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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FEOM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



1. Cheirostyeis marmorata. Lindley, in Van Iloutte's 

 Flore des Jardins, July, 1848, t. 370. Dossinia marmorata, 

 Morren, in Ann. de Gand, iv. 171, with a figure. 



Presented to the Society, in 1848, by Mr. Hugh Low, 

 of the Clapton Nursery. 



One of the firm-leaved herbaceous Orchids, which have gained 

 a place in gardens on account of the beautiful variegations of the 

 foliage. In this case the leaves are of a deep reddish olive-green, 

 with a velvety surface, and are traversed by fine golden veins, 

 which disappear to a great extent when the leaves become old. 

 It is far less beautiful than Anoectochilus setaceum or Monochilus 

 regium — two orchids of similar habit. The flowers are white, 

 with a reddish calyx, in a long, dark purple, downy raceme. 

 Although destitute of striking beauty, they well repay a minute 

 examination, being covered with pellucid glands, and frosted, as 

 it were, over all the inner surface. 



It requires to be grown in a damp heat, and in the orchid- 

 house, and should be potted in a mixture of three parts chopped 

 sphagnum and one -third well-decayed leaf-mould. It can only 

 be increased when the plants are large, by separating portions 

 of their creeping stems. 



A kind well worth growing, where such plants are cultivated, 

 on account of its fine, large, dark-coloured foliage. 



Sept. 12, 1849. 



2. Helianthemum scoparium. Nuttall, in Torrey and 

 Gray's Flora of N. America, i. p. 152. 



Raised from seeds, picked off one of Mr. Hartweg's Cali- 

 fornian specimens, in June, 1848, and said to have 

 been gathered on the Santa Cruz mountains. 



A small, prostrate, dark green shrub, with nearly smooth wiry 

 branches, and alternate linear leaves without stipules. The 

 flowers, which are small and bright yellow, grow in twos or 

 threes at the end of the brandies on naked pedicels about half an 

 inch long. The sepals are 3 oval acuminate, and 2 subulate. 

 The petals are 5, oblong, blunt, wavy, twice as long as the calyx. 



