522 Pfeiffer and Otto's Cacteen. 



2540. ONCI'DIUM S1658 pulvinatum Bot. Reg. 183D, 42. 

 3516. BUltLlNGTON-M 



maculata Lindl. spotted •£_ (23 fra i my Y.b Bra2il 1837. D p.r.w Bot. reg. 1839, 44. 



" A sweet-scented epiphyte," with pendulous flowers, " obtained from 

 Brazil, by the Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in May, 1838." {Bot. 

 Keg., August.) 



-(- Dendrbbium bicamerdtum Lindl. Brought from India by Mr. Gibson, 

 for the Duke of Devonshire. The flowers are rather " smaller than those of 

 Maxillaria stapelioides, and like them in form ; their colour is a dull yellow, 

 spotted and streaked with purple." (B. M. R., No. 85., August.) 



-f- Gongo7-a nigrita Lindl. " This is by much the darkest of the gongoras, 

 the appearance of the flowers being like that of the deepest puce-coloured 

 velvet." (B. M. R., No. 86., August.) 



Phdius bicolor Lindl. Sert. Orchid, t. 25. This very handsome Ceylon 

 species has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. (B. M. R., No. 91., August.) 



Goodyera rubicunda Lindl., Neottia rubicunda Blume. " This plant has 

 flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, who received it from Manilla, through Mr. 

 Cuming." (B. M. R., No. 92., August.) 



-(- Maxillaria lentiginosa Lindl. "A plant very like M. stapelioides;" 

 " imported from Brazil by the Messrs. Loddiges." (B. M. R., No. 93.) 



-L- Vanda congesta Lindl. "A small yellow and brown-flowered species 

 from Ceylon, communicated by Messrs. Loddiges. (B. M. R., No. 94., 

 August.) 

 3601. MORMO'DES 31645 pardina Flor. Cab., No. 113. 



Seeds have been distribided by the Horticultural Society of no fewer than six 

 new kinds of pines, one Cupressus, and three Juniperi, besides a number of 

 pines, junipers, and other trees, shrubs, and plants, already in the country, 

 but quite rare. As soon as the seeds of the new species have come up, we 

 shall register them as introduced, and shall give engravings of the cones of 

 the different species of Jbietinae and C'upressinae. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Abbildung und Beschreibung, 8$c. ; that is, Figures of Cacti 

 in Flower, painted and lithographed after Nature, tvith Descriptions, 

 8fc. By Dr. Louis Pfeiffer, and M. Otto Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden at Berlin. Part I. Imp. 4to, containing 12 pages 

 of letterpress and six plates. 



This work will appear in parts, each part containing five lithographic plates, 

 and five pages of description. The figures will not be given in systematic 

 order, but, on the contrary, it will be so arranged, that every part will contain 

 plates of the species of different genera. The rich collection of drawings of 

 cactuses in flower, made in the botanic gardens of Berlin, Munich, Dyke, 

 Erfurth, and Cassel, will furnish abundance of specimens ; so that there will 

 be no danger of the work either being stopped, or appearing irregularly. The 

 descriptions will be in French and German. 



The above extract from the prospectus will give the reader an idea of this 

 work, which is sold in Berlin at a dollar each part plain, and three dollars 

 coloured. 



The plates in Part I. are, 1. Echinocactus Sellow/««« Link et Otto; 

 2. Echinocactus centeteria Lehm. ; 3. Mammillaria bicolor Lehm. ; 4. Echi- 

 nopsis multiplex Zucc. ; 5. Cereus Hookeri Link et Otto ; 6. Opuntia Sal- 

 midna Parm. ; and O. carassavica Mill. These plates are most elaborately 

 executed, and exquisitely coloured. The letterpress is copious in synonymes, 

 descriptions, and directions for culture; and, indeed, the work, taken alto- 

 gether, may be described as one of first-rate excellence. No cultivator of 

 the Cacti in Europe should be without it. 



