28 ArhoricuUural Notices. 



CCXL. OrcUdece. 



9530a MYA'NTHUS Lindlei/. {Myia, a fly, antkos, a flower ; " the flowers look, when dried, very 



much like a fly pressed flat." — Lindley.) 20. 3. Sp. 1.— 



[D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1721 

 cdrnuus Liwrf/. A\(iO\nx\g,-inflorescenced _^ [Z3 or 1| ray Lu.G.P.spot Rio Janeiro 1832. 

 Synonyme: Catasfetum trifidum Hooker, Bot. Mag. No. 3262. 



In IX. 622., particulars on this are noted. The species 

 flowered in great beauty, in May, 1834, in the rich collection of 

 tropical Orchideae of the Rev. J. T. Huntley of Kimbolton. 

 The figure in the Bot. Reg. is from a beautiful drawing by Miss 

 A. Huntley. " Like all the species with the habit of the cata- 

 setums, this is very easily cultivated ; provided it is rested for 

 some months (by being kept cool and dry when not growing); 

 and is vigorously forced when in full vegetation." {Bot. Beg., 

 Dec.) 



Art. XIII. Arboricultural Notices ; or. Notices of new Hardy Trees 

 and Shrubs, deserving of General Cidtivation in Usejid or Orna- 

 mental Plantations. 



We have very little to introduce under this head at present, 

 though we trust this will not be the case long. The truth is, 

 that there are many foreign trees and shrubs in the nurseries, and 

 a great many in the arboretums of the Horticultural Society, 

 and of Messrs. Loddiges, highly deserving of a place in every 

 pleasure-ground, which are scarcely known at all to the majority 

 of gardeners. We refer, for a proof of this, to the Catalogue of 

 the Messrs. Loddiges; and we request the botanical reader to 

 remark how very few of the articles in that catalogue are to be 

 found in our shrubberies. It is much to be regretted that the 

 Horticultural Society have not yet published a catalogue of their 

 collection of trees and shrubs; for though, owing to the number 

 of duplicates, and the number of individuals which have not yet 

 flowered in their collection, such a catalogue must necessarily 

 be imperfect, it would yet do much good by stimulating gen- 

 tlemen to procure the sorts, and nurserymen to propagate them. 

 It would also induce numbers of persons throughout this coun- 

 try, and in foreign countries, to contribute what they considered 

 i;evv ; and though many of these contributions might be merely 

 duplicates, yet this appears the only practicable mode of collecting 

 everything into one focus. By doing this, and by afterwards 

 comparing the whole together, what are distinct species or 

 varieties can alone be ascertained. Experience has shown that 

 but little dependence can be placed on the catalogues either of 

 nurserymen, or even of such botanical works as are not accom- 

 panied vv'ith scientific descriptions ; for it can never be certainly 

 known that the same names are applied to the same things. We 

 can assert, without the slightest hesitation, that there is no other 

 mode of ascertaining the number of species and varieties of hardy 



