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CLASS II.— PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONE^). 
THE LILY TRIBE {LUiacece). 
FuNCKiA ALBO-MARGiNATA. Variegated Funckia. A highly interesting plant, 
hitherto treated as a greenhouse species, but most probably quite hardy, or, at 
least, half-hardy. It is supposed to have been introduced by Dr. Van Siebold 
from Japan, and flowers in the Glasgow Botanic Garden in the month of July. 
It may be at once distinguished by the broad white margins of its foliage. 
Bot. Mag. 3657- 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE {OrchidacecB). 
Phaius albus. White Phaius. A most lovely new orchidaceous plant, first 
discovered by Dr. Wallich upon Mount Chandaghiry in Nepal, and since intro- 
duced to this country by Mr. John Gibson, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire's 
collector. This species is justly said by Dr. Lindley to "rank amongst the most 
showy of the order," and the drawing for the Botanical Register was obtained from 
the collection of Messrs. Loddiges in July last. In a former part of the present 
Number of this Magazine a drawing of this charming plant will be found from 
Chatsworth. Bot. Reg. 33. 
Oattleya pumila. Dwarf Cattleya. This extremely interesting little plant 
is imquestionably distinct from any species of Cattleya previously described. It 
flowered last year in the collection of John AUcard, Esq., by whom it was 
imported from Essequibo, and a drawing of it communicated to the Editor of 
the Botanical Magazine. The plant is of very dwarf habits, the leaves and 
flowers solitary, and the latter are of a rich rosy-purple colour, and very handsome ; 
the labellum is large, expanding at the extremity, and of a deep purple colour. 
Bot. Mag. 3656. 
NOTICES OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL NURSERIES IN THE VICINITY OF LONDON. 
Messrs. Henderson's, Pine- Apple Place. CUntonia pulchella. This elegant 
and highly beautiful little annual is now flowering most profusely at this nursery ; 
we have before recommended it to the notice of our readers, and we now add that 
it is worthy of any and every encomium that may be bestowed upon it. Many 
fine specimens of sleaths, and other beautiful greenhouse plants, are also flowering 
in a high state of excellence, and are cultivated in the usual neat and superior 
manner for which these gentlemen are deservedly noted. A very large plant of 
Callionema pulchra especially attracted our attention, and the peculiar gracefulness 
of its mode of growth, as well as the abundance of its pretty pink blossoms, entitle 
it to a situation among the best greenhouse plants. The excellent collection of 
Alpine, and other herbaceous plants at this nursery, contains many very interesting 
features at the present time, and a neat iron frame has been erected over them, for 
the support of mats to protect them during the winter, which w^e may probably 
make the subject of future notice. 
