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acuminated spreading segments. Corolla yellowish, or greenish red, at length quite red ; tube two inches long, nearly- 

 straight, laterally compressed ; limb two-lipped, lips long, superior one inclined upwards, bifid, segments linear-acuminate ; 

 lower lip deflexed, triM, sagments lineardanceolate.— Botanical Magazine, t. 4505. 



Pentstbmon" azureus. Bentham. A hardy herbaceous plant from California. Flowers 

 bright blue, very handsome. Belongs to the order of Linariads (Scrophulariacea;). Intro- 

 duced by the Horticultural Society. 



A smooth, glaucous, erect perennial, about two feet high. Leaves lineardanceolate, quite- entire upon the stem, 

 but near the root oblong and slightly heart-shaped at the base. Flowering racemes about a foot long or rather 

 less, slightly downy, with one short peduncle in the axil of each opposite bract, bearing from one to two flowers. The 

 latter are rather more than an inch long, clear violet blue, much deeper in the limb than on the tube. This hardy 

 perennial is stated by Mr. Bentham to have been gathered in the dry river beds of the Valley of the Sacramento. 

 Hartweg wrote on his seed-papers that it was a mountain plant. It is very handsome as a border flower, 

 but as its narrow foliage is not good, it is best grown among other species, such as Pelargoniums, &c. — Journ. 

 Hort. Soc. 



Begonia cinnabarina. Hooker. A very handsome Bolivian plant with large nodding 

 scarlet flowers. Introduced by Messrs. Henderson of Pine-Apple Place. 



Extremely handsome ; the contrast between the green stem and darker green leaves, with the deep bright red 

 of the long and stout peduncles and stipules, together with the red or rather deep large cinnabar-coloured floweis, 

 is very striking, and renders this the most desirable of all the species for cultivation : add to which, it blooms very 

 freely in an ordinary stove, and continues long in flower. Stem erect but zigzag, stout, succulent, pale green, slightly 

 downy, as are the leaves and petioles. Leaves on rather short, stout, terete, green petioles, from four to six or 

 seven inches long, obliquely ovate (the young ones much plaited and edged with red), lobed at the margin and 

 doubly serrated, the minute teeth red. Stipules ovate membranaceous, acuminate, red. Peduncles a span and more 

 long, rather stout, terete, deep and bright red, bearing a panicle of six large handsome flowers, which as well as the 

 ovaries and pedicels and ovate bracts are rather pale red or deep cinnamon colour. The ultimate pedicels are ternate, 

 drooping, of which the central flower is male, the lateral ones female. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4483. 



The interior of the ovary not being described we are uncertain whether this is a true Begonia or not. 



Uropedium Lindenii. Lhulley. An extraordinary herbaceous orchid, with all the 

 habit of the long-tailed LadyVslipper. Native of New Granada. Introduced by Linden. 



This, which is the most remarkable of the terrestrial orchids yet known, is thus described in the Orchidacece 

 Lindeniance : This singular and magnificent plant grows on the ground in the little woods of the Savannah, in that 

 elevated part of the Cordillera which overlooks the vast forests at the bottom of the Lake of Maracaybo, and situated on 

 the territory of the Indians of Chiguara, at the height of 8,500 feet. Sepals oval-lanceolate, pale yellow, streaked with 

 orange. Petals purple, orange at the base. The flower may be from fifteen to twenty inches long in its greatest 

 diameter. Leaves thick and fleshy ; June, 1843. The habit of this curious plant is exactly that of Cypripedium insigne. 

 The leaves are a foot long, blunt, unequally two-toothed at the point, shining, spotless, and longer than the downy scape. 

 The bracts are two, of which the exterior is spathaceous, compressed, blunt, coriaceous, and much longer than the 

 inner. The .peduncle is six inches long, downy and one-flowered. The upper sepal is ovate-lanceolate, and four inches 

 long ; the lower are united into one of the same form, but rather wider. The petals are lineardanceolate, extended 

 into a long, narrow tail, and are probably eight or nine inches long, but in my specimens they are broken. The lip is of 

 exactly the same form, but broader, and like the sepals is shaggy at the base. 



The sepals are white streaked with green, and more than three and a quarter inches long the petals and lip full 

 twenty-one inches long, very velvety at the base, white streaked with green ; the tails have the colour of wine lees. 



