GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Saccolabium Ge^iffei. This species appears to have been recently flowered by Mr. T. 

 Christy, of Malvern House, Sydenham, and from the description will no doubt turn out a 

 handsome plant. New Saccolabiums make their appearance at much wider intervals than 

 many Orchids, and on this account the subject of our notice will be acceptable to the lovers of 

 Orchids. It is said to come from the Viti Islands. 



Leaves broad, ligulate, retuse. Peduncle strong, bearing a spike of deep purple flowers, in shade approaching that 

 of Rodriguezia sccunda. Cylindrical spur blunt and constricted. Lip blade short, three-toothed, with a transverse 

 lamella in front of the base of the middle lacinia. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 716. 



Cypeipedium gemmieeeum. A handsome hybrid variety. The colours are a combina- 

 tion of white and purple, shaded with rose and streaked with green. Flowered with J. C. 

 Bo wring, Esq., Forest Farm, Windsor Forest. 



Leaves like C. Hookerce. Peduncle dark reddish-brown. Upper sepal broad elliptic, with a small apiculus, white 

 with a rosy hue towards the lateral margin, bearing eleven green nerves on each side of the middle rib. Inferior sepal 

 narrow, more acute, not equalling the lip. Petals broad, ligulate, blunt, green at the base, piirple in the middle, 

 white at the extreme apex. Cilise around the margin. Lip with a blunt sepia-brown sac and upright horns of the 

 same colour, nail lighter greenish, excepting inflexed parts, which are light brown, and adorned with numerous 

 shining reddish-brown warts, which have suggested the name. Staminode transverse, crescent-shaped, with a little 

 apiculus in the middle, and an excision at the back opposite to it. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xv., p. 814. 



Zephyeanthes citeina. This is a decided acquisition, horticulturally, as it is the first 

 of the genus, so far as our acquaintance goes, that bears flowers of a yellow hue. The 

 general character of the plant, as far as the appearance of the bulbs and leaves is concerned, 

 is much like some others of the family — such, for instance, as the old Z, rosea — but the flowers, 

 which are borne much in the same way as those of the last-named plant, are smaller, the 

 diameter of the litnb being much less. Most likely this species will thrive under conditions 

 similar to the others already better known, which as to temperature require that of an ordinary 

 greenhouse, with a moderate quantity of water whilst growing, never allowing the soil to 

 become dry when at rest. It is a native of tropical America. 



Bulb globose. Leaves three or four, developed in autumn simultaneously with the flower, narrow linear, bright- 

 green, about a foot long. Scape ancipitous, four or five inches long, green, tinged with red-brown towards the base. 

 Spathe short, tubular. Pedicel under an inch long. Ovary oblong, trigonous, green ; perianth with a funnel-shaped 

 tube above the ovary, a third or half an inch long, and a bright yellow limb an inch and a half long of six oblong sub- 

 acute connivent segments under half an inch broad. Stamens same colour as the perianth limb ; filaments under an inch 

 long, erect and equal ; anthers linear, half an inch long, their tips falling considerably short of the tips of the perianth- 

 segments. Style about an inch long, with a stigma of three distinct rounded lobes.— Botanical Magazine, 6605. 



Nepenthes Couetii. In the host of hybrid plants, which within the last twenty years 

 have been raised in Messrs. Veitclrs Chelsea establishment, Nepenthes form an important 

 feature. These most singular of Nature's vegetable productions appear readily to conform to 

 the manipulation of the hybridist. In this way many varieties alike handsome and distinct 



