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BOTANICAL NOTICES OP NEW PLANTS. 



long weak sepals, which are rolled up, and in that state scarcely wider than the 

 long white declinate stamens. The long description given by Dr. Lindley in the 

 Register will be very satisfactory to botanists. Bot. Reg. 



Phycella biflora. Lindl. Two-flowered Phycella. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 43. 

 This beautiful bulb was exhibited at a meeting of the London Horticultural 

 Society meeting in Regent Street, on the 17th April, where it was awarded by a 

 medal. It was received from Mr. Toward, gardener to his Royal Highness the 

 Duke of Gloucester, at Bagshot, and had been obtained from Chili. None of 

 the species are to be compared with it for beauty. The flowers are two inches 

 long, with a diameter of as much when expanded ; the tube is a clear, bright, 

 greenish yellow, while the upper end is of the most vivid scarlet, just tinged with 

 purple. The processes of the tube of the flower by which the genus is known 

 are nearly half an inch long, lanceolate, and split into two or three sharp lobes. 

 It is a frame bulb, and worth cultivation. Bot. Reg. 



ORCHID ACEiE. TRIBE MALAXIDEiE § PLEUROTHALLIDEiE. 



Pleurothallis margtnata. Lindl. Marginate Pleurothallis. Bot. Reg. 

 N. S. p. 42. A small species of no beauty related to P. grobyi. It was sent to 

 James Bateman, Esq., from Guatemala, by Mr. Skinner, and grows in dense 

 tufts on the trees. Bot. Reg. 



Pleurothallis aphthosa. Lindl. Warty Pleurothallis. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 p. 42. This is a Mexican species with dull yellow flowers, received by J. Bate- 

 man, Esq., from the Birmingham Botanic Garden. The sepals are very thick, 

 and brittle, smooth inside, and covered at the end and towards the edges with 

 elevated warts ; the petals are almost transparent, and of a very light dull 

 yellow ; the labellum is fleshy, and of a deep purple. Bot. Reg. 



Pleurothallis villosa. Villous Pleurothallis. Foliis ovatis coriaceis, peti- 

 olis sulcatis ; scapo flexuoso ; bracteis spathosis ; floribus villosis purpureo- 

 maculatis ; supremo sepalo subspathulato margine reflexo, carinato ; sepalis 

 lateralibus connatis basi gibbosis ; petalis spathulatis minutis ; labello lingui- 

 formi recurvato sulcato. 



This is a very pleasing species, in the collection of G. Barker, Esq. It is a 

 native of Mexico. It grows about four inches high, the scape is flexuose, and 

 at each bend it bears a flower ; the flowers are very woolly, beautifully spotted 

 with purple, and the lateral sepals are gibbous at the base. It seems a free 

 flowerer, having put forth flowers two or three times during the last six months. 



Stelis tristyla. Lindl. A species imported from Brazil by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges, and, like the rest of the genus, not remarkable for its beauty, although 

 one of the largest that has yet been seen. It flowered in April. 



Ccelogyne prolifera. Lindl. Proliferous Coelogyne. Bot. Reg. N. S. p. 44. 

 A plant in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, 

 and introduced from the East Indies by Mr. Gibson. Its flowers are small, of a 



