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of the lip, which is more or less evidently lobed at the side, and has the veins dis- 
tinctly elevated." The blossoms, during their expansion, are delightfully fragrant in 
the evening of the day. The leaf is rigid, erect, slightly incurved at the edges, and 
the spike of flowers, which becomes half-pendent, proceeds from the base of each 
leaf, or from the point at which it is connected with the stem. In preference to grow- 
ing the species of Brasavola in pots, it is judiciously observed that they thrive best 
when tied to a log of wood, and their roots partially covered with a few lumps of 
heath-soil. Suspension from the top of the house is of course necessary. The 
present species was imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Honduras. Bot. Reg. 39. 
L^LiA RUBESCENS. Although this lovely plant wants the size and showiness 
of flowers which characterize some of its congeners, it appears to us to be one of 
the most truly interesting species we have yet seen. The colour of the sepals and 
petals is a whitish cream, delicately shaded with pink, and having a tinge of green 
on the outside near the extremities. The labellum is of the same hue, with a yellow 
blotch in the centre, and a large deep purple one at the base. The petals and 
labellum are beautifully undulated at the margins, but the sepals seem quite desti- 
tute of this character. It has small, oblong, compressed, tetragonal pseudo-bulbs, 
on the top of which a re situated short, solitary, stifle leaves ; and the scape is pro- 
truded from the summit of the pseudo-bulbs, bearing its flowers pretty closely 
together near the apex. Its great charm is the very soft and pleasing tints of the 
blossoms. It can be cultivated as other Lcelias in a low temperature and dry 
atmosphere during winter, but must have more moisture, heat, and shade in the 
summer season. Bot. Reg. 41 . 
LopEZTA LiiNEATA. Without any great claims to be considered handsome, this 
singular plant is certainly pretty, and even ornamental. It is a greenhouse shrub, 
with robust and rather succulent stems, and growing about three feet in height. 
" It is chiefly valuable in the months of January and February, when it is covered 
by little insect-like red flowers, and is at that time so difl'erent in appearance from 
other plants of the season, that it becomes a doubly welcome acquisition." Flowers 
are also produced throughout the latter part of the autumn. Mexico is its native 
country, and it was found by Mr. Ilartweg, in a district called the Banco. From 
seeds collected in this spot, and sent to the Horticultural Society, it has latterly 
bloomed in this country. Propagation is easily eflected by seeds, in any garden 
soil ; and it is supposed that it might succeed with the treatment of a half-hardy 
annual, if somewhat stimulated in the spring, and induced to flov*^er before its 
natural period. Bot. Reg. 40. 
LupiNUS LEPTOCARPUS. Another of the attractive species sent home by Mr. 
Hartweg from Mexico, where it was collected in pine woods near Bolanos, 8000 
feet above the level of the sea. It is a " hardy straggling biennial plant, growing 
two or three feet high, and blossoming in the latter part of summer and autumn, 
when it becomes a very gay decoration of the flower garden. It has much the 
habit of L. rivularis, to which indeed it nearly approaches." The flowers have 
