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PANTON'S FLO WEE GARDEN. 



or peat, with not too much pot-room. It will most likely 

 not require more warmth than that of an intermediate 

 house. It has been recently sent out by the Cranston 

 Nursery Company, Hereford, who exhibited it in London. 

 The plant is thus described in the Gardener's Chronicle, 

 p. 732, vol. xvii. 



Leaves oblong, leathery, rounded or subcordate 

 at the base, acuminate at the apex. Flowers in 

 globose umbels, ground-colour pale straw or cream, 

 coronal appendages pink at the base. A native of 

 the Sikkim Himalaya. 



Bletia patula. Hooker. A hand- 

 some terrestrial tuberous Orchid, with rich 

 purple flowers. Native of Cuba and 

 Hayti. Blossoms in May. (Tig. 161, a 

 reduced sketch ; a, a flower in front of 

 the natural size ; b, the lip spread open 

 and a little magnified.) 



For specimens of this we are indebted to the 

 Earl of Derby, with whom it blossomed at 

 Knowsley. It was imported from Hayti, whence we 

 also received it from Mr. Charles Mackenzie ; it 

 already produces a flower-stem three feet high, with 

 a promise of greater vigour. Mr. Linden also found 

 what seems to be the same species on the sandy hills 

 of Yatera, in Cuba, in May, 1844, with large bright 

 purple flowers, lanceolate leaves, a foot and a half 

 long ; very strong, roundish oval pseudo-bulbs, and 

 a stem a foot and a half high. In general habit this 

 is not unlike the common Bl. verecunda ; it is still 

 more like B. Shepherdii : its lip is, however, in no 

 degree three-! obed ; although, from the manner in 

 which it is folded on each side of the end, it looks as 

 if it were so. This peculiarity is well represented in 

 the Botanical Magazine, t. 3518. The true form of 

 the lip is an exact oblong, as in our cut, with a very 

 short stalk at one end, and a deep notch at the other. 

 It has a, thin texture, is much plaited, and has along 

 the middle from five to seven white parallel crests, 

 which are interrupted here and there, and end 

 abruptly below the end of the lip. 



Sedum Kamtchaticum. Fischer and 

 Meyer, Ind. Seminum in llorto Petropo- 

 litano j Walpers' liepertormm, ii. 262. 

 Received from Dr. Fischer, in June, 1844, 

 and said to have been collected by Dr. 

 Sehrenk on the Chinese limits of the South 

 of Soongaria. 



This is a handsome herbaceous plant, with bright 

 yellow flowers like those of Sedum Aizoon, which 

 it much resembles in habit. The leaves are obo- 

 vate and toothed at the upper half only, but 

 they narrow in a wedged-shapsd manner to the 



