76 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Orchidilceai. 



*CIILOR^A 



longiuracteata Bcnth. long-bractcd £ [23 cu 1 s.o W.Y Chile 1837. D l.p Bot. no. 94. 



"The genus Chlorsea comprehends about twenty-two species, 

 all natives of the Chilian states, where they are to be found from 

 the verge of perpetual snow on the Andes. Some few, like a 

 portion of our British orchises, embellish the rich grassy meadows 

 of the valleys ; but the greatest number prefer those dry rocky 

 wastes which give to the mountainous districts of Chile so deso- 

 late an appearance in summer. . . . Although the flowers of the 

 original species are of a greenish colour, which occasioned the 

 adoption of the name of Chlorae x a for the genus, still several of 

 those discovered by Dr. Poppig have large flowers of a pure 

 white, or of a rich yellow, and are highly ornamental." This 

 species is the first of this interesting genus that has been in- 

 troduced into England. It was brought from Valparaiso by 

 Mr. Crook in 1837, and flowered for the first time in the stove 

 of W. J. Myers, Esq., of Aigburgh, near Liverpool. (Botanist, 

 Nov.) 



2553. CATTLE'Y/f 28722 guttata var. RusselWrca Hook., Lord Edward Russel's, Bot. Mag. t. 3693. 



A superb variety of Cattley« guttata, which " was brought to 

 the Woburn collection from Brazil, together with many other 

 rare South American vegetable productions, in the spring of 

 1838, by Captain Lord Edward Russell, R.N.;" to whom it 

 was given "by the director of the Botanic Garden at Rio, with 

 the information that it was one of two specimens that had been 

 recently discovered in the Organ Mountains." (Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



2547. DENDRO'BIUM [ser. t. 65- 



*sulcatum Lindl. furrowed jg 23 or 1 ap O India 1837 D moss Bot. reg. 2d 



A very singular species, brought over from India by Mr. 

 Gibson, which flowered at Chatsworth in April last. " It is a 

 fine species, nearly related to D. Griffith ianum, from which it 

 differs in its three-flowered peduncle, and in the form of the 

 lip." (Bot. Reg., Dec.) 



+ D. deniidans D. Don. This species was sent home by Mr. 

 Gibson, the Duke of Devonshire's collector in India. " The 

 stems are erect, about 6 in. high;" and "are covered with a 

 profusion of nodding racemes of rather small green and white 

 flowers." (B. M. B., Nov., No. 156.) 



3412. STANHO v PE4 



tigrlna Bate. tiger-Jlowered £ [Z3 or 2 jn.jl P.Y Mexico 1837. D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1839, 1. 



This species was figured by Mr. Bateman, in his splendid 

 work on the Orchidacese of Mexico and Guatemala, but, by some 

 mistake, was omitted by us in our Floricultural Notices for the 

 past year, though referred to in our notice of No. 2. of Mr. 

 Bateman's work. (See Vol. XIV. p. 435.) The flowers of this 

 species are longer and handsomer than those of any other species 

 of the genus, not even excepting those of "the magnificent 

 S. devoniensis." "It was originally imported from the neigh- 



