FLORICULTURAL NOTICES* 
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of the Caucasus, whence it is supposed to have spread eastward ; but the latter point is conjec- 
tural, unless this plant should establish its truth." The following is an extract from Dr. Royle's 
Illustrations of the Himalayahs s— (t J. officinale has become so naturalized in the gardens of 
England, that we cannot believe it, as generally supposed to be, a native of India ; as we know 
no other instance where a shrub from the plains or southern parts of that country has become 
acclimated so far north ; but the common name of the Jasmine in the languages of Europe 
indicates its origin from the Arabic name Yasmeen. J. grandifiora is the most nearly allied 
species, and this flourishes in the hottest parts of India. Dr. Wallich has, however, obtained 
specimens from the mountains of Kemaon, which he has referred to this species, and which are 
very similar to some I have gathered in such mountains as Dhunoultee, Suen, Acharanda, Kedar- 
Kanta, and Urrukta. These I have been in the habit of considering as J. officinale, as it is not 
usual to find the same shrub common in the plains and at 7000 and 8000 feet of elevation in 30° 
of N. latitude." Hot. Reg., 26. 
Lupi'nus ramosi'ssimus. This name has been accorded by Mr. Bentham, in a yet unpublished 
manuscript of the Plants Harhvegianae, to a species " raised in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, from seeds collected by Mr. Hartweg on Chimborazo, at an elevation of 13,000 feet 
above the level of the sea. The flowers smell like those of the Sweet Pea." It a is a pretty half- 
hardy shrubby species, growing three or four feet high in any good garden soil, and well suited 
for cultivation in the open border, if treated as a summer annual. The seeds should be sown 
early in February, and afterwards potted singly ; and when the danger of late spring frost is 
over, they should be planted out, where they will bloom freely from June to October." [Doubtless 
this species, as well as L. arboreus and L. mutabilis, would strike root from cuttings taken 
off in autumn, and make dwarf specimens to flower in the greenhouse till after ^Christmas.]— 
Bot. Reg., 25. 
Periste'ria Humbo'ldti, var. ftj'lva. This variety flowered in the collection of Mr. Barker, 
near Birmingham, in June 1843. The colour is considerably different from that given by 
Dr. Lindley in the Botanical Register, on which account it is here indicated as a variety. 
Its native country is Venezuela, where it was first detected by Humboldt ; for Dr. Lindley has 
clearly determined that the Anguloa superba of that author is in reality this plant, represented 
in an imperfect state. It is one of the most striking among Orchidaceous plants, and few are 
more worthy of cultivation. The true Anguloa of Ruiz and Pavon is ascertained by Dr. 
Lindley to be a very different genus. The present kind bears pendent racemes from eighteen 
inches to two feet long, numerously furnished with large fleshy flowers of a tawny yellow colour, 
dashed almost all over with spots of purplish brown. — Bot. Mag., 4156. 
Polysta'chya bracteo^sa. Communicated from Sierra Leone by Mr. Whitfield. The 
pseudo-bulbs are about an inch in diameter, almost orbicular, and singularly compressed ; from 
their summit arises a stout petiole, bearing a solitary oblong-obovate leaf. The peduncle issues 
from a cleft at the top of the petiole, and bears a large leafy bract at its origin, and several 
smaller ones above it. The flowers are dull orange-yellow, and arranged in a many-flowered, 
drooping raceme. Dr. Lindley observes, " it is well distinguished by its downy flowers and taper- 
ing squarrose bracts, which extend down the peduncle, the lowermost one being very large and 
leaf-like."— Bot. Mag., 4161. 
Salpixa'ntha cocci'nea. ^ This curious plant, which has at first sight, indeed, little apparent 
affinity with the Acanthaceee (sect. Ruellise), was discovered by Mr. Purdie, botanical collector 
for the Royal Gardens, in the island of Jamaica, whence it was sent to the Royal Gardens. It 
blossomed freely in the stove during the autumn of the same year, and in the early winter of 
1844-5, and made a very pretty appearance with its gracefully pendent, scarlet blossoms, and 
its well-formed dark green foliage." It is a low, branching shrub, perfectly smooth all over, with 
opposite, ovate, somewhat waved, dark green leaves. It bears its blossoms decussately arranged 
in a spike on the upper part of a peduncle, either terminal or proceeding from the axil of the 
leaves. The flowers have a tube about an inch long, and an almost equal, spreading, five-cleft 
limb Bot. Mag., 4158. 
Stainiio'pea Buce'phalus. This species has received the names of Epidendrnm grandiflorum 
and Anguloa grandifiora in the works of Humboldt and Bonpland. It " is one of the rarest and 
finest of the Stanhopeas, in some measure resembling S. cculata, especially in the long, narrow 
