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^lardcncr's JKontMg. 



them sessile white flowers ; and has been re-intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Veitch & Sons. 



CcELOGYNE CORRUGATA, pretty white-flowered 

 epiphyte, introduced from India to the Royal Gar- 

 dens, Kew. "It will not thrive in the East India 

 house, but is quite at home in the coolest part of 

 the Cattleya houfe." Its wrinkled pseudo bulbs are 

 peculiar, and the blossoms are in three-flowered 

 racemes, the lip being stained with yellow, and 

 streaked w^ith orange on the disk. 



Cotyledon fascicularts, a pretty succulent 

 Cape shrub introduced by Mr. Saunders, and having 

 obovate-cuneate cuspidate leaves, and scorpioid pa- 

 nicles of pendulous cylindrico-campaniilate flowers, 

 the segments of which are dull red, edged with 

 green. 



Glyptostrobus pendulus, from a plant which 

 has this ypar flowered at Kew. "Its similarity to 

 the Taxodium distichum is very striking. Like that 



plant it has pendulous spikes of male cones, with 

 one or two female cones at the base of the spike, 

 and sheds its ultimate branches annually, but it 

 difl"ers in the foliage not being distichous, in the 

 scales of the cone not being peltate, but arising from 

 one point at the base of the cone, and in the winged 

 seeds. The habit, too, is very remarkable, owing 

 to the great slenderness of the twisted stem, decurv- 

 ed bran hes, and pectinately disposed branchlets." 

 It grows 40 feet high. 



Helipterum Cotula, a beautiful We§t Austra- 

 lian annual everlasting, growing from 6 inches to 2 

 feet high, with slender branches, each terminated 

 by a large white or yellow flower head, the white- 

 headed form being the H. Cotula, and the yellow 

 the H. citrinum of authors. The plant is gray with 

 weak woolly hairs, and bears filiform leaves. It was 

 introduced by Mr. W. Thompson. 



Agave Yerschaffeltti.— The whole family of 

 "American Aloes," or Agaves, of which the Cen- 

 tury Plant is a well-known member, are very popu- 

 lar. They make such picturesque objects in pots 

 or tubs for the summer decoration of our grounds, 

 and being nearly hardy, are veiy easily kept over in 

 winter in cellars, or any out-of-the-way place, that 

 every one admires them, and all who can add to 

 the variety. 



This new species has been recently added to Mr. 

 Verschaffeli's collection at Ghent, in Belgium, and 

 as Mr. Verschaffelt has correspondents in America, 

 we hope soon to see it in some collections. 



Mr. VerschafFolt says it is a dwarf and very leafy 

 species, wi^h a deep glaucous tint, and each leaf 

 garnished with beautiful black spines. 



