supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 461 



to Germany about two years ago; and, from the royal botanic garden at 

 Berlin, it has found its way into the collections of this country. The figure 

 published has been derived from a fine plant which blossomed in Mrs. Mar- 

 ryat's collection, at Wimbledon, in June last. The species may be pro- 

 pagated both by seeds and cuttings, and will require the same treatment as 

 the L. erubescens, and is apparently quite as hardy as that species. {The 

 Brit. Floiv.-Gard., August.) 

 CCXXI. Labidtce. 



1669. STA'CHYS \ Amblela Bentham in Labiat. Gen. and Sp. 



inflata Benth. indatei-calyxed ^A or 2? jl.au Pk N.Africa? 1832. C si Bot. reg. 1697 



Stem half-shrubby, hoary, woolly. Leaves grey above, white and woolly 

 beneath. Spike of flowers rather long ; the " thin, half-transparent, light 

 violet flowers, and neat hoary leaves, give the species a pleasing appearance." 

 The corollas are rather, according to the coloured figure, of a pink colour, 

 deepened, in parts of the border, into rose. S. inflata is apparently hardy ; 

 but, in consequence of the last two winters, it is not safe to speak confidently 

 upon this point. It has grown freely in common garden soil, in the open air, 

 in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. It is easily propagated 

 by cuttings. {Bot. Reg., August.) 



CCXXVI. HydrophyllecE. 



477. PHACE'LIA. [Bot reg. 1696 



tanacetifblia Benth. Tansy-lfd. ' O or 2 jn.jl? Light bluish violet California 1832. S co 



" This is a more elegant and less weedy plant than the P. circinata. The 

 stems are suberect, not much branched. The leaves are pinnate, and have a 

 large outline and pinnatifid pinnae. The flowers, whose corollas are of a light 

 bluish violet colour, are nearly sessile along one-sided spirally incurved ra- 

 cemes, forming together a dense dichotomous panicle placed at some distance 

 from the upper leaves. The panicles are, according to the figure, placed each 

 upon a peduncle 3 in. or more in length. P. tanacetifolia is a native of Cali- 

 fornia, where seeds of it were gathered by Mr. Douglas. In England it is a 

 hardy annual, thriving in any soil or situation." {Bot. Reg., August.) 



MoNOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



CCXXXVIII. Amaryllises. 



979. ALSTR(EME V R7^ oculStta Lod. (Bomarea oculata Penny in Gard. Mag. IX. 491.) is figured in 

 the Bot. Mag. for August, t. 3314. 



" The flowers of the present species, although, perhaps, smaller than those 

 of any other species in the genus, are amongst the most desirable for graceful- 

 ness and beauty, and remarkable for the eye-like spot in the centre of each 

 inner sepal. Forty-nine kinds of Alstroemem are enumerated in Schultes's 

 Systema Vegetabilium, several undescribed ones exist in our herbarium, and 

 others are to be met with in the stoves and green-houses of this country." 

 {Bot. Mag., August.) 



CCXL. Orchidece. 



S547. DENDR<XBIUM. [Bot, reg. 1695 



aggregatum Rox. clustered-pseudo-bulbed £ E] or 1 mr.ap Y India 1828. D p.r.w 

 " It belongs to a curious section of the genus ; all the species of which have their stems shortened 



into the pseudo-bulbous form of Bolbophyllum, and thus form a natural transition to that genus." 



— Lindley. 



The pseudo-bulbs are spindle-shaped and clustered, and about 2 in. high : 

 the leaves 3 in. long. The raceme of flowers is produced from one side of 

 the pseudo-bulb, is 9 in. or more long, devoid of flowers at its base, but in its 

 upper part bearing from ten to fifteen flowers, which are of a pale yellow 

 colour, with a portion of saffron colour towards the base of the labellum. 

 The figure exhibits what we should deem quite an ornamental species. Trees 

 in woods in the northern border of Arracan, and on the banks of the Chap- 

 padong river in the Gulf of Martaban, are native habitats in which this species 

 has been found. " It appears to require as much heat and moisture as any 

 of the Indian species : a circumstance which is explained by its inhabiting, 



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