424? FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



A. clandestinum, teretifolium, and distichum have already flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, 



{Bot. Reg., July.) 



2551. PHOLIDO'*TA. {" Pholis a scale, ous, Stos an ear ; in allusion to the scaly ear.like bracteae 



of the spike." Lindleil, under the description of the species figured in Bot. Reg.,'t. 1213., 



now to be called pallida Lindl.) 21. 1. Sp. 2. [reg. 1777 



imbricata Lindl. imbricated-irarfed ^ El cu 1 ? my Ysh Nepal 1824 D p.r.w Bot. 



Synonymy : P. imbricata Lindl. in Hook. Exot. Fl., 1. 138. ; Loddiges' Bot. Cab., 1. 1934. ; Lindley, 



in Bot. Reg. t. 1777. 

 y>k\\iA3L Lindl. fa.\e-flowered ^ E] cu i? ... W.India ... D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1213 

 Synonymy : P. imbricata Lindley, in Bot. Reg., t. 1213. ; but distinct from P. imbricata Lindley, 

 in Bot Reg., 1. 1777., where Dr. Lindley has noted points of distinctness between the two, has 

 abrogated the application of the epithet imbric&ta to this second, and proposed the application, in 

 the stead of it, of the epithet pallida. 



" They principally differ in the following particulars. P. pal- 

 lida has very round blunt bracts, white flowers, smaller leaves, 

 and grows very weakly and unwillingly under ordinary circum- 

 stances. P. imbricata has pointed bracts, yellowish flowers with 

 a dash of violet, very long strong leaves, and grows and flowers 

 most freely." The figure of P. imbricata presented is from speci- 

 mens communicated by R. Harrison, Esq. [Bot. Reg., July.) 



2564. VA'NDA. (The Hindoo name of the original species, T. Roxburgh^.) 



Roxbfirghzi Lindl. [t. 506. ; Sims, in Bot. Mag. 2245 



1 tessellSta Hook., sepals and petals tessellated. Synonyme: V. Roxburgh;'? Br. in Bot. Reg., 



a vmicoloi Hook, sepals and petals •whole-coloured j^ [23 cu 5 J... Chestnut brown 



[C p.r.w Bot. mag. 3416 



This second variety is figured from the collection of Earl Fitz- 

 william, from a plant 5 ft. high, bearing several lateral branches, 

 and throwing out many tortuous roots. In the flowers of the 

 variety tessellata Hook., the upper side of the sepals and petals 

 is of a greener hue and distinctly tessellated, like the corolla of 

 the common fritillary ; in the variety unicolor Hook., this part is 

 of an uninterrupted glossy chestnut-brown colour. The large 

 middle lobe of the labellum is tinged of the same colour, instead 

 of being purple, as in V. Roxburgh// var. tessellata. (Bot. Mag.^ 

 July.) 



CCXLVII. Asphodelea. 



1066. STYPA'NDRA. [1823 C s.p.l. Bot. Mag. 3417 



8913(1 proplnqua Gun. near akin to S. glaiica £ lA! or 1 ? sp azure Interior of New South Wales 



Figured from Kew Gardens, where, though living from the 

 time of its being introduced, it has not, under any mode of cul- 

 ture to which it has been subjected, shown itself a plant of free 

 growth. In a dry warm part of a green-house it annually puts 

 forth its pretty azure-perianthed yellow-anthered flowers in the 

 spring. Its seeds have not yet been produced in Britain ; it 

 "may be increased by cuttings." [Bot. Mag., July.) 



\The Carnations and Picotees in the Collection of Mr. Hogg, 

 Paddington, have been in high display of the beauty of their 

 flowers since about the middle of July ; they were deemed to 

 be in the meridian of their beauty about the 1 7th or 1 8th. The 

 varieties of yellow picotee, or picotee with yellow ground, are 

 becoming numerous. Mr. Hogg has raised several seedlings of 

 this kind, which are of high quality. — J. D.] 



