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years, received a powerful stimulus by the appearance of a number of excellent 
hybrids in various collections ; and either from this cause, or from the more extensive 
practice of propagation by grafting, C. rufa has now become more common. It is, 
so far as relates to habit, and its appearance when not in flower, without exception, 
the best species of the genus. The plant is well-formed, and grows luxuriantly, 
while its oval leaves are of the richest shining verdure on the upper side, and a 
deep ferruginous brown beneath. Flowering at the present dull season, it is also 
very serviceable in the greenhouse, and even its unhandsome whitish blossoms, so 
prettily pendent from the branches, have very considerable attractions, when 
viewed in contrast with the beautiful green and brown foliage. 
Cymbidium iridifolium. a newly-imported pseudo-bulb of this delightful 
plant, is at present producing a spike of flowers with Messrs. RoUison, Tooting ; 
and it would appear to be a particularly choice species. It difi*ers from the rest of 
the species (some of which are quite destitute of pseudo-bulbs, and bear radical 
leaves) in having short, thick, nearly oval pseudo-bulbs, from the base of which 
the flower-scape is protruded ; this last depending, and disposing its blossoms in the 
same manner as C. aloi/olium. The flowers are of a dark fuscous hue, with a deep 
brown, almost black spot, nearly covering the lip. 
Daphne Indica ; var. rubra. Of the few plants Vvhich are prized for 
enlivening the greenhouse with their blossoms in the winter months, this rare 
Daphne is one of the most interesting, as it possesses both a high degree of beauty, 
and a delicious odour. It has long evergreen foliage, which is of itself a pleasing 
feature, while the blossoms issue from the branches in dense clusters. They are of 
a dark purple externally, the interior of the petals is pale pink, and the yellow 
anthers which rise in the centre contribute much to heiohten their charms. Plants 
of this variety are blossoming in a stove at Messrs. Eollison's, Tooting ; but it 
will unquestionably succeed in the greenhouse. 
HoiTZA MEXiCANA. There is either some peculiar way of cultivating this 
singular plant which British floriculturists have not yet discovered, or it is entirely 
worthless. The latter assumption strikes us as being the most correct ; for Ve 
have attentively observed plants that were grown under every variety of circum- 
stance, (having been led to consider it a showy species,) and the same withered, 
paltry appearance, with a marked deficiency of flowers, has invariably been the 
result of our examination. Indeed, we have never yet seen its blossoms expanded, 
except when it was planted in the open ground, and there is rarely more than two 
or three open at once on the same stem. It has usually a great number of stems, 
the leaves are small, much and irregularly toothed, but seldom of a lively green, 
and the whole plant is clothed with hairs. Its flowers are long, tubular, and 
reddish pink ; being, however, so slender as never to be very conspicuous. 
IpoMtEA Pi^RGANS. While in the orchidaceous house of Messrs. Loddiges 
this pretty new species is flowering liberally, a plant at Messrs. RoUison's has just 
unfolded a few blossoms on the open wall. It is a very elegant climbing plant, 
with ovately-cordate, acuminate leaves, and light purple flowers, the limb of which 
