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has recently expanded flowers of a delicate and beautiful pink hue^ in the collection of Messrs. 
LoddigeSj at Hackney. It is one of the pseudo-bulbous groups, with two or three thick leathery 
leaves, and a flower-stalk, issuing from among them. The scape is brownish purple, with 
numerous whitish warty excrescences spread over its surface ; it grows about eighteen inches 
high, bearing along the upper portion a number of large flowers with long, lanceolate, acute, 
sepals, and petals of a slighly dissimilar form, tapering more towards the base ; both are widely 
spread. The lip is divided into three lobes ; the lateral ones are small, and recline on the 
column, a little refiexed at the extremity ; the middle lobe is very large and expansive, deep 
purple in the centre, and becoming paler towards the margin, and prettily streaked with purple 
lines in the way of E. phceniceum. The plants thrive well, and the flowers always last much 
longer in a cool house. 
Erioste'mon sca^brum. Under this name we have lately observed a handsome new green- 
house species, in the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, who received it from 
the gardens of Baron Hugel, at Vienna, about twelve months back. In habit it much resembles 
the other species ; but has narrow linear leaves, which, though they exhibit the starry pale pink 
flowers more freely, are wanting in that pleasing breadth of green, which is so engaging in 
E. buxifolium, even when without flowers. To obtain good, bushy, spreading specimens, it will 
be necessary to stop the growing shoots frequently when the plants are young, and to promote 
their vigour by a tolerably large pot filled with a compost of peat and loam. The soil will be the 
more appropriate for being pretty open and fibrous. 
Franci'scea pohlia'na. We first observed this species in the nursery of Mr. Low, of 
Clapton, and have recently seen specimens flowering with Messrs. Henderson, of Pine^ Apple 
Place, and in the exotic nursery of Mr. Knight, of Chelsea. We believe it was introduced to 
England through the continental nurseries. It is a small, upright, branching plant with purplish 
stems, and elliptic lance-shaped foliage, clothed with short downy hairs on both surfaces. The 
flowers are produced in a loose head at the end of each shoot, are equal in size to those of 
F. nmjlora, but have a little more of a violet tinge. A stove-heat appears to be necessary to 
keep it in a healthy state. 
Ixo'ra acumina'ta. This is a stove plant of considerable beauty, with handsome bright green 
leaves, frequently above a foot long. Although not so gaudy as the /. coccinea, the large showy 
masses of flower which push from the ends of the lateral shoots, are very interesting. Plants 
eighteen inches, or two feet high, flower well in a stove-heat. The flowers are deliciously 
fragrant. 
Nola'na. Last year Mr. Best, gardener to Alexander Park,^ Esq., of Merton Grove, 
succeeded in raising plants from Chilian seeds of a shrubby species of JVolana, and has several 
speciraensi in flower at the present time. The stem grows erect, producing a profusion of lateral 
shoots, Covered with short linear succulent leaves. It bears flowers as large as a Petunia, and 
much tl/e same shape, having a light yellowish tube, and a spreading limb of a beautiful pale 
lavender blue. To flower it well, it will probably require a dry well-drained soil, and to be 
exposed to a bright sunshine. It may be multiplied by cuttings with great facility. 
Ny'mph^a Ru'bra. This noble aquatic has lately flowered in a trough of water, in one of 
the stoves at Mr. Knight's nursery, Chelsea. The flowers are elevated a few inches above the 
surface of the water, on long gradually ascending stalks, and are from four to four 
and a half inches in diameter. When the sun shines on them, the beautiful crimson purple hue 
of the petals assumes a hundred different shades, mingling and losing themselves one in another, 
almost imperceptibly. The floating peltate leaves are very deeply coloured — almost olive. 
Onci'dium ? Decidedly one of the most distinct and pleasing amongst the numerous 
known Oncidia, is a new species, now flowei-ing with Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, by whom it 
was obtained from the Brazils last year. The flowers are arranged in a simple raceme, at the 
end of a scape, about eighteen inches long, covered with a glaucous bloom, easily rubbing off. 
The sepals and petals are very small, but the lip is large and prominent, in shape much like 
that of O. flexuosum. The expansive portion is bright yellow, and the crest, which is much 
larger than in most species, w4th flowers of similar magnitude, is of a rich violet-purple colour, 
producing a striking and pleasing contrast with the yellow. The pseudo-bulbs are roundish, and 
the leaves small. 
