14 MONTHLY SCRAPS. 



Sunning Hill, from seeds received from the Swan River Colony. It is not very 

 showy, but the fringe on the petals give it a beautiful and singular appearance. 

 It is a greenhouse perennial, growing from twelve to eighteen inches high, and 

 requiring a strong rich loamy soil. Bot. Reg. 



ORCHIDACEvE § MALAXIDEiE. 



Cirrhopet alum thou arsii. Lindl. Insular Cirrhopetalum. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 t. 11. A singular and extensively diffused epiphyte, specimens of which have 

 been received from the Society Islands, Java, Isles of France and Madagascar ; 

 and Mr. Cumming has lately sent it from Manilla to Messrs. Loddiges, with 

 whom it flowered last J uly. Bot. Reg. 



§ EPIDENDREiE. 



Epidendrum floribundum. Humb. et Kunth. Many-flowered Epidendrum. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3637. An epidendrum of no great beauty, communicated by James 

 Bateman, Esq., who obtained the figure from a specimen in the collection of 

 Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers were considerably larger than the wild specimens 

 gathered on the Amazon River by Dr. Poppeg. It continues long in flower, and 

 has a neat and pleasing appearance. It was also collected by Mr. Henchman 

 in Demerara in 1834, a specimen of "which flowered in the rich stove of Messrs. 

 Lowe, of the Clapton Nursery, 1837. Bot. Mag. 



MONTHLY SCRAPS. 



BY AN AMATEUR. 



The London Collections. — Notwithstanding the apparent evidence to the 

 contrary, afforded in the fair display of the Horticultural Society on their last 

 day, there is little, nay comparatively nothing, of interest to be seen at the 

 present moment in the various nurseries round London, and scarcely more in the 

 collections of the most distinguished amateurs. We passed the other day through 

 the extensive conservatories of Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, but found no 

 novelty, nothing of peculiar interest. Even the orchideous-house, generally an 

 attraction, is now dormant. But a visit to this establishment is never thrown 

 away. Can it be accounted no gratification to stroll through the vast palm-house ? 

 At this unusually inclement season, to step suddenly from all the rigours of the 

 frost, into that forest of tropical foliage, vegetating in all the luxuriance it could 

 display in its own glowing clime, is surely an exciting transition, well worthy of 

 a pilgrimage to Hackney. 



At Messrs. Lowes', of Clapton, the absence of novelty, or any beautiful plant 

 How in bloom, is equally felt. Their last new specimen of the orchidacese was 

 drawn for Mr. Bateman's new work, upon the Mexican dynasty of that interesting 

 tribe. During this severe weather the glass is almost entirely covered with straw 

 and matting, and all looks dark and dreary in this establishment, which is one 

 that sends its plants to all parts of Europe ; indeed the extensive gardens of 



