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exposed to light, but as the fruit swells off, it should be removed to a drier and more airy place, 
and kept dry through the winter. Young plants may be obtained either from cuttings or seeds. 
—Bat. Reg., 9. 
Milto'nia cunea v ta. A handsome epiphyte allied to M. Candida, with flowers nearly four 
inches in diameter ; the sepals and petals are rich brown tipped with green (a primrose colour). 
The lip is pure white, with a tinge of pink near the base, in form quite different from M. Candida, 
for it is scarcely at all curled at the edge, is very much narrowed to the base, and has only one 
pair of plates instead of two and a half. The wings of the column too are scarcely divided, or 
at all events not at ail notched." It is a Brazilian species, and was introduced lately by Messrs. 
Rollisson to the Tooting Nursery, where it flowered last March. Bot.Reg.,8. (See Vol. XI. p. 70). 
Pleurotha'llis bicarina v ta. " South America, but especially the western side of the 
Cordillera, and the mountains of Peru and Columbia, abound in species of the curious genus 
Pleurothallis. The present, however, is a native of Brazil, and has thence been received by 
Mr. Loddiges ; and Mr. Gardner sent living plants of it from Rio to Woburn, which have through 
that source reached the Royal Gardens of Kew, where they produced their orange-coloured 
flowers from the bosom of the solitary elliptical leaf, in December, 1843. The species is well- 
named by Dr. Lindley from the sharp keel on each side of the lateral sepals." It forms tufts of 
jointed angular stems from two to five inches long, clothed at the joints with sheathing scales, 
having numerous rich chocolate-eolom*ed spots on a yellow ground. Each stem is surmounted by 
a fine elliptical leathery leaf faintly striated on the surface. From a hollow at the base of this leaf 
a stalk bearing a spike of orange-red flowers proceeds. Bot. Mag., 4142. 
Sola'num macra'nthum. " A native of Brazil, and has been long cultivated in the Royal 
Botanic Gardens of Kew, where, planted in the border, it has attained to the height of the roof. 
In such a situation it really makes a handsome appearance, with its ample foliage and its large 
pale lilac coloured flowers, which, drooping as they do from the upper branches, are seen to great 
advantage from below. To those cultivators who have not space to allow its growing thus freely, 
cuttings may be recommended, which strike freely, and flower almost as soon as struck." In the 
Kew gardens it forms a tree twelve or fourteen feet high, and in its native country probably 
attains a much greater height. The branches spread, and are covered with rusty-green wool, and 
copiously armed with stiff thorns. The leaves are somewhat egg-shaped and sinuate at the 
margins, the surface strongly reticulate, downy above, and almost woolly beneath. The flowers 
are in racemose clusters, springing from the base of the leaves, but not extending far from the 
stem. Like the rest of the plant, both the flower-stalks and the tube of the calyx are beset with 
thorns, and clothed densely with wool. It is a strong and rather coarse-looking plant, scarcely 
requiring a stove heat. Bot. Mag., 4138. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Angr^cum bilo'bum. This neat orchidaceous plant developed a raceme of glistening white 
flowers in the stove of Mrs. Lawrence at Ealing Park, about the end of January. The peculiar 
arrangement and form of the sepals, petals, and lip, confer a stellar appearance on the blossoms ; 
which are rendered additionally interesting by the graceful drooping curvature of the stalk that 
carries them, and the deep green of the foliage behind. It is a rather diminutive plant, a native 
of the Cape coast, and has been some years in the collections of this country. 
Beaufo'rtia sple'ndens. Mr. Knight has a fine species of Beaufortia under this name 
flowering beautifully in one of the greenhouses at the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea. The general 
habit of the plant is not strikingly different from that of B, decussata, but the inflorescence, 
instead of being of a purplish-crimson hue, is of a fine glowing scarlet. The flowers of these 
plants owe their attractiveness to the bundles of stamens, and their long claws, which in the 
present species are above an inch in length. The calyx and corolla are very minute and pale 
yellowish green, their segments having the appearance of small scales ; and from their position — 
being quite sessile and very closely arranged all round the stem — are entirely concealed by the 
more specious filaments. It is a greenhouse shrub, and likely to be very useful, from its winter- 
flowering capacity. 
