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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
THE COMPOUND FLOWER TRIBE (COMPOSITiE). 
Madia elegans. Elegant Madia. This is a striking- hardy annual; the 
flowers are yellow, with a blood coloured spot at the base of some of the petals : 
it is desirable for the flower border, where it flowers through most of the summer 
months. Bot. Mag., 3548. 
CLASS n._PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONE^). 
THE LILY TRIBE (LILIACEiE). 
LiLiUM PEREGRINUM. Narrow-sepaled White Lily. This species grows very 
strong, and produces from eight to ten bold white flowers, each three inches long, 
on a terminal spike. The bulb was imported from the Cape of Good Hope, to 
which country it had been most likely introduced from Holland by some of the 
Dutch colonists. It flowers in July. JBrit. FL Gard.., 367. 
ORCHIS TRIBE (ORCHIDEJE). 
Oncidium crispum. Curled-flowered Oncidium. We noticed this handsome 
species in the Niimber for August, from a fine figure in the Botanical Magazine for 
June, 3499. Suffice it to say that the representation in the Botanical Register for 
January consists of eight beautiful large deep chestnut-coloured flowers on a 
single scape, produced in the hot-house of Richard Harrison, Esq., Liverpool. 
There appears to be no bounds to this very interesting and justly-admired family of 
plants. Dr. Lindley notices in the Number before us (January) twelve distinct 
andhandsome species of the genus Oncidium, most of which are at present, but we 
hope will not be long, unknown to our collections. We anticipate ere long seeing 
species now conspicuous for their beauty in our hothouses, or only known to the 
botanist from specimens in his herbarium, brought to the highest state of perfection 
in a degree of heatvery little above that required for New Holland plants. Should 
this be realised — and there is good reason to hope it will — our plant-houses generally 
will become a source of delight and amusementj to say the least, nearly double to 
what they are at present. 
orchis tribe (ORCHIDEiE). 
Trigonidium obtusum. Blunt-petaled Trigonidium. A most singular 
species with a very odd appearance, the petals are of a dirty blotched yellow, 
somewhat obtusej and considerably reflexed ; it is said to be of easy cultivation, 
and to flower freely. It was introduced through the exertions of Mr. Colly, in 
Demerara. Bot. Reg. 1923. 
BuRLiNGTONiA CANDIDA. Suow-white Burliugtonia. The vegetable kingdom 
comprehends nothing more perfectly lovely than the delicate flowers of this plant, 
in which not a tinge of colour sullies the snow-white transparency of the petals, 
unless it be a faint dash of straw colour on the lip. For its introduction to this 
country we are indebted to Mr. Bateman, who imported it from Demerara, and 
flowered it in his rich collection at Knipersly, in April 1835. The aspect of 
the plant is that of Notylia punctata with its pendulous scape, but the flowers 
seem to have no parallel among the whole extensive natural order of Orchideae, 
^but, as Dr. Lindley observes, its lower sepals being united into one, its lip 
