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more mottled with deep brown ; the labellum is ovate, acuminate, the same length 

 as the petals, instead of being oblong, lanceolate, and longer than the flowers. 

 Bot. Reg. 



Calanthe discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. In this species the lip is delicately- 

 white, with a few dots of pink near the base. The sepals and petals are on 

 the contrary of a deep reddish brown, and little disposed to be striped. The 

 species of this genus will do well in a greenhouse. Bot. Reg. 



I Calanthe bicolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. The flowers of this species are larger 

 than the preceding, bright yellow inside, and rich orange on the outside, and 

 when spread open they are nearly two inches in diameter. These two species 

 have been figured in Dr. Lindley's Sertum Orchiclaceum. Both are small species 

 not at present exceeding a foot in height. Bot. Reg. 



Calanthe furcatum. Bateman. Bot. Reg. This is a white-flowered 

 species, about the same height of the preceding, received by J. Bateman, Esq., 

 fronrthe Luzon Islands, where it was collected by Mr. Cuming. 



Cyrtochilum mystacinum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. A Peruvian species, which 

 flowered in the stove of R. Harrison, Esq., of Aighbury, in October, 1837. It 

 has a branched stem, like that of an oncidium, bright yellow-coloured flowers, 

 with a most curious fringed and whiskered column. Bot. Reg. 



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New Flowers. — Three bulbs have flowered during the last two months at 

 Mr. Knight's nursery at Chelsea, which have attracted much attention. They 

 were brought from Florida by Mr. Henry Knight, and have some of the charac- 

 teristics of the genus Ismene, but differ in many peculiarities. The flowerstalk 

 springs from the centre of a fine corbeille of foliage, and is surmounted with a 

 beautiful crown of snow-white flowers, of graceful structure, emitting a most 

 delightful and powerful fragrance. One of these bulbs, purchased by Mrs. 

 Lawrence, obtained the large silver medal at one of the exhibitions of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society last spring, as a new and beautiful plant somewhat resembling 

 Pancratium. It is a native of a mud swamp on the banks of the Alabama 

 river, near the city of Mobile, in Florida, where, as we have stated, it was col- 

 lected by Mr. H. Knight. 



Mr. Knight has also, among other novelties, a new Gesneria * now in flower. 

 The flowers are larger and more vivid in colour than ' Splendens,' the scarlet 

 being truly dazzling, insomuch that an artist who was making a drawing from 

 it found the greatest difficulty in conveying any idea of the beauty of the colour. 

 There is besides a striking and distinctive peculiarity of growth; the plant 

 shooting vigorously upward to the commencement of the raceme of flowers, 



* This Gesneria and the supposed Ismene will be figured in the next Number of the Floral Cabinet. 



