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work, and considers that it approximates to our M. atrata in some of its 
characters, though it differs materially in being of stronger habits, in its larger, 
less-closely-placed, and more projecting mammillse, in its stronger and more numerous 
aculei, its larger flowers, and the great inequality in the size and shape of the 
petals of the flowers, which are moreover of a paler red colour, and yellowish 
towards the base. Bot. Mag. 3647- 
CLASS IL— PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONE^). 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (OrchidacecB). 
Stenia pallida. Pale Stenia. This is a rather pretty little epiphyte, 
imported from Deraerara, by G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, in whose very 
extensive collection of orchidaceous plants it flowered last August. It is of dwarf 
habits, and produces its pale yellow flowers at the base of the leaves. It will 
thrive well with the treatment usually given to Maxillarias. Bot. Reg. 20. 
We had the pleasure of witnessing this interesting orchidaceous plant in a 
flowering state in the rich collection of the above gentleman some months ago, and 
we then pronounced it to be quite new, and distinct from any we had previously 
seen. 
Cymbidium triste. Lurid-flowered Cymbidium. A very remarkable 
epiphyte, with purplish-yellow flowers, which are produced on a short, drooping, 
sessile raceme, from the axil of a leaf. It grows from eight to ten inches high, and 
the leaves are from three to five inches in length, terete, fleshy, and green. It is 
a native of various countries in the south-eastern portion of the Old World, among 
which the principal are New Caledonia (where it was first discovered by Forster 
during the celebrated voyage of Captain Cook), the Marianne Islands, Japan, 
Ceylon, and Nepal. Bot. Mag. 3648. 
NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
IN FLOWER IN THE LEADING NURSERIES IN THE VICINITY OF LONDON. 
Messrs. Henderson's, Pine- Apple Place. Azalea Indica Smithii. We have 
previously noticed a fine specimen of this beautiful plant at the above nursery, but 
there are two plants of it now in flower, which we cannot refrain from adverting 
to here. The specimens to which we allude, are without doubt the most perfect 
instances of the successful cultivation of either the species or varieties of this 
splendid genus we ever before witnessed, and as far as we are aware, have never 
been surpassed. They are now so densely covered with their showy flowers, that 
it would be almost difficult to discern either branches or foliage, and they 
present to the eye one unbroken and uniform mass of living beauty, hitherto we 
believe unrivalled. Amongst the numerous beautiful varieties of Cineraria now 
