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hypochil. Its flowers are deliciously scented, and their bright golden colour produces a very rich 
effect. At first sight it might be taken for a mere variety of S. oculata, but Messrs. Loddiges 
long since pointed out the shortness of its ovary as a decisive mark of distinction. The effect of 
this shortness is to make the inflorescence of S. Bucephalus very narrow, while in S. oculata it 
is broad and straggling. The species is a native of the woods of Paccha, a small village in the 
Andes, on the ascent from Guayaquil to Loxa, at an elevation of 6000 feet above the level of the 
sea, where it was found by Mr. Hartweg. It first flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society in August, 1843. Its stem is spotted as well as its blossoms."— Be*. Reg., 24. 
Wa'rrea cya x nea. The genus Warrea was established by Dr. Lindley in 1843, upon the 
old Maxillaria Warreana. Since then, two new and quite distinct species (of which this is one) 
have been added to it. « In the beginning of 1844 this beautiful species blossomed with 
Messrs. Loddiges, and a few months since another ( W, bidentata) appeared in the collection of 
Mr. Rucker. Both the latter are from the Spanish Main, and it is not improbable that others 
may lurk in the unexamined forests of that vast region. Warrea cyanea is remarkable for the 
intense porcelain-blue colour of its lip, to which it is not easy to find a parallel in the order ; for 
pure blue is scarcely known among Orchids. The plant has quite the habit of Warrea tricolor, 
but is very much smaller in all its parts. Its most distinctive character is found in the form of 
its lip, which has a distinct point, and five ribs, not three, near the base. Messrs. Loddiges 
imported it from Colombia, and it is No. 860 of their last catalogue. Being a terrestrial species it 
requires treatment very similar to Phaius rnaculalus." [Not the least recommendatory 
property of this plant is the long time during which it continues to send out successional 
racemes of flowers. We observed it flowering during the spring and summer months of 1844, at 
Messrs. Rollisson's nursery, Tooting, under the name of Warrea ccerulea.]—Rot. Reg. } 28. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Ble'tia catenula'ta. — This is the species upon which the genus Bleiia was first established 
by Ruiz and Pavon, although it has only very lately appeared in this country, and is, we believe, 
at the present time only in the hands of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Mount Radford Nursery, 
Exeter, who introduced it through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. It was discovered by that 
successful collector, occupying dry sandy situations upon the hills near Muna, in Peru. A 
specimen has recently flowered, and was exhibited at the rooms of the Horticultural Society, in 
Regent Street, in the beginning of the month. It is apparently similar in habit to the now 
common B.florida. The flower-stem rises erectly nearly a foot and a half ; the blossoms, which 
are loosely arranged on the upper half, are large, and of a fine purple colour. Like the other 
species, it will require to be grown in a pot. 
Gesne'ra macula^ta. A very showy variety, growing about two feet high, and terminating 
in immense clusters of purple flowers, spotted with white at the throat, about the size and shape 
of those in G. Cooperii. It sprung from seed of G. Douglasii, fertilized with some of the scarlet 
flowering kinds from Brazil, and is now blooming in Messrs. Henderson's nursery, Pine-apple 
Place. 
Habrotha'mnus fascicula'tus. This plant has at length flowered in the Horticultural 
Society's garden at Chiswick, and proves to be really a very fine thing. The tubular flowers are 
of a very rich orange crimson, and appear in clusters at the top of the branches. The specimen 
in question is little more than a yard high, and has been kept in a greenhouse. By some mis- 
take, the Cestrum roseum, a plant very much resembling it in habit and foliage, but inferior in 
the flowers, has been sold rather extensively for it. 
Odontoglo'ssum, new species. Two new species have flowered lately in Messrs. Loddiges' 
extensive collection. One is almost white, and the other has a delicate pinkish purple tint : both 
have a circular collection of irregularly-shaped long dark spots in the centre portion of the 
flower. That with the paler ground colour is the larger flower, and has more distinct, and a 
greater number of the transverse streaks in the middle. They are allied to O. Rossii, but the 
blossoms are considerably larger. 
