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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
showy, but beautifully fringed, which renders the plant rather attractive. Bot. 
Reg. 8. 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (Orchidacece). 
Epidendrum floribundum. Many-flowered Epidendrum. A beautiful species 
of Epidendrum, communicated by James Bateman, Esq., who obtained the figure 
from a specimen in the collection of the Messrs. Loddiges, by whom it was 
imported from Mexico, some years ago : the plant has a long leafy stem, about a 
foot high, with a terminal branched panicle about four inches long, bearing 
numerous flowers, each on a long pedicle ; the sepals are a greenish brown, petals 
white, and the lip is white with a curved line of red dots. Bot. Mag. 3637* 
Cirrhopetalum thonarsii. Insular Cirrliopetalum. A very curious plant, 
and one of the most extensively diffused of all the epiphytal Orchidacese, being 
found in the Society Islands, in Java, in the isles of France and Madagascar, and 
in Manilla, whence Messrs. Loddiges received it from Mr. Cumming. The flower 
stem is produced from the small pseudo-bulb, and is about nine inches long, bearing 
an umbel of ten or twelve flowers, and nothing can be more singular than the long 
strap-shaped sepals growing from one side of the flower and almost bearing them 
down with their weight ; the petals are yellow, finely spotted with red, bordered 
with bristle-pointed teeth, and terminated in a long awl-shaped point. Bot. 
Beg. 11. 
VICTORIA REGIA. 
" Great interest having been excited by the stories told in the newspapers of 
this extraordinary plant, the following account has been taken from a memoir upon 
the subject, of which twenty-five copies only have been privately circulated. Some 
botanical explanations concerning the genus, not introduced into the original 
memoir, are here given from such materials as I possess." 
" An undoubted addition to a tribe of plants at once so beautiful and so cir- 
cumscribed as that of the Nymphs, or water-lilies, would be an event of interest 
even if it only related to a distinctly-marked species of some well-known genus. 
But when the subject of the discovery is not only a new genus, but a plant of the 
most extraordinary beauty, fragrant, and of dimensions previously unheard of in 
the whole vegetable kingdom, except in the colossal family of Palms, an interest 
must then attach to it, which can rarely be possessed by a novelty in natural 
history. 
" Such a plant is the subject of the following notice : — A Water-lily, exhibiting 
a new type of structure-, of the most noble aspect, of the richest colours, and so 
gigantic that its leaves measure above eighteen feet, and its flower nearly four feet 
in circumference. It was met with in British Guiana, in lat. 4° 30' N., long. 
58° W. nearly, by Mr. Robert Schomburgk, a German gentleman, travelling on 
account of the Royal Geographical Society, assisted by her Majesty's Government, 
for the purpose of examining the natural productions of that part of the British 
