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BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



This species of Stypandra is distinct from all the species of Stypandra we are 

 acquainted with, in being frutescent. It grows about three feet high. The stem 

 is compressed, and the leaves are linear, lanceolate, much resembling grass. The 

 flowers are of a delicate blue colour, arranged in a kind of corymb. 



It is in the collection of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. 

 We shall give a figure and a further description of it in a forthcoming Number. 



ORCHID ACE-ffi. TRIBE MALAXIDEiE. 



Octomeria gracilis. Lod. Slender Octomeria. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 36. An 

 inconspicuous species, having flowers like those of 0. Baueri, but smaller, with 

 a differently shaped lip, and with very narrow-channelled, recurved leaves. It 

 was received by Messrs. Loddiges from Rio Janeiro. Bot. Reg. 



§ DENDROBIEiE. 



Cirrhopetalum cespitosum. Wall. Csespitose Cirrhopetalum. Bot. Reg. 

 N. S. p. 35. A small Epiphyte, in the collection of his Grace the Duke of 

 Devonshire, at Chatsworth. It has small, pale yellow-ochre-coloured flowers. 

 It is not showy. Bot. Reg. 



Dendrobium candidum. Wall. White Dendrobium. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 36. 

 This species was found by Mr. Gibson, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire's 

 collector in India, at Nungelow, on the north side of the Khoosea Hills, growing 

 on rocks, sand, and decayed trees. The flowers are pure white and most exqui- 

 sitely scented. It has the habit of D. nobile in being erect, not pendulous, as 

 in D. pierardi and that race. The stems are about a foot long, and lose the 

 principal part of their leaves before flowering. Bot. Reg. 



§ EPIDENDREiE. 



Epidendrum cucuixatum. Lindl. Cucullate Epidendrum. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 p. 33. A species of no beauty. The flowers are small, and white at the top of 

 a leafy stem of about nine inches high. The anther is remarkable, by being 

 inserted far below the apex of the column, in which respect it approaches the 

 genus Physinga. It is a native of Para, and imported by R. Harrison, Esq., of 

 Liverpool. Bot. Reg. 



Epidendrum longicolle. Lindl. Long-necked Epidendrum. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 p. 34. This species is nearly allied to E. nocturnum, but much less handsome. 

 The sepals and petals are pale yellow ; the lip white, with two yellow plates 

 at the base. It was received from Demerara by Messrs. Loddiges. Bot. Reg. 



Epidendrum altissimum. Bateman. Tall Epidendrum. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 

 38. This species was found by Mr. Skinner in the rocky parts of the Bahamas, 

 and received by Mr. Bateman in the summer of 1837. This species has a power- 

 ful odour resembling bees-wax. It is also in the collection of Messrs. Pvollisons. 

 It is very like to E. Oncidioides, Bot. Reg., from which its long pseudobulbs, 

 gigantic stature, and labellum, alone distinguish it. Bot. Reg. 



