590 FloriciiUural and Botanical Notices. 



" In habit is very like F. elegaiis, from which it is principally 

 distinguished by the tapering form of its leaves and the shape of its 

 lip. Mr. Knight has imported a plant or plants of F. acuta, 

 in whose collection it flowered in June last. [Bot. Reg..^ Oct.) 



2572a. PHYSOSrPHON Lindl. [Physa, an inflated containing object, siphon, a tube ; the calyx 



tubular, inflated at the base.) 20. 1. Sp. 3. 

 The species have the habit of species of Pleurothalhs. [cab. 1601 



t29270 Loddigfes!? Lindl. Loddiges's ^ 1Z3 cu J mr.my O New Spain 1828 D p.r.w Bot. 

 Synonyrae, Stalls tub&taXorfrf. Bot. cab. 1601., and Loudon's Hort. brit. No. 29270. 

 Sp. 2d, eraarginata Lindl. ; synonyme, PleurothAllis emargin^ta Lindl. Gen. et sp. orch. pi. p. 6. 

 Sp. 3d, spiralis Lindl. &^\Ta\-spiked from Port St. Catharine in Brazil. 



2547«. SPECKLl'N/^. 



atropurptirea i?nd;. Aixk-^wrple-flowered .^ E] ... I or | D. P Jamaica 1834? 

 This species is to be added to those that had been described, I believe in Lindl. Gen. et sp. orch. 

 pi. Dr. Lindley has examined a dried specimen in Dr. Hooker's herbarium: it had been 

 cultivated in the Liverpool Botanic Garden. Dr. Lindley has deemed it probable that "several 

 i spurious Dendrobia of authors" are species of Speckltnza, " especially " Dendrbbium re- 



tfisum La Have, Specklinz'a rettisa Lindl. ; D. scaribsum La Llave, S. scaribsa Lindl. ; D. pu- 

 sillum Hum. Ss Ktk., S. pusi'Ua Liiidl. ; D. acuminatum Hum. Sf Ktk., S. acuminata Lindl. ; 

 D. ^legans Hum. ^ Kth., S. elegans Lindl. 



t3455. GOVE'N/.^ LindJ. (So named in compliment to James Robert Gowen, Esq., under whose 



care were conducted many of the curious experiments upon cross fertilisation at Highclere, 



the seat of the Earl of Caernarvon." — Lindley.) 21.1. Sp. 2. or 3 



t28896 superba Lindl. su^exh-aspected Jj; [Z3 spl 5 f.mr O Mexico 1828 D s.lt Bot. reg. 1795 



" Govitnia superba Lindl, in Lodd. Bot. cab. t. 1709." Synonyme, Maxillaria superba Lexarsa S( 



La Llave. 



Stem with the leaves 5 ft. high, leaves 3 ft. and more. Raceme 

 of flowers 1 ft. to l^ft. long, of numerous flowers. "It is one 

 of the handsomest plants of the whole order of Orchidese, and is 

 especially remarkable for its stately appearance, the rich orange 



of its flowers, and the long time they continue open It is 



found to bear the hottest and dampest stove, but, like all the 

 terrestrial species, requires a season of repose." This species 

 has flowered in Britain, in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges 

 and in that of Mr. Bateman. Dr. Lindley has given some ac- 

 count and a diagnostic of another species, which he has distin- 

 guished from specimens collected in Mexico by Count Karwinski, 

 and belonging to the royal herbarium of Munich. Dr. Lindley 

 has notified, besides, that Maxillaria /iliacea of some author or 

 authors (he has not stated which) " is also, in all probability, a 

 Govenia, and " that it " may be named Govenia liliacea." {Bot. 

 Reg., Oct.) 



CCXLII. Mara?itaceae. 



1. CA'NNA 33 glauca [Bot. mag. 3437 



3 rilbro-lfitea jHbo/f. ycllovf.and-red-corollaed ig E] or 4 J au Y.R Jamaica 1834? D r.m 



" It may be reckoned among the handsomest of the genus, es- 

 pecially if the foliage be considered as well as the flower, the 

 leaves being remarkably elongated, and of a delicate glaucous 

 hue, while the large blossoms are varied with red or yellow." 

 Dr. Hooker did not dare to venture to consider it other than 

 a variety of glauca. The kind is living in the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden : Mr. M'Fayden had sent it there from Jamaica. {Bot. 

 Mag., Oct.) 



CCXLIII. Musdcese. 



746. MU'S^. In the notice on CratJe^gus mcxictaa M. St S., in p. 583., is information on a species of 

 IttCisa. 



