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reddish- pink flowers, and of erect habit. It is a native of the Organ Mountains 

 of Brazil ; and was sent from thence by George March, Esq., to his friend Mr. 

 Wailes of Newcastle, in compliment of whom it has been named by Mr. Wailes. 



This Gesnera was accompanied by a great number of Epiphytes, and about 

 thirty bulbs of Amaryllidea. It flowers in October. Bot. Mag. 



ARISTOLOCHIACE.E. 



Heterotropa Asaroides. Morr. et Decaisn. Asarabacca-like Heterotropa. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3746. This is a very singular and rare plant, and was brought to 

 Europe by M. Von Siebold from Japan; and the Edinburgh Botanic Garden is 

 indebted for the specimen here figured, to Mr. Young of the Epsom Nursery. 

 It blossoms in the greenhouses towards the end of February, and continues in 

 flower for several days in great perfection. 



It is separated from the genus Asarum, on account of the arrangement of the 

 stamens, the structure of the anthers, and also because of the nearly superior 

 position of the ovary. Bot. Mag. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 ORCHIDACEjE § EPIDENDREiE. 



Cattleya Citrina. Lindl. Yellow-flowered Cattleya. Bot. Mag. t. 8742. 

 This is certainly a very distinct and singular Cattleya. A native of Oaxaca, 

 Mexico, from which place H. Smith, Esq., sent pseudo-bulbs to the collection at 

 Woburn Abbey, in the year 1828 ; and in whose collection it flowered in April, 

 1839. The bulbs and foliage are remarkable for their very glaucous hue. The 

 flower of this species is very different from any that we have hitherto seen, being 

 of one colour, and that a bright gold; if the plate we now refer to be correct in 

 its colouring. Sir W. J. Hooker states that its size, form, and colour, is so 

 much like that of Tulipa sylvestris, that he was for a moment deceived by it. 

 The flowers are scentless. The plant is of easy growth, and is a valuable addition 

 to our stoves. It does not appear to have been known to European botanists, 

 except in a dried state ; but in Mexico its beauty seems to have attracted the 

 attention of the natives. Bot. Mag. 



We are glad to have the pleasure of recording a notice of this species. We 

 have watched it in the collection of George Barker, Esq., of Springfield near 

 Birmingham, for the last eighteen months ; hoping every time we visited it to 

 see that it had made some progress towards flowering,* but without success ; and, 

 we believe, at this time it shows no signs of inflorescence. 



§ VANDEiE. 



Oncidium Pulvinatum. Lindl. Cushion Oncidium. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 42. 

 This is a very tall spreading Oncidium, bearing a panicle eight or nine feet long ; 

 and in its disposition, colour, structure, and size of the flower, approaches near to 

 O. divaricatum. It however differs from that species in its lip, having the middle 

 lobe the largest, not the smallest ; in the cushion at its base being much more 



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