5 18 FloricuUural and Botanical Notices. 



2564. VA'NDA 



*tSres taper-leaved £ C3 or 2 jn P.y Silhet 1837 D p.r.w Paxt. mag. of bot. p. 93. 



This is a most remarkable plant ; the leaves being so perfectly 

 cylindrical as to have the appearance of branches. The flower 

 is very^arge, and of extraordinary beauty ; the petals being of a 

 most brilliant light purple, and the labellum bright dark yellow, 

 spotted in lines with brown and red. " It is, indeed, an object 

 that is scarcely surpassed in beauty by any of the splendid 

 family to which it belongs." It is, " in the strictest sense of the 

 term, an epiphyte;" that is to say, it requires no soil to its 

 roots, " but merely to be secured to a block of wood, and its 

 lowermost roots protected with moss." Messrs. Loddiges have 

 plants of it for sale. It is of slow growth, and difficult to propa- 

 gate. 



PERISTE^RIA [vol.ii. p. 99. 



•guttata Knowl. Sf West, spotted ^ (23 or i au R.Y S. America 1837 D p.r.w Flor. cab. 



This species is nearly allied to P. cerina, of which it may 

 possibly be only a spotted variety. It was imported by Mr. 

 Knight of the Exotic Nursery, King's Road, from Rio, and 

 flowered, for the first time in Europe, in the stove of George 

 Barker, Esq., Springfield, near Birmingham. [Flo7\ Cah., Sept.) 



-h Bryohium pubescens Lindl. A little green-flowered East 

 Indian orchidaceous plant, found in many collections, a short 

 character of which was given by Dr. Lindley in his Natural 

 System of Botany^ but which he has here described more at 

 length. {B. M. B., Oct., No. 145.) 



+ Catasetum Miller'i Loddiges. This plant, which is a native 

 of Brazil, has a stem 2 ft. high, and dull spotted flowers, with a 

 half green lip. It was named in honour of Dr. Miller of H. M. 

 ship Victory, a zealous collector of rare plants. [B. M. R., Oct., 

 No. 149.) 



+ Cirrhopetalum cornutum Lindl. A native of the Khoseea 

 Hills, where it was found growing on rocks by the Duke of 

 Devonshire's collector, Mr. Gibson. The leaves are 6 or 8 

 inches long, and the flowers dull purple, " with the lateral sepals 

 united above their base into a kind of horn." It flowered at 

 Chatsworth in August last. {B. M. B., Oct., No. 138.) 



+ Saccolabium calceoldre Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch., p. 223. 

 Found by Mr. Gibson on the Khoseea Hills, growing on trees 

 400 ft. above the level of the sea. It has flowered at Chats- 

 worth, where it produced " small yellow flowers, blotched with 

 reddish brown." {B. M. R., Oct., No. 139.) 



+ Polystachya ramulosa Lindl. " A native of Sierra Leone, 

 whence it was imported by Messrs. Loddiges, who flowered it in 

 Sept. 1838. It is a small green-flowered plant, with the liabit 

 of P. luteola, but more branched, and with branchlets at the 

 base of its ramifications." {B. M. R., Oct., No. 142.) 



