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and continuing expanded for nearly a week, whilst those of the one referred to open in the 
evening, are in perfection at midnight, and finally close a little before sunrise. It is also proper 
to state that, in addition to their other recommendations, the flowers of this species are deliciously 
fragrant, which will no doubt render it a most valuable acquisition to the admirers of this 
singular tribe of succulents.* The plant grows about two feet high, with lai'ge spreading 
branches, usually flat and broad, of a beautiful rich, shining grass-green, with large rounded 
teeth along the edges, and a very prominent midrib. The flowers are produced near the 
extremity of the shoot, and have a slightly curved tube about four inches long, and numerous 
pale cream-coloured petals of a delicate texture, forming a circle several rows deep, about five 
inches in diameter, from the centre of which a great number of filaments, about two-thirds the 
length of the petals, are protruded. Before expanding, the flower-buds are of a brownish pink 
colour." Bot. Reg. 31. 
Cerope'gia ocula'ta. This plant was " raised in the stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens, at 
Kew, from seeds sent from Bombay, by Miss Jones. It is extremely handsome, and very curious, 
as are the Ceropegias in general, in the structure of the flowers, which, in this case, represent 
the head of a snake with a green snout, and eye-like spots above the neck, or narrow part of the 
tube. It is, in many respects, allied to our own C. vinccefolia from the same country, but the 
flowers are larger and handsomer ; the corollas having a much more inflated base, free from 
spots, a very diff'erently marked limb, and a diff'erent form of the corona staminea (nectary). It 
is a ready growing plant, flourishing in a good heat, and it produces its flowers in September." 
It has a slender, twining habit, and smooth herbaceous stems, on which the heart-shaped, long 
pointed leaves are rather distantly produced, opposite to each other. The flowers are collected 
into umbels of four or six, on a short, purple peduncle issuing from the axils of the leaves, and 
are quite as remarkable for their singular colours, as for their unusual form. Bot. Mag. 4093. 
Di'sA cornu'ta. " This charming plant was obtained from the Cape of Good Hope, together 
with the more splendid Disa grandijiora, and other rare Orchidacese, in the summer of 1843, to 
the Royal Gardens of Kew, and it bloomed during the month of December of the same year in a 
cool stove. The plants then died down to the roots, and it is doubtful if we shall succeed in 
flowering the same root a second year, so little is understood of the proper treatment of -Cape 
bulbs and tubers. It is certain the roots often suff"er from being taken up from their native soil 
at an improper season ; and doubtless, too, we have much difficulty to contend with in the change 
of seasons they must undergo in our northern hemisphere, and the want of hot sun to ripen the 
roots in their dormant state. Ther-e is a charming mixture of green and white and purple in the 
flowers of this plant, which contrasted well with the gay and gorgeous blossoms of the Disa 
grandijiora that stood beside it." Including the spikes, it grows about a foot high, and has a 
green stem spotted with red, and leafy to the summit, the lower leaves sheathing it at^the base, 
and also spotted with brownish red. Bot. Mag. 4091. 
Epide'ndrum pteroca'rpum. We cannot say much as to the beauty of this plant, which 
flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, in December 1842. It, however, presents a remarkable instance 
of the formation of broad wings by the fruit, which, when ripe, has three of them of considerable 
size. The lowers are a brownish green, with a broad, rolled up yellow variegated lip, whose 
middle lobe is whitish. It is a native of Mexico, and closely allied to E. tessellatum. 
Bot. Reg. 34. 
Lce'lia maja'lis. This is a handsome little plant with roundish pseudo-bulbs, and oblong 
lanceolate leaves of a thick coriaceous texture. The flowers are borne on a short scape, and are 
about six inches across. The lip is blush-coloured, deepening towards the extremity, and 
prettily spotted, or reticulated. It is a native of Oaxaca, where it inhabits very elevated 
situations. Bot. Reg. 30. 
LoNi'cERA mvERsiFOLiA. " In many respects this Himalayan shrub is much like the common 
Fly Honeysuckle Xylostemn) ; from which it principally diff'ers in its flowers being nearly 
or quite stalkless, and much larger. Dr. Wallich first received it from the Mountains of Gur- 
whal ; he afterwards procured it from Kamaon : according to Dr. Royle it is common on the 
mountains of the North of India. In a wild state it sometimes becomes small-leaved, and 
approaches the common Xylosteurriy but its stalkless flowers still distinguish it. By some 
mistake, it is included by De Candolle among his Nintooas, a set of climbing two-flowered species 
