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FLOmCULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
DECEMBER AND JANUARY. 
Achime'nes ro'sea. The name AcUmenes was given primarily by Dr. Patrick Browne to two 
species, one of which (since called Trevirania coccinea) has long been common in our gardens. 
The priority of application of the original name has led to its being restored. A. rosea is some- 
thing like A. coccinea, but has rich rosy flowers, spotted in the centre ; and "the peduncles are 
more slender, with more spreading hairs, and a general tendency to branch. The proportion, too, 
between the limb and the tube of the corolla seems materially different, and the leaves are covered 
with elevated asperities, on each of which a hair is placed. Mr. Hartweg found it in Guatemala, 
and sent roots of it to the Horticultural Society in wliose garden, at Chiswick, it flowered for 
several months during last autumn. Bot. Reg. 65. 
Aquile'gia Skinne'ri. Described as one of the finest species of Aquilegia at present 
known. It was transmitted to Woburn Abbey, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, by 
G. U. Skinner, Esq., from Guatemala, and is remarkable as coming from a more southerly district 
than any other American Columbine. It is, nevertheless, entirely hardy, having " survived the 
severe winter of 1840-41 in the open ground at Woburn, and flowered in great beauty through the 
summer and autumn of 1841." The flowers have greenish petals ; but the sepals of the calyx are 
prolonged into large spurs, which are of a brilliant red colour. It will doubtless prove a very 
handsome acquisition to our flower-borders. Bot. Mag. 3919. 
Ca'ttleya granulo'sa. An exceedingly scarce species, of which only one small specimen 
exists in the gardens of the Horticultural Society, to which it was forwarded by Mr. Hartweg, 
from Guatemala. It has a slender stem, with two terminal narrow leaves, resembling those of 
C. bicolor. But a single flower has yet been produced, which has olive-coloui'ed sepals and petals, 
mottled with brown, and a Avhitish lip, which is beautifully spotted with orange and pink in the 
inside. The middle lobe of the lip "has its surface broken up into numerous granulations." It 
demands quite a low temperature, compared with the Dendrobise and other tribes. Bot. Reg. 1 . 
Dendro^bium Di'scoLOR. The species so named, although from Java, is found by Dr. Lindley 
to be the same as D. undulatum, met with by "Dr. Brown, on the north coast of New Holland, 
and before him by Sir Joseph Banks in the same country." It must consequently be henceforth 
called D. undulatum. 
Glossoco'mia ova^ta. Glossocomia is a genus separated from Campamda ; and the present 
species is a " pretty hardy perennial, with spindle-shaped roots." It is not inclined to twine, like 
G. lurida, " seldom growing more than one foot and a half high. It flourishes well in any good 
garden soil, and flowers in July. It is easily increased from seeds, treated like those of 
Campanula carpatica, and the more slender species of that genus." The flowers are bell-shaped, 
solitary, terminal, pendulous, and of a purplish-white tint, with darker streaks radiating from the 
centre. Bot. Reg. 3. 
Houlle^tia vitta'ta. Received by Messrs. Loddiges from Mr. Schomburgk. Its habit is 
like that of Maxillaria Warreana, but not so strong, and the flowers are singularly striped with 
brown on a yellowish ground. " At the base of the hypochilium (or lower part of the lip) is a 
downy tubercle, which projects towards a small three-toothed plate, which is directed backwards 
from the base of the metachilium. The latter has two falcate lobes, which curve forwards, and 
have in the recess formed by their junction a triangular fleshy tooth. The epichilium (or upper 
extremity of the lip) is lozenge- shaped, and rounded at the point." Bot. Reg. 69. 
Lysima^chia lobelioi^des. Although found by Dr. Wallich's agents in Nepal and other 
districts of Northern India in 1821, this plant has only lately been introduced to England by the 
Hon. Court of the East India Company, who presented seeds to the Horticultural Society. " It 
is a hardy perennial, well adapted for rock work, and similar purposes ; for although its flowers 
ai'e simple and unattractive, they are very sweet-scented, and the foliage is neat, while the general 
growth of the plant is close but graceful. In a good season it would ripen seeds abundantly." 
