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notched out in the middle, and very delicately streaked with purple. Its petals, too, are both 
shorter and broader than in either of those two species. Its habit is precisely theirs ; and the 
three, considering their constant flowering and very neat appearance, deserve a place in all 
collections. Besides, this species smells deliciously of cinnamon. The Hoi^ticultural Society's 
plants were received from Mexico, where they were gathered by Mr, Hartweg. Dr. Schiede 
also collected specimens in that country, on rocks, at the Hacienda de la Laguna. Bot. Reg. 45. 
Gloxinia speciosa varieties. This is a neat group of four handsome seedling varieties 
— magnificafinsignis, bicolor, and Carionii — grown at Mr. Glendinning's nursery, Turnham-Green. 
They were first raised in the gardens of the Duke of Northumberland at Syon, by his Grace's 
gardener, Mr. Carton, who has been long celebrated for producing various interesting novelties 
by hybridizing." They were obtained from G. speciosum, fertilised with the pollen of Sinningia 
guttata. Bot. Reg. 48. 
Laca'ena bico'lor. " This fine plant was sent to the Horticultural Society from Guatemala, 
by Mr. Hartweg, who found it in the mountains of Salama, in the province of Vera Paz ; also 
near the village of Sunil, near Quezaltenango, in Guatemala, growing on rocks, at an elevation 
of about 7,000 feet above the sea. In May, 1843, it produced its flowers, and ever since has 
been in such bad health that it is doubtful if it will survive. In habit, the species is so like some 
of the Peristerias with pendulous racemes, that it would certainly be mistaken for them, and in 
structure it approaches them no doubt very closely. It is, however, essentially distinguished by 
the labellum and pollen apparatus. In Peristerias, the labellum, although having a moveable 
joint in the middle, is continuous with the column by a thick fleshy base ; here the articulation at 
that part is very conspicuous. The Peristerias have four pollen-masses ; here we have but two. 
And, finally, the strap by which the pollen-masses adhere is long and slender, like that of a 
Li/caste, not deficient, so as to render the pollen-masses sessile upon a crescent-shaped gland, as 
in Peristerias. The flowers of this plant are formed in a pendulous raceme, as much as eighteen 
inches long ; the lower part being clothed with distant short blunt scales, which extend into bracts 
about half the length of the pedicels. Each raceme consists of nine or ten flowers of dull 
greenish-yellow, covered externally with short hairs ; their petals have three streaks of violet ; 
their lip is downy all over the upper surface, dark purple in the middle, with two or three spots 
of the same colour near the point. In the centre of the lower half is a large shaggy hump." 
Bot. Reg. 50. 
Lepa'jnthes sangu'inea, Mr. Purdie, a collector for Kew Gardens, found this plant on the 
high mountains of Jamaica, and sent specimens home. " It does not seem to be a described 
species, but is nearly allied to L. tridentata of Swartz ; diff'ering from it in the colour of the 
flowers, in the latter being always erect, not resupinate, ciliated all round the borders of the 
calyx, and in the much shorter peduncles. It is rather a botanical curiosity than a florist's 
plant, and forms a striking contrast with the majority of Orchideous Epiphytes." It is a very 
diminutive plant, growing in tufts among moss on the trunks of trees, in its native regions. At 
Kew it is attached to a small piece of the husk of a cocoa-nut. Bot. Mag. 4112. 
LoMA^TiA TiNCTORiA. " A native of Van Diemen's Land, and introduced thence by the late 
Mr. Allan Cunningham to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it flourishes and flowers best in a 
cool frame. The specific name was given by M. Labillardiere, in consequence of the rose- 
coloured dye produced by the mealy dust which clothes the seeds when infused in water. It 
flowers during the summer months with us." In its native country, this shrub is said to grow 
five or six feet high ; but it rarely reaches more than two or three feet in England. The upper 
part of the stem runs out into a long raceme of sulphur-coloured flowers, tipped with green, 
especially before they open. Bot. Mag. 4110, 
Saccola^bium gutta^tum. " Nothing can exceed the delicacy and texture of the racemes of 
the flowers ; and Dr. Roxburgh observes, that they are not inferior in beauty to any of the whole 
tribe of Orchidacese. It is a native of the East Indies, and it appears to have first blossomed iu 
Europe in the Kew Gardens, in 1820. The plant flowers in the spring months, continuing long 
in perfection. It is cultivated on a portion of the branch of a tree, to which the roots cling 
sufficiently to give it support." The racemes of flowers are sometimes nearly a foot long, 
furnished with delicate white flowers, spotted with purple, forming a dense cylindrical mass. 
Bot. Mag. 4108. 
