supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 403 



thrives in a hot damp stove, but requires to be rested after its leaves have 

 withered. These are 1 ft. long, twice the length of the scape, which is curved 

 in its upper part, and so renders the flowers pendulous : these are disposed in 

 a compact short spike. (Bot. Reg., July.) 



2554. EPIDE'NDRUM. [Bot. mag. 3332 



bieornutum Hook, two-horned.labellumed jg[Z3fral|ap W.spot Trinidad 1831? D p.r.w 



A charming species. The stem of the plant figured is nearly 1 ft. high, and 

 bore about four leaves at its extremity; the peduncle was produced from the 

 base of the uppermost of these, was 9 in. long, and bore a raceme of from 

 three to four large and highly fragrant flowers : their odour is compared to 

 that of the flowers of 7 v ris persica. Sepals and petals very much spreading, 

 1 in. long; and thus the expanded perianth is 2 in. across, pure white, broadly 

 ovate, rather acute. Labellum standing forward, spreading, three-lobed, white, 

 with a few purple small spots ; and it bears on its disk two conical divaricating 

 horns. The Messrs. Shepherd, of the Liverpool Botanic Garden, have intro- 

 duced this species into the stoves of Europe, and provisionally deemed it a 

 new species of Cattleya : " and it has many points in common with that genus." 

 The figure is derived from a plant which produced its flowers under the care 

 of " that zealous and excellent cultivator," Mr. Joseph Cooper of Wentworth 

 Gardens. (Bot. Mag,, July.) 



CCXLVII. Asphodelece. 



1053. ORNITHO'GALTJM. 



biflbrum D. Don twin-flowered tf .Al el lj ap W Peru 1832 ? O p.s Sw.fl.gar.2.s.246 

 Scilla biflbra R. # P., Pers., Sckult. 



Leaves broadly linear. Scape about 1J ft. high. Flowers, upon slender 

 rather long peduncles, in threes, pairs, or solitary, at short intervals, along the 

 upper half of the scape. Perianth white, of less breadth than a sixpence. 

 " Its habit is extremely graceful ; and its flowers are delicate and pretty." 

 Figured from the collection of Mrs. Marryat, Wimbledon, Surrey. Mr. D. 

 Don says, " It should be planted in a mixture of peat and sand ; and we have 

 no doubt of its proving nearly, if not quite, hardy." (The Brit. Flow.-Gard., 

 July.) 



3283. TRITELEI* A Hook. ( Treis, three, teleios, complete ; in allusion to the perfectly ternary- 



arrangement of its parts. — Lindley.) 6. 1. Sp. 5. — 



The above is Dr. Lindley's etymon of Dr. Hooker's word ; and it quite supersedes those guessed 

 at in Hort. Brit, genus 3283., Gard. Mag. X. 350. 178. 

 28010a laxa Benth. \zx-umbelled if ^Al or li jn.jl Dp.B California 1832? O p.l Bot. reg. 1685 



Five species of Triteleia have been described by Dr. Lindley, in Bot. Beg. 1. 1293. and 1. 1685. Of 

 T. grandiflbra, it is remarked : — " North-west America [a native of ]. Formerly cultivated in 

 the garden of the Horticultural Society, but now lost." T. pedunculitis Lindl., another of the 

 species, has not, it is stated, been yet introduced ; and we suppose that the two remaining species 

 are also in this last case. 



T. laxa seems, consequently, to be the only species alive in Britain. To 

 the information quoted on this plant in p. 178., we may now cite, in addition, 

 the following : — " No plant can be more easy to cultivate ; it will grow in 

 common garden soil ; but prefers such a mixture of peat, loam, and sand as is 

 found in a border of American plants. It appears to be perfectly hardy ; and, 

 if allowed to remain undisturbed, will propagate itself by offsets as well as by 

 seeds." A plant of it, in the Horticultural Society's garden, has borne twenty 

 flowers in an umbel. (Bot. Reg., July.) 



CCLI. \alidcece, 



1027 YU' CCA 



•f-8517 superba Haw. superb- rn/Zor. * or 9 au W.St.P. .... ... Sk r.l Bot. reg. 1690 



Y. gloribsa Bot. Bep. 473. ; but it differs from Y. gloribsa L. " in the shape of its corolla, and in 

 its arborescent stem." — Havuorth. " Its leaves are more acutely pointed than those of Y. glo- 

 ribsa." — Herbert. 



The specimen figured is from a plant which Mr. Herbert bought, twenty 

 years ago, of Mr. Malcolm, nurseryman, Kensington. Mr. Herbert has spoken 

 of it as follows : — " It is unquestionably the most magnificent plant in the 

 flower-garden. The flower-stem rises 8 ft. or 9 ft. high ; and the profusion of 

 blossom is so great, that, as the lateral shoots are rather suberect than diverg- 

 ing, a pin cannot be passed between the flowers in the centre of the column. 

 The deep crimson of the stalks and stem, and the purple stripe on the outer 



