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beautiful than the latter, of which a figure is given ; for in the month of May, or 
even in April, on the south coast of England, it is one mass of the most brilliant 
snow-white blossoms, tinged with a delicate pink." Its hardihood is, however, 
fully established ; and, if planted in a rich earth, it grows with such rapidity as 
speedily to cover an arbour or other rustic seat, for which it is well adapted. Its 
flowers are, besides, very sweet-scented, and appear earlier than those of any of the 
other hardy species. Lady Amherst introduced it to England from India, and it 
has been very generally called C. odorata. Bot. Reg. 53. 
Cynogl5ssum longifl5rum. This handsome Hound's-tongue was obtained 
from seeds presented to the Horticultural Society by the Honourable East India 
Company, through the medium of Dr. Royle^ having been discovered in Cashmere. 
It is distinguished partly " from the great length of the tube of the corolla, and in 
part from the elongation of the processes which rise up from the mouth of the 
corolla, and alternate with the stamens. They are as long as the projecting 
filaments, curved inwards, and emarginate at the apex, and hollow, which latter 
circumstance renders it probable that they are mere folds of the corolla, and not 
abortive stamina." The flowers are conspicuous, bluish-purple externally, and 
reddish in the centre. The species is a hardy perennial, having stood through last 
winter in the open border without injury. Its flowering season is from the end of 
May to the beginning of August, and it is propagated by divisions or seeds, 
of which the last mode is the best. Bot. Beg. 50. 
Galeandra Bai>eri. Primarily discovered in French Guiana by Mr. Martin, 
and subsequently imported by G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, whose collector, 
Mr. Ross, found it at a place " called Kisatipa, ten leagues from Melacatapec," in 
Mexico. It grows in a dry ravine, where the temperature varies from sixty-nine 
to seventy-seven degrees, Fahrenheit, by day, and falls at night to fifty-nine 
degrees. Plants that have reached the Horticultural Society from Sir. Hartweg, 
bear much duller flowers than Mr. Barker's specimen, but Dr. Lindley is 
certain of the identity of both with the discovery before mentioned ; so that 
the species inhabits a very extensive range of country. It has something 
of the appearance of a Catasetum, though the pseudo-bulbs are more attenuated 
towards the summit, and the flower-spike springs from the top out of the midst of 
the leaves. The hue of the sepals and petals is a greenish brown, and the labellum, 
which is spacious, is of a deep purple, and very showy. It is said to be excessively 
scarce, and thrives in the collection of the Horticultural Society, by simply being 
planted in a well-drained pot of heath-soil, and excited during the growing season, 
but kept torpid in winter. Bot. Reg. 49. 
H5tiea barbata. Better known in our collections by the appellation of 
SpircBa japonica, and rendered comparatively abundant by the introductions effected 
through Dr. Siebold from Japan. It would seem, however, that Dr. Wallich was 
the first discoverer of it in Nepal, and other parts of India, and that the specific 
name here given, applied by that gentleman on account of the spreading hairs 
