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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
THE BEAN TRIBE (LEGUMINOSJE). 
Desmodium Canadense. Canadian Desmodium. This beautiful species is 
quite hardy, and richly deserves a place in every flower garden, on account of its 
numerous racemes of handsome blossoms, which are produced in July. Plant 
nearly two feet high, erect ; leaves pinnately trifoliate ; flowers of a fine purple 
rose colour. Bot. Mag., 3553. 
LIMNANTHACEJE. 
Limnanthes Douglasii. Mr. Douglas's Limnanthes. This pretty hardy 
annual with white and yellow flowers, very fragrant, was discovered by Mr. 
Douglas, in California. It is of easy cultivation, and flowers in June and July. 
Bot. Mag., 3554. 
CLASS II — PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONE^). 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (ORCHIDE^e). 
Oncidium lunatum. Crescent-lipped Oncidium. This very interesting and' 
pretty little species of oncidium was imported from Demerara, by Messrs. Loddiges, 
in whose collection it flowered about June last. It is in some measure related to 
O. Harrisonianum, from which, however, it is abundantly distinct. The crescent- 
shaped lip is quite peculiar to this species ; and the very blunt flat sepals con- 
spicuously point it out. It may be treated like the other popular species of this 
genus. Bot. Beg., 1929. 
Among the smaller flowered species of this genus, the O. lunatum we deem 
extremely interesting ; the flowers are small, with the parts well proportioned, the 
sepals and petals are of a lively yellow, blotched irregularly with dark orange 
brown, while the lip is nearly white, except a few pinkish spots, which run in a 
circular direction parallel with the margin of the lip. It appears to flower freely. 
THE AMARYLLIS TRIBE (AMA RYLLIDE^). 
Hippeastrum breviflorum. Short-flowered Knight's Star Lily. This 
distinct and handsome species blossomed in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden, in April, 1836 ; bulbs of it having been previously sent there by Mr. 
Tweedie, from the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres. The scape rises nearly three 
feet high, and is crowned by an umbel of six flowers, destitute of fragrance; 
externally they are tinged slightly with yellow green, and marked with a central 
broad red streak, vanishing below the middle within ; the same red streak is 
separated by a white line down the middle. It requires the stove. Bot. Mag., 3549. 
THE LILY TRIBE (lILIACEjE). 
Tulbaghia violacea. Violet-flowered Tulbaghia. This handsome flower- 
ing plant is a native of Southern Africa, and produces on an erect slender scape, 
which springs from the crown of the roots, an umbel consisting of from eight to 
nine flowers, of a shining bright purple colour, and very powerfully scented. 
Bot. Mag., 3555. 
