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Islands, flowered in March, 1843. Mr. Llewelyn says, "It is valuable from the great facility 
with which it submits to cultivation, and the profusion with which it bears its flowers. It blos- 
somed in my stove last year ; and this season it is a beautiful object, with seven or eight bulbs, 
each bearing two spikes of flowers." It has oblong pseudo-bulbs, with about four leaves, six to 
eight inches long on the top. The flowers are white, or cream-coloured, arranged moderately 
close upon an erect raceme, of about the same length as the leaves. Bot. Mag., 4163. [The 
same species is now flowering at S. Rucker, Esq.'s, Wandsworth.] 
Lyca'ste gigante v a. " Although the colours of this species are not gay, yet its large size, and 
the great height to which its flowering stem rises (full two feet), are remarkable features ; 
besides which, its flowers are among the largest in the race of Orchids. Mr. Hartweg found it 
in Guayaquil, flowering in the month of August, at a place called the Quebrada de las Juntas ; 
and from his dried specimens it was described in 1843." The species has also been introduced 
from La Guayra to Belgium, and named Maxillaria Heynderycxii by Professor Morren, (after 
Senator Heynderycx, V. P. of the Royal Agric. and Bot. Soc. of Ghent,) who was apparently 
unacquainted with the earlier name. Bot. Reg., 34. 
Masdeva'llia fenestra^ta. A curious orchid, received from Brazil several years ago by 
Messrs. Loddiges, and lately at Kew from Jamaica. The species grows in clusters, each plant 
consisting of a stem or petiole, terminated by a solitary (rarely two) oblong-elliptical leaf. The 
flowers proceed from the base of the leaf, and are " not only singular in colour, being externally 
of a deep blackish blood-colour, but still more singular in form, with the sepals united below and 
at the apex, which is open and window-like ; the whole representing the head of a bird, with a 
perforation where the eyes should be." Bot. Mag., 4164. 
Schombur'gkia tibi'cinis var. grandiflo x ra. A noble specimen of this variety flowered in 
May, 1844, in the collection of R. Hanbury, Esq., " the pseudo-bulbs being fifteen inches long, 
and the flowering stem five feet high." " It is certainly the same species as that named by Mr. 
Bateman * tibicinis,' because the hollow pseudo-bulbs are used as trumpets by the Indian children 
of Honduras." The present variety has, however, larger flowers, which are " far paler on the 
outside, and have a broader lip, whose middle lobe is not rich violet, but yellow, with a white or 
purple border. In this instance the plant realises the expectations that had been formed of it : 
in other cases, it has disappointed them." Bot. Reg., 30. 
Spiraea Lindleyana. Plants of this species raised from seeds, presented to the Horticul- 
tural Society by the Directors of the East India Company, produce flowers abundantly between 
July and September. It bears a near resemblance to the Sorb-leaved Spiraea, " differing chiefly 
in its greater stature and more numerous leaflets, which have a long taper point, and a distinctly 
ovate outline ; whilst those of S. Sorbifolia are nearly oval. It is a native of the Himalayas. Dr. 
Wallich's collectors found it in Kemaon and Sirmore ; and Dr. Royle also mentions it as inha- 
biting those countries." It has stood three winters at Chiswick without suffering. Last winter, 
however, it was killed as far as the ground, but is again shooting up. Bot. Reg., 33. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Angulo x a uniflo'ra var. A superior variety was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, at 
the Regent's Park. It differs from other specimens in having flowers of a delicate pink hue, 
instead of cream-coloured. 
Burto'nia brunioi'des. Recently introduced from New Holland, and exhibited by Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, & Co., of Exeter. It is a small villous shrub with short linear leaves, and 
rather flat terminal heads of yellow flowers. It apparently possesses a more vigorous habit than 
B. conferta. 
Ch^eno'stoma polya'nthum. Specimens of this interesting little greenhouse plant are now 
flowering at Messrs. Henderson's Nursery. It is a product of South Africa, about Algoa Bay, 
and the Zwartkops river, from whence it was first transferred to the continental nurseries, and 
through them has reached England. From its dwarf habit, and numerous loose racemes of 
small, labiate, lavender-blue flowers, with orange throat, it promises to be a useful species. We 
saw it in flower last autumn at Mr. Knight's and Mr. Lowe's, from which it would appear to blossom 
