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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
THE CORN FLAG TRIBE (Iridacece). 
Triton i a fucata. Painted Tritonia. Although this singular plant has been 
in the rich collection of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert for twenty-five years, it 
did not produce its flowers till the summer of 1837- In the preceding autumn that 
gentleman caused a quantity of manure to be placed over the spot in which the 
bulbs were growing, and to this circumstance alone he attributes the production of 
its flowers. These latter are of a bright scarlet colour on the upper side, while the 
lower segments of the corolla and the under side of the tube are yellow, striped 
with scarlet. It is a very showy species, perfectly hardy, and remains in flower 
nearly a month. May be increased with the greatest facility by separating the 
bulbs. Bot. Reg. 35. 
THE LILY TRIBE (Liliacea). 
Funckia Sieboldiana. Dr. Siebold's Funckia. Another interesting species 
for which this country is indebted to the celebrated Dr. Siebold, who discovered it 
in Japan, and introduced it from thence to the continental gardens, from whence it 
has been received into the Glasgow Botanic Garden and elsewhere. This species 
is by no means so good as F. alho-marginata, the flowers being paler and less 
showy. It has hitherto been kept in the greenhouse, where it flowers in July, but 
will probably prove quite hardy. Bot. Mag. 3663. 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE {Orchidacecs). 
Phal^enopsis amabile. The Indian Butterfly Plant. Dr. Lindley obtained 
the drawing of this lovely plant from Messrs. Rollison, Tooting, with whom it 
flowered a short time since, having been received by them from Manilla, through 
Mr. Cumming. It is noticed by Rumph, as growing in Amboyna, and he 
describes it as attaching itself to short, thick trees, covered with moss, up which it 
turns like a rope, and from which it hangs down in entangled tufts. It thrives 
best when fastened to a small block of wood, covering the roots with moss, and 
suspending it from the roof of the orchidaceous house. It appears very difficult to 
propagate. Bot. Reg. 34. 
Epidendrum viridx-purpureum. Purplish-green Epidendrum. A new and 
certainly not an uninteresting species, imported from Jamaica by Mr. Horsfall, of 
Liverpool, in whose collection it was first brought into flower. The pretty purple 
blotch on the labellum of this species gives it a rather attractive appearance, 
otherwise the flowers are of a dull-green colour, the sepals being tipped with 
brown, and of the usual character of many other species of this genus. Bot. 
Mag. 3666. 
