422 Floriculhiral and Botanical Notices. 



Begojiihceas. 



2654. BEGO'N/^ [of bot. 125 



*jt)latanif61ia Paxt. Plane-tree-leaved « □ or 10 s Pkish Brazil 1829 C It.l Paxt. mag. 



This species, which, when well grown, produces leaves up- 

 wards of a foot in diameter, is seldom met with in a flowering 

 state in British stoves, though it flowers freely in those of Paris. 

 A plant of it flowered lately with Mr. Cameron in the Birming- 

 ham Botanic Garden, from which Mr. Paxton's figure was 

 taken. [Paxton's Mag. of Bot., July.) 



♦Fischerz otto Fischer's tL □ or 2 f.mr.ap ?S. Arner. 1835 D p.l 



This plant, which was received from M. Otto of Berlin, 

 flowered in the stove of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 

 February and March, 1836. The flowers are small, but the 

 foliage is exquisitely beautiful. {Jam, Journ., July, 1836.) 



f28542 sanguinea Rad. hXooAy-leaved tt. □ or 2 ap W Brazil 1832 D co Hort. bot. berol. 13 



This species is more remarkable for the colour and texture of 

 its leaves, which are green above and blood-red below, than for 

 its flowers, which are small and white ; or its habit, which is 

 herbaceous-like or subligneous and straggling. It was raised 

 in the Berlin Botanic Garden, from seed transmitted by Sello 

 from Brazil in 18'23, and sent to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden 

 in 1832, where it flowered in April, 1836. 



OrchiddcecE. 



2521. RODRIGUE'Z/J 



*planif61ia Lz»£?/. flat-leaved £ [Z3 fra C?]f i;?]Brazil [;?:D p.v.w Botnaag. t. 3504. 



[by inference, not of Hort. Brit. No. 22633 

 Synonyme : 2522 Gomfeza 22633 recfirva of Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 660., not of Bot. Mag. t. 1748., and, 



" This deliciously fragrant plant, named Gomez« (Rodri- 

 guezm Lindl.) recurva by Mr. Loddiges, but distinguished from 

 that species by Professor Lindley on account of the even (not 

 striated) surface of its leaves, and the entii'e, not emarginate, 

 lip, has been kindly communicated by Mr. Campbell of the 

 Belfast Botanic Garden, where it was imported from Brazil. It 

 flowers in February." [Bot. Mag., July.) 



2S37o. *BIFRENA^RIA Lindl. (Bifrenaria ; bis, twice ; frcenum, a bridle ; in allusion to the double 



strap, or frtcnum, that connects the pollen masses with their gland.) Sp. 1. Orckid&cecE 



Vdndece.) [Bot. reg. 1875. 



*aurantlaca Lindl. orange. coloxxxeA-flowered £ E] or f o O Demerara ? 1834 D p.r.w 



Pretty. It flowered in the Duke of Devonshire's hot-house at 

 Chiswick, in 1835. {Bot. Reg., July.) 



2554. EPIDE'NORUM [? 1834 D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1879 



*bifidum Aubl. hare- or \)\fiA.lipped ^ [Z3 or 1| jl P Y W G W. Indies, Tortola, Cayenne 



" A very remarkable and distinct species, with a peculiar slit 

 lip, by which it is readily known from all except E. auropur- 

 pureum, a kind that appears to be very nearly related to it." 

 {Bot. Reg., July.) 



[1834 D p.r.w Bot. reg. t. 1870 

 *[ Affinity near E. concolor] clav&tum lAndl. c\v!os,temmed £ [Z3 cu f jl G. W Cumana 



This is the same as that noticed in p. 362. by the name of 

 E. Skinner/. Dr. Lindley has superseded this name by the one 

 above. " It was procured by Mr. Henchman for Messrs. Low 



