362 Fluricultural and Botanical Notices. 



2547. DENDRO^BIUM 28806 macrostachyum. 



In the Bot. Reg. for June, 1836, D. Lindley mentions a very curious cir- 

 cumstance connected with this plant. Dr. Lindley had received a dried spe- 

 cimen of it from Ceylon ; on examining which, he " found a minute blanched 

 portion of it that seemed still alive : this was fastened by a nail and shred to 

 a damp shady wall in a stove in the garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society, where it gradually recovered its green colour, and began to grow. By 

 tending it carefully, and not feeding it until it had recovered the effects of its 

 long fast, while buried between two sheets of brown paper in a dry chest, it 

 gradually recovei*ed, and grew into a plant, the offspring of which has been 

 distributed." {Bot. Mag., t. 1865.) 



2554. EPIDE'NDRUM [Bot. reg. 1867 



*22741. ormeniacum Lindl. apricot-coloured-Jlowered j^ [23 pr | ju Ci Brazil 1834 D p.r.w 



This species was imported by Messrs. Rollinson of Tooting ; 

 and it is readily increased by division of its tufted stems. 



" It was first seen in England, in flower, in the year 1835, at one of those 

 splendid exhibitions in the Garden of the London Horticultural Society, which 

 attest more strongly than even the country residences of our nobility and 

 gentry the skill and perseverance of English gardeners. There, in the midst 

 of the dazzling scarlet or pink of various kinds of Cactaceae, and surrounded by 

 the brilliant plumes of Chinese azalea flowers, that weighed down their grace- 

 ful branches, which really seemed as if they were proud of the lovely burdens, 

 from a basket of humble moss, a little tuft of stems of this species was seen 

 to rear its modest head, as if in hopelessness of attracting notice in so gay a 

 company. The neatness, however, of its tiny flowers, the pleasing tint of its 

 apricot-coloured petals, the elegant form of their slightly nodding, or even 

 drooping, clusters, and the novelty of their form is so well-known a genus as 

 Epidendrum, arrested the curious observer, who soon found the symmetry and 

 simple elegance of the little blossoms of Epidendrum armeniacum compensate 

 for the absence of those more obvious beauties that adorned its gaudier rivals." 

 (Bot. Reg., June.) 



[reg. 1870 



*Skinner2 Bateman MSS. Skinner's £[23 cu | jl G W Cumana 1834 D p.r.w Bot. 



Found in August, 1834, near Cumana, by Mr. Skinner. 



" It is not a pretty species, but it is very distinct from any previously de- 

 scribed, and is remarkable for its stems being dilated at the upper end, like some 

 of the species of Dendrobium." (Bot. Reg., June.) 



2483. HABENA'RIA [reg. 1858 



22506a *procera Lindl. taXl-stenmied ^ (23 cu 2 au W G Sierra Leone 1835 D p.r.w Bot. 



" This plant must have the heat of a damp stove, when in a growing state ; 

 but will doubtless partake of the habits of its kindred species, in requiring a 

 longer period of coolness and dryness, while its roots are at rest, after the 

 leaves have perished." (Bot. Reg., June.) 



hilidcecB. 



1080. HYACI'NTHUS 



*spicatus Smith spike-flowering tf A or i f Bluish Zante 1826 O l.p Bot. reg. 1869 



" Ripe seeds of this plant were gathered in April, 1826, in the island of 

 Zante, by H. F. Talbot, Esq., and were raised in his garden at Laycock Abbey, 

 Wilts. As a species, it is well marked by its crowned sessile half erect flowers, 

 and the double membranous bracts that subtend it," (Bot. Reg., June.) 



Pontederdceas. 



959. PONTEDE^R/.^ 

 *7758a CcEriilea Maund hhxe-flowered ^ jx ot 9, au B N. America 1830 D h Bot. gard. 551 



" From the unexpected loss of the specimen from which our drawing was 

 taken, we are unable to determine whether or not it be more than a variety of 

 P. cordata. When the plant flowers again this shall be noticed." (Bof. Gard., 

 June.) 



