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issues, bearing four or five large handsome flowers, with rose-coloured sepals and petals, and a 
lip remarkable for its deep purple-red colour, becoming paler at the margin of the side-lobes, and 
yellowish on the disk. Bot. Mag. 4083 . 
Clerode'ndron infortuna^tum. This plant " was sent from Ceylon to his Grace the Duke of 
Northumberland, by Mr. Nightingale, and flowered at Syon, in August, 1843." " The true 
characters of the species seem to lie in its very large flowers, v/hich are clustered in little heads 
at the end of the principal branches of inflorescence, and in the large, leafy, coloured calyx, 
which is ha^f split into five segments. It is a ti'uly splendid species, and will be a great addition 
to a botanical collection, as it is a very free-growing plant." It is a shrubby plant, requiring to 
be grown in a moist stove. Bot. Reg. 19. 
Di^SA grandiplo'ra, " Of all described terrestrial Orchidacese, this is unquestionably the 
most beautiful, the ' well-known pride of the Table Mountain,' where Mr. Harvey assures us that 
every stream is literally bordered with it in the month of March." The stems of the specimens 
figured in " Lindley's Sertum Orchidaceum " were two feet and a half high, and the flowers 
five inches and a half across. Those which flowered in the greenhouse at Kew last August were 
short of this size. " The tubers had recently been imported, and they may probably never flower 
a second time ; for it is well known that no plants are more difficult to cultivate for a succession 
of years than terrestrial Orchidacese. In the present instance, it would be scarcely possible to 
imitate the native soil and climate." "They grow," says Sir John Herschel, "where the 
temperature is occasionally as low as SI'', and also occasionally as high as 96". The habit is on 
the margin of pools of standing water, the drainage of the boggy slopes of the mountains, where 
the roots are immersed. These are dry, or nearly so, in summer. In such localities the plant 
is, of course, frequently involved in the dense mists of the clouds, which, even in the hottest 
months, often cover its habitation for a week or a fortnight uninterruptedly." The most showy 
feature of this truly magnificent flower is the large scarlet sepals, the uppermost of which is 
helmet-shaped, copiously spotted with dark crimson, and having a yellow margin. The lip and 
petals are comparatively small. The plant was first introduced to this country about twenty 
years ago ; but, owing to the difficulty of preserving it, it is far from being common. Bot, 
Mag. 4073. 
E'ria floribu'nda. " Although the flowers of this plant cannot boast of large size and rich 
colours, they are by no means destitute of beauty. Arranged as they are in long drooping racemes, 
glassy in texture, and delicately touched with crimson, they are among the prettiest of the 
smaller kinds. It is a native of Sincapore, whence it has been received by Messrs. Loddiges." 
Bot. Reg. 20. 
Eri^ CA jasminiflo^ra. This very handsome heath was obligingly communicated fi'om the 
greenhouse of the Cullege Botanic Garden at Dublin, under the name of E. xnjiata. The E. 
inflala of Thunberg it certainly is not ; but that name has incorrectly been assigned to the E. 
jasminijlora of Andrews, to which this plant seems decidedly to belong : and, v^ere it not stated 
that Roxburgh gives it as an inhabitant of the Cape Colony, I should be disposed to consider it a 
hybrid between E. Irbyana or E. Shannoniana and E. Aitoniana. It has the inflated tube of 
the two former, and the large limb approaches to that of the latter." The flowers are collected 
into heads, consisting generally of from 7 to 10 blooms. These are white, tinged with red or 
blush, and have a very waxy appearance, from the glutinous substance with which they are 
covered. Bot. Mag. 4074. 
Nemata'nthus chlorone^ma. Specimens of this plant were gathered in the Organ Moun- 
tains, by Mr. Gardner, and sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they flowered in July, 
1843. Between it and N. longipes "the chief distinction lies in the relative length of the 
peduncle and leaves, and of the calyx, segments, and corolla ; and the flowers, it may be 
remarked, are smaller, and the spread of the limb less." Bot. Mag. 4080. 
Nelu'mbium ca'spicum. The drawing was taken from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. 
Rollisson, of Tooting, in August, 1843. " According to M. De Candolle, all the Nelumbia found 
m various parts of Asia are varieties of one species, and this opinion is generally adopted. It 
is, however, difficult to believe that the deep-red Nelumbium of India, with very sharp-pointed 
petals, can be the same with the blunt-petalled white-flowered plant ' found at the mouth of the 
Volga, near Astrachan, &c., amongst reeds, intermixed with NymphseaB and Trapa,' which, 
