supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 257 



Buist MS., mentioned by Mr. Peter Mackenzie of Philadelphia, 

 in p. 209., as a splendid plant, is recorded in Jameson's Journal 

 for April, vol. xx. p. 412., as having been introduced to the 

 Edinburgh Botanic Garden, by Mr. James Macnab, in Nov., 

 1834, and'as having flowered twice there in 1835 ; subsequently, 

 with Dr. Neill, at Canonmills ; and again in the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden, in Feb., 1836. From the information com- 

 municated by Mr. Macnab, it has been imported into several 

 British collections from Mr. Buist's garden. " Nothing can be 

 more ornamental," Dr. Graham observes, " in the stove. The 

 rose-like whorls of bractete which terminate the branches have 

 been seen, on the large plants cultivated at Philadelphia, as much 

 as 20 in. across, and equal in colour to the finest tints of H\- 

 biscus jRosa-sinensis. There can be no doubt that it forms a 

 new generic type, though, in several species of Eu^hovhia, espe- 

 cially E. splendens, there are the rudiments of the remarkable 

 septa found in the involucre here. I have dedicated it, if not 

 to its original discoverer, at least to one who has first brought it 

 into cultivation, and into general notice among botanists, and 

 from whose exertions many additions to our collections of plants 

 from Mexico are expected. At Philadelphia the plant is ex- 

 posed in open air during summer ; but is placed in the stove 

 during winter, at which season, or early in spring, there, as 

 here, it seems to have its period of flowering." [Edin. New 

 Phil. Journ.y April.) 

 Orchiddcea. 



2S69. ANGR^CUM. - [r.w Bot. reg. 1844 



*ca.\xdkt\im Lindl. taiXeA-labellumed £123 cu IJ? au W Y G Sierra Leone 1834? . 



" A most remarkable new species of AngrcE'cu-niy imported from Sierri^ 

 Leone by the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collection the accompanying draw- 

 ing was made in August last. At present it is exceedingly rare, and is likely 

 to remain so ; for it seems to be one of the most difficult of the tribe to 

 manage successfully. In the nursery at Hackney, it is attached to a piece of 

 wood suspended from the roof of the stove for epiphytes. The most curious 

 point of structure in this species is the unusual length of its spur, which mea^ 

 sures 9 in. from its base to its two-lobed apex. The only parallels to this, 

 among all the orchideous plants 1 am acquainted with, are those of Habe^ 

 naria longicauda, figured in the Botanical Alagazine, t. 2957., and of A7igrcB^~ 

 cum sesquipedale of Du Petit Thouars's Orchidece, t. 66. and t. 67. For what 

 wise purposes these extraordinary appendages may have been destined by 

 nature, we may well be unable to imagine. It would seem that they must be 

 added to the vast list of objects which, to our confined apprehension, appear 

 merely intended to exhibit the endless diversity of power of the Creator,'' 

 {Bot. Reg., April.) 



2537. MAXILLA'RIA. [reg. 1848 



trufescens imrf/. brownish £ I23 cu J d Ysh spot Trinidad ?1834 D p.r.w Bot. 

 Synonyme : M. fuscata Hort. 



Described in our Vol. XI. p. 588. Imported by Mr. Low of 

 Clapton. It flowered at Chatsworth in 1834, and is now gene- 

 ral in collections ; in some, under the name of M. fuscata. " By 

 no means one of the prettiest of the genus ; nevertheless, its 



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