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yellow labellum, richly spotted with crimson, is a beautiful 

 object, when closely examined." [Bat. Reg.^ April.) 



3478. PERISTE^RI A Hoo;5:. [3479 



*pendula Hook, pendulous ^ 23 or 1 ja Gsh W Demerara ? 1835 D p.r.w Bot. mag. 



" This fine plant unquestionably belongs to the curious genus 

 Peristeria, of which only one species (P. elata Bot. Mag., 

 t. 3116.) was hitherto known, and that was a native of Panama. 

 The present one was imported, with many other varieties, from 

 Demerara, by John Allcard, Esq., in whose stove, at Stratford 

 Green, it flowered in January of the present year, and who 

 kindly sent us the drawing here engraved, from the pencil of 

 V. Bartholomew, Esq., Associate of Painters in Water Colours." 

 {Bot. Mag., April.) 



Amaryllhceee. 



* Sceptranthes Graham (from skeptron, a sceptre, and anthos, 

 a flower; in allusion to the length of the perianth, which is 2 in. 

 Jong, and I5; in. across) f Drummond/V. This is a new name, pro- 

 posed by Dr. Graham to be given to the Zephyranthes Drum- 

 mond/V of Don, in Sweet's IBrit. Flow.-Gard., 328., and our 

 No. *8022«, p. 184. The reason given is as follows:' — " The 

 length of tube, and especially the adhering filaments, seem to 

 me to remove the plant trom the genus Zephyranthes ; the 

 greater shortness of the tube, the less flattened limb, and the 

 stipitate germen prevent me from uniting it to the genus 

 Cooperm." {Edin. New Phil. Journ., April.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. Second 

 Series. Vol. I. Part V. 4to. London, 1833. 



(Continued from p. 85.) 



43. Journal of Meteorological Observations made in the Garden of 

 the Horticiiltural Society, at Chisivick, during the Year 1831. By 

 Mr. Robert Thomson, Under Gardener in the Fruit Department. 



44. A Report upon the Varieties of the Bean cidtivated in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society. By Mr. George Gordon, Under Gar- 

 dener in the Kitchen-Garden Department. 



This Report and one on Peas, by the same experienced author, 

 which we shall give in next Number, " are intended to reduce the 

 discordant nomenclatureofthe seed-shops to something like order; 

 to enable the gardener to know the quality of the sorts he is 

 unaccustomed to cultivate ; and, above all, to prevent his buying 

 the same kind under different names. The results which have 

 been arrived at are taken from the observations of several sue- 



