BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



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LOBELTACEiE. Lindl. 



Lobelia Bbibgesii. Hooker. Mr. Bridges's Lobelia. Bot. Mag. t. 3671. This is a 

 handsome species, bearing delicate pink flowers. It was found by Mr. Bridges near El Castello 

 de Amorgos Valdivia, in the south of Chili. 



The country is indebted for this plant to Mr. Aiton, of the Royal Gardens at Kew, who has 

 raised it from seeds. It produced its flowers in the greenhouse in 1837. Bot. Mag. 



EUPHORBIACEJE. Lindl. 



Euphorbia rigiba. Bieb. Double-glanded Euphorbia. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 43. A hand- 

 some species, brought from Italy by the Hon. Mr. Strangways, who has distributed it to many 

 gardens. It is a native of the dry declivities in the neighbourhood of the Black Sea, flowering 

 in May or June ; also on the low mountains and calcareous hills in many places in Sicily ; and 

 in similar situations in various parts of Calabria and Abruzzi. It is perfectly hardy, and is well 

 calculated for rock-work. Bot. Reg. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



TRIBE EPIDENDREjE. 



Cattleya Mossijb. Hooker. Mrs. Moss's Cattleya. Bot. Mag. t. 3669. A most magnifi- 

 cent species, very nearly allied to C. labiata, but is said to differ from that species by its 

 elongated branching stem, and deeply- sulcated pseudo-bulbs, by its unguiculate sepals and 

 petals, and by the markings, and size of the lamina of the labellum. 



The size of the flowers is : — From the top of the upper sepal to the tip of the labellum seven 

 inches and a half ; the diameter from tip to tip of the petals eight inches and a half. Each petal is 

 four inches long, and two and a half broad. The flowers are twenty-four inches in circumfernce, 

 and emit a most powerful fragrance, resembling Gymnadenia conopsea, but much stronger. 



It was introduced through the medium of G. Green, Esq., of Liverpool, in September 1836, 

 from La Guayra. It flowered in the stove of Mrs. Moss of Otterspool, near Liverpool, after 

 whom it has been named. Bot. Mag. 



Prosthechea glauca. (Nov. Gen.) Perianthium patens. Sepala libera sequalia. 

 Petala libera sequalia sepalis triplo minora. Labellum lineare columna continuum parallelumque 

 carnosum apice trilobum. Columna nana curvata basi cavata. Gynizus semirotundus. Anthera 

 subdorsalis 4 locularis. Pollinia 4. Caudiculae 4. Clinandrium integerrimum basi apiculatum 

 infra appendiculatum. Pseudobulbus ovato-orbicularis, compressus. Folia lanceolata. Scapus 

 terminalis gracilis ramosis. Flores racemosi. Herba Mexicana. 



Pseudo-bulbs 1-leaved, roundish, oval, compressed. Leaves lanceolate, longly sheathed at 

 the base, of a parchment-like texture. Scape slender, about a foot long, drooping, branched. 

 Flowers spreading after the manner of an Epidendrum, pedunculate, disposed in racemes, 

 pointing one way. Sepals ovate, acute, of a purplish colour, tipped with greenish yellow. Petals 

 about one-third the size of the sepals, lanceolate, acute, and similar to the sepals in colour. 

 Labellum linear-lanceolate, parallel, and pressed to the column, fleshy, and more especially at 

 the apex, which is divided into three unequal lobes ; the central lobe is broad, the side lobes are 

 longer, narrower, and approaching, and at the back is a fleshy angular appendage. Bracts 

 lanceolate-acute. Column curved, angular, hollow at the base. Gynizus crescent-shaped, the 

 sides of which are streaked with purple. Pollen-masses 4, situate almost at the back of the 

 column, somewhat pear-shaped. Caudiculae 4. Anther purplish, 4-celled. Clinandrium 

 roundish, entire, apiculate at the base, and just below is a roundish fleshy appendage 

 streaked with purple. 



The whole plant is covered with a glaucous hue. 



This is a very delicate but not a showy plant, imported from Mexico by G. Barker, Esq., of 

 Springfield, near Birmingham. It is nearly related to the genus Epidendrum, but differs in the 



