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BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



BIGNONTACEiE. 



Spathodea pentandba. Hook. Five-stamened Spathodea. Bot. Mag. t. 3681. This is- 

 a beautiful and noble tree, seeds of which were received by Mr. Murray, of the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden, from India. The flowers are arranged in a large corymb, and of a beautiful purple 

 colour. It did not flower until it attained a height of nearly twenty feet. This occurred in 

 June 1838. Bot. Mag. 



RUBIACEvE. Juss. GALIACEJE. Lindl. 



Crucianella stylosa. Trin. Long-styled Crucianella. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 55. This is 

 a beautiful little herbaceous plant, bearing numerous heads of bright pink flowers, which are 

 very ornamental. It flowers during the months of J une, J uly, and August, growing about a 

 foot high in any good garden soil. It was found growing upon rocks among the mountains of 

 the province of Ghilan, in Persia. Bot. Reg. 



THYMELACEJE. Lindl. 



Daphne Austbalis. Ceyrill. Southern Daphne. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 56. This species 

 bears a corymb of purple flowers, which, contrasted with the dark green leaves, have a pretty 

 appearance. It is a native near Naples, where it is not uncommon, and known to the gardeners 

 under the above name. Its leaves are remarkably hairy, and the flowers very fragrant. 

 Bot. Reg. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 ORCHID A CEiE TRIBE. MALAXIDEiE. 



Bolbophyllum bbacteolatum. Lindl. Bracteolate Bolbophyllum. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 t. 57. This most curious little epiphyte is a native of Demerara, whence it was obtained by 

 Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in July, 1837. 



" This species, and B. setigerum, and probably some others, offer the singular instance of 

 the existence in America of a genus hitherto discovered only in the old world. The flowers are 

 small, and, when magnified, are seen beautifully variegated with flesh-colour, yellow, red, and 

 violet ; but what is more remarkable, there exists on each side of the flower, at the base of the 

 petals, a small ovate bract, the rudiment of which is also met with in B. setigerum, in the form 

 of a minute tubercle. This additional part has never before been noticed in the order, and is 

 possibly the explanation of the true nature of the exterior series of floral organs found in Epi- 

 stephium. It would therefore seem as if the ordinary condition of the flowers of Orchidacese were 

 in a sort of middle state between two extremes ; of which Epistephium is the most complete, 

 and Monomeria, in which there are no petals, the most imperfect." — Bot. Reg. 



§ EPIDENDREJE. 



Epibendbum Schombubghii. Lindl. Mr. Schomburgk's Epidendrum. Bot. Reg. N. S. 

 t. 53. This truly beautiful species is a native of British Guiana, where it was discovered by 

 Mr. Schomburgk, who sent home dried flowers, and a drawing, from which Dr. Lindley's first 

 knowledge of the species was obtained. It has since flowered in the establishment of Messrs. 

 Loddiges. 



Dr. Lindley remarks, that in Mr. Schomburgk's drawing the leaves are marked with blood- 

 red dots all round the margin, but in the cultivated plant they have not made their appearance. 

 Bot. Reg. 



