218 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Begonlacese. 



2654. BKGO't^IA _ , „ C"],ag- 'X- P-IH. 



*mon6ptera 0«o one-wlnged J%, [23 or 2 au W Brazil 1829 D l.p Bot. mag. 35b-4. ; Gai-cl. 



" This is one of the many species of this handsome genus for 

 which our stoves are indebted to M. Otto of the Royal BerHn 

 Garden. It was introduced from Brazil to that collection in 

 1826, by M. Deppe." {Bot. Mag., April.) 



Orchiddce(^. 



*ACROPE^IlA Lindl. Acropera. (From akros, the extremity, and pSra, a small sack, or bag ; from the 

 little saccate appendage at the apex of the labellum.) [p.r.w Bot. reg. 3563. 



*LoddigesM Lindl. Loddiges's ^ [Z3 or f au.s Pale Yellow and Purple Mexico 1828. D 

 Synonyme : Maxillaria galeata Bot. Cab. 1645. 



*' A very singular epiphytous orchideous plant, Introduced 

 into the stoves of this country from Xalapa in Mexico, by Mr. 

 George Loddiges ; whence Dr. Lindley has been led to distin- 

 guish it by his name : a compliment which that liberal and able 

 horticulturist well merits. The habit of the plant is quite 

 peculiar : the racemes are quite pendent, and, in the state of bud, 

 and after the first expansion, the long and regularly decurved 

 ovaries are arranged in three rows." {Bot. Mag., April.) 



LiE'LIyl dnceps Gard. Mag. xi. 261. 



var. *Barker;anffl Lindl. Barker's ^ [Z3 el If d P Mexico 1833 O p.r.w Bot. reg. 1947. 



" A native of Mexico, whence it was procured by Messrs. 

 Low and Co. Dr. I.,indley believes it to be common in some 

 parts of that country, and that considerable quantities have been 

 recently imported. The drawing was received from the rich 

 collection of George Barker, Esq., of Birmingham." {Bot. Reg., 

 April.) 



*TRICHOCE'NTRUM Poppig. Trichocentrum. (From thrix, hair, and kentron, either a spur or a 

 centre : but the applicability of the word is not apparent.) 

 *fuscum Lindl. hxown-flowered ^ 23 cu J jl G. W.P Mexico 1835 D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1951. 

 Synonyme: Acoldium fuscum Lindl. 



Imported from Mexico, by Mr. Knight of the King's Road, 

 from whom Dr. Lindley received it in flower in July of last year. 

 It is a stove epiphyte, and, apparently, by no means of difficult 

 cultivation. {Bot. Reg., April.) 



Monstrous Myanthus cristdtus. — " Accustomed as botanists 

 now are to the freaks and masqueradings of nature, and to 

 the strangest departures from all rules, at every step among 

 orchideous plants, there is certainly nothing upon record to 

 be for a moment compared with the case now before us. It 

 is that of a plant of Myanthus cristatus changing into a Mo- 

 nachanthus, related to Monachanthus viridis, and combining in 

 its own proper person no fewer than three supposed genera: 

 Myanthus, Monachanthus, and Catasetum." 



" I doubt," says Dr. Lindley, " very much whether any one 

 would have believed in the possibility of such transmutations 

 upon weaker evidence than that I am about to produce. In this 

 very Botanical Register, vol. xii. fol. 966., in April, 1826, is 

 the following note under Catasetum cristatum : — 



