It is stated to be a beautiful species, which, 

 in Jersey, " grows from 5 ft. to 7 ft. high, and is a handsome bushy plant." 

 (The Floricultural Cabinet, May, 101, 102.) 



MoNOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CCXL. Orchidece. 



2542. CCELO'GYNE. [Bot. mag. 3318 



flaccida Lindl. dxoo^'mg-racemed fi 23 el 1 f W.Y Noakote in Nepal 1829. D p.r.w 



Twenty-one species of Ccelogyne are known, all natives of the East Indies, 



but of which very few have yet been received alive into European gardens. 



C. flaccida is figured from Wentworth Gardens, to which it had been given 



by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, who had received it from Dr. Wallich. It 



is an elegant species, with (in the specimen figured) a pendulous raceme of 



8 in. or 10 in. long, and eight moderately large inodorous white flowers. (Bot. 



Mag., May.) 



2558. BLE^TW. 



22753a Shepherd/ Hook. Messrs. Shepherd's ^ [Z3 or 2 ja.m Dp.P Jamaica 1825 ? D p.l Bot. mag. 3319 

 " Our plant has been cultivated, by the Messrs. Shepherd [botanic garden, Liverpool], under the 

 name of Limodbrum tuberosum ; from an idea, perhaps, that it was the L. altum vel tuberosum 

 of Jacquin. But that plant, 1 have endeavoured to prove, is the same with our Bletz'o acuti- 

 petala Bot. Mag. t. 3217. ; and the name tuberbsum being equally applicable to other species 

 of the genus, I am anxious that it should bear the name of the Messrs. Shepherd (uncle and 

 nephew), who have cultivated the orchideous as well as other plants with so much success; and 

 who have paid particular attention to the species of the present genus." {Dr. Hooker.) 



The B. Shepherdi Hook, is nearest akin to B. verecunda. The leaves are 

 H ft. long, the scape 2 ft. or 3 ft. high. Flowers, both within and without, 

 of a deep purple colour, except the column, which is pale, and the lamellae of 

 the disk of the lip, which are of a dirty yellow. Plants of B. Shepherdi are 

 in the collection at Wentworth Gardens (whence the specimen figured had 

 been derived), and in that of the Liverpool Botanic Garden. (Bot. Mag., 

 May.) ; 



CCXL. Orchidece. () Malaxideee. 



2576. LI'PARIS. 

 22804a guineensis Lindl. Guinea ^ E3 cu | s O Sierra Leone 1832. O s.p.l Bot. reg. 1671 



Is nearly related to the British L. L6'sel«. Mr. Whitfield brought plants of 

 it in 1832 from Sierra Leone. The plant figured, flowered in September, 

 1833, in the London Horticultural Society's Garden. L. guineensis " re- 

 quires to be kept in a damp stove while growing, but to be removed into a 

 cooler and dry place as soon as its leaves decay." (Bot, Beg., May.) 



CCLI. \aRacece. 



CALOCHO'RTUS. We have, in p. 178., quoted notices on the species of this genus. 



C. splendens is figured in the Bot. Reg. for May, t. 1676. ; and C. venustus in the same number, 

 1. 1669. We perceive that, in p. 178., we have omitted the height of C. venustus : this may be 

 stated as If ft. In Bot. Reg. 1676., it is stated that C. nitidus has not yet been introduced into 

 Britain ; and that " all [the species] are natives of California." The native country assigned, 

 in Hort. Brit, to C. macrocarpus and nftidus should be corrected accordingly ; and C. nitidus 

 expunged from the work until it shall have been introduced. 



