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BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



CONVOLVULACEjE. Juss. 



IpoMiEA Schiedeana. Hamilton, not Luccarini. Bot. Reg. This is a splen- 

 did climber, introduced by seed sent by that distinguished botanist Dr. William 

 Schiede, after whom it has been named. The seeds were sent to Dr. Hamilton 

 of Plymouth, who gave some to Mr. Pontey, by whom they were sown, and last 

 June produced the present plant. The flower which first opened exceeded in 

 size and splendour any which have succeeded it, exceeding in diameter four 

 inches, and of a bright cserulean blue ; and the number of flower-buds could 

 not have been less than 500, of which as many as fourteen have been opened at 

 once, making a most splendid appearance. 



Seeds have been distributed by Dr. Hamilton to Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney, 

 Botanic Garden, Liverpool, and Professor Deveau, the Curator of the Botanic 

 Garden, Angers. It is allied to Ipomcea rubro-ccerulea. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



IRIDEjE. Juss. 



Babiana ringens. Herbert. Bot. Beg. p. 18. This species is a native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and flowered at Spofforth in July, and ripened its 

 seeds standing out of doors in pots of sandy loam. It is completely separated 

 from Antholyza by its seed. Its deep rich scarlet blossoms are highly ornamental. 

 Bot. Beg. 



ORCHID ACEiE TRIBE MALAXIDEiE § PLEUROTHALLEiE. 



Pleurothallis circumplexa. Lindl. Enwrapped Pleurothallis. Bot. Mag. 

 p. 24. A curious species, obtained from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges. It 

 approaches P. saurocepliala and prolifera, but differs in the peduncle being strictly 

 embraced by the base of the leaf. The flowers are small, and of a dirty brownish 

 yellow colour. Bot. Reg. 



§ DENDROBIEiE. TRIBE EPIDENDREiE. 



Epidendrum lacerum. Lindl. Lacerated Epidendrum. Bot. Reg. p. 17- 

 A native of Havannah, introduced in the spring of 1885 by Captain Sutton, and 

 added to Sir Charles Lemon's collection at Carclew, where it flowered in 

 December, 1836. It is allied to E. elongatum, but it is of a more lax and slender 

 habit. The leaves are much narrower and thicker, the stem is erect, not zigzag, 

 as in E. elongatum, and the labellum is larger and deeper fringed. Bot. Reg. 



Epidendrum tesselatum. Bateman. Checker-flowered Epidendrum. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3688. A pretty Epidendrum of the odoratissima section, a native of 

 Guatemala, and sent by Mr. Skinner to Knypersley in 1836, where it flowered 

 in June and July last. Bot. Mag. 



B ulboph yllum setigerum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. p. 21. A curious little epi- 

 phyte, obtained by Messrs. Loddiges from Demerara. The flowers are small, 

 and of a dull purple upon a light green ground. The structure is remarkable 

 in the presence of a minute tubercle at the base of the petals on the outside, 

 which in another species, B. bracteolatum, from the same country, is in the form 

 of a distinct scale. Bot. Reg. 



