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and humid atmosphere is requisite to succeed in growing it, and after it has done flowering, the 
shoots should be well pruned back, to keep it bushy. 
Aru'ndina bambusifo'lia. Messrs. Loddiges have recently flowered a specimen of this 
species received from India in 1839. It is an elegant Orchidaceous plant, with numerous long 
slender stems, growing two feet high, and probably more, clothed with narrow bright-green 
grass-like leaves. The flowers are of a medium size, and are supported on a scape issuing from 
the end of the shoots. The petals are twice the breadth of the sepals, and both are of a soft pink 
hue. The lip overwraps the column at the base, and is indistinctly three-lobed ; the middle lobe 
being deeply notched at the end, somewhat undulated on the margin, and of a rich crimson- 
purple colour. It grows best in a well-drained pot filled with a fibrous peat, and placed in a 
warm house kept pretty moist during the growing season. 
Catase^tum na*so. This is one of the handsomest species of this singular genus. It was 
received from Mr. Linden into the collection of Sigismund Rucker, Esq., of Wandsworth, where 
Mr. Mylam, the gardener, succeeded in flowering it last year for the first time, and the same 
specimen again produced blossoms about the middle of last month. The ground colour of the 
sepals and petals is not of that dingy green common to the majority of Catasetttf but very nearly 
approaches white, being only slightly tinged with a greenish-yellow : they are also numerously 
spotted with deep crimson. The helmet-shaped lip is of a very dark indescribable colour in the 
interior, and terminates in a long snout, forcibly reminding one of the head and trunk of an 
elephant. As the flowers are of a more lively colour than the rest of the genus, and their 
structure in every respect as curious, it is deserving of a place in the choicest collection of 
Orchidacese. 
Chiro^nia floribu'nda. a pretty little plant, which ought to be in every greenhouse. It 
branches profusely from the base, forming a densely compact bush, about a foot high, and is 
almost continually studded over with purple flowers, which, though not very large, yet, from 
their abundance and bright shining appearance, impart a conspicuousness to it that renders it a 
very desirable species. It has been flowering for some time in the nursery of Mr. Jackson, of 
Kingston, and is evidently identical with one at Messrs. Rollisson's, of Tooting, called 
C. Fischeri. 
Cgelogy'ne Cumi'ngii. a strong specimen of this deliciously scented species of Coelogyne is 
flowering in one of Messrs. Loddiges' Orchidacea houses at the Hackney nursery. It has 
roundish pseudo-bulbs produced on a creeping rhizoma, and surmounted by a pair of rather 
broad, elliptic, lance-shaped, five-nerved leaves, between which the scape supporting the flowers 
ascends. The flowers are handsome, of a clear, unsullied white, with the exception of a portion 
of the lip, which is stained with orange and yellow, and has three parallel raised plates frilled on 
the top and tinged at the end with a dark brownish red. They yield a fragrance not unlike that 
of Hyacinths. It is a native of Sincapore, and was forwarded to Messrs. Loddiges by Mr. 
Cuming, m 1840. It should be grown in a basket, or on a block of wood, always observing to be 
careful that no water falls on the flowers, as it discolours and makes them decay much earlier 
than they would if kept perfectly dry. This, and other Cculogynes, may be propagated by severing 
a portion of the older parts of the rhizoma with a pseudo-bulb, potting it in fibrous peat^ 
allowing very little water till the buds from the base of the latter begin to swell and break. 
Convo'lvulus Sibtho'rpii. In habit, this plant agrees with C. althaoides, and, like that 
species, will be a very interesting ornament to those piles of rock which frequently adjoin the 
parterre or the greenhouse, or for training round a wire trellis on a lawn. The characters of 
the species are perhaps more nearly those of C hryonifolia, but it never attains the vigour and 
strength of that species. The leaves are broad and variously lobed, and sinuated on the margin. 
The flowers are something larger than those of the former species, of a rich and beautifully 
shaded pink hue, with a deep violet throat ; and being clustered together on axillary peduncles, 
and pretty freely produced, have a showy appearance. It needs the protection of a frame during 
winter. A specimen was in flower a short time ago, at Messrs. Henderson's Nursery, Pme- 
apple Place. 
Diplade'nia crassino'da. The beautiful new stove-plant recently flowered at Mr. Loraine's, 
and known in nurseries and gardens as EcMtes carassa, under which name it was noticed at 
p. 213 of our last month's Number, is crassinoda, and belongs to that section of the genus 
which has been separated by De Candolle, and described under the name given above, which is 
