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BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



LABIATE. Juss. 



Leonotis nepet.,efolia. R. Brown. Catmint-leaved Leonotis. Bot. Mag. t. 3700. This 

 is a very handsome herbaceous plant, bearing dense whorls of red flowers. It is a native of 

 Africa ; but the present species is not only found there, but in various parts of the continent of 

 India and the adjacent islands, and probably imported also from Brazil. It is not unfrequent 

 in collections. The present plant flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden in July, 1837. 

 Bot. Mag. 



PORTULACACE^. Lindl. 



Calandrinia discolor. Lindl. Two-coloured Calandrinia. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 4. This 

 is a beautiful and showy plant, introduced from the Berlin Botanic Garden in 1835, by the 

 London Horticultural Society. In all its habits and in its appearance it resembles C. gran- 

 diflora, but is much handsomer, the flowers being three times the size, and remain expanded 

 all day long, whether in sunshine or shade, while those of C. grandiflora open only in the 

 sunshine. It is apparently a half-shrubby plant, capable of being treated with advantage as an 

 annual. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 ORCHIDACEiE. TRIBE EPIDENDREiE. 



Epidendrum tridactylum, var. pallidum. This plant is very near to E. tridactylum, 

 Bot. Reg., but from that it differs in being much paler in the flowers, in not having the sepals 

 roundish, but obovate-lanceolate, and the column not being green but yellowish. It is a native of 

 Brazil, and plants of it were sent to the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society from 

 its native country, by E. W. Fry, Esq. It is also in the collection of George Barker, Esq. Its 

 flowers are small, and of no beauty. It is only deserving of cultivation as a botanical variety. 



Brasavola Martiana. Lindl. Dr. Von Martius' Brasavola. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 5. This 

 distinct species was imported from Berbice by Messrs. Loddiges. It was originally discovered 

 by Dr. Von Martius on the banks of the Rio Negro in Brazil, and was described by Dr. Lindley 

 at p. 1914 from dried specimens in that gentleman's herbarium. It is allied to B. cucullata and 

 amazonica by its fringed labellum ; it has much smaller flowers than the former, and the labellum 

 is of a different form ; the latter has a one-sided raceme, and the labellum contracted in the 

 middle, so as to be distinctly divided into a hypochilium and epichilium. Bot. Beg. 



§ VANDE^I. 



Odontoglossum Rossii. C Sp. nov.J Sepalis lanceolatis aeuminatis, maculatis, supremo 

 latiori ; petalis elliptico lanceolatis basi maculatis ; labello magno cordato obtuso crispo, ungue 

 cristato, crista carnosa elevata apice oblique truncata, retrorsum biloba. cucullata. 



This is a handsome species of Odontoglossum, imported by George Barker, Esq. of Springfield, 

 near Birmingham, in whose collection it flowered in December last. The labellum is white, 

 having the crest at the base of a bright yellow colour ; the sepals and petals are blotched with 

 brown. 



Stanhope a tigrina. Bateman. (Tiger-flowered Stanhopea.) Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 1. This 

 is the most beautiful of all the Stanhopeas known in this country ; and however well executed 

 the figure may be in the above work, it is impossible that such plants can be executed in cheap 



