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beautifully delicate rose-colour. It was raised from seeds in the Royal Gardens at 
Kew, and has been treated as a greenhouse species, in which situation it flowers in 
the month of July. Bot. Mag. 3671. 
THE NIGHTSHADE TRIBE (Solanacece). 
Solanum campanulatum. Bell-flower Solanum. The distinguishing cha- 
racteristic of this large and beautiful species, besides its flowers being campanulate, 
from which its name has arisen, is its being so liberally furnished with aculei ; 
since the stems, leaves, calyx, and every part of the plant except the flowers, are 
completely armed with these formidable prickles. The well-known Mr. Brown 
first found it near Port Jackson, and noticed it in his excellent Prodromus. It 
grows and flowers freely in the greenhouse, requiring a rich soil and an abundance 
of pot room, Bot. Mag. 3672. 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (Orchidacea). 
Maxillaria Rollisonii. Messrs. Rollison s Maxillaria. A very beautiful 
and interesting little plant, which we have before noticed as being very similar to 
M. stapelioides in its size and foliage, but widely different from it in its flowers, 
which are of a lightish yellow colour, the labellum being very prettily spotted with 
pink and red. It was imported by Messrs. Rollison, Tooting, from Brazil, and 
first flowered with them in August last. Bot. Reg. 40. 
Cyrtochilum maculatum. Spotted Cyrtochilum. This plant is stated to 
have produced its flowers for the first time in this country in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, having been sent thither by Mr. Hartwig from Vera Cruz. 
It has since flowered at Messrs. Rollison's, with G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, 
and we have succeeded in flowering it at Chatsworth. It is a very neat and pretty 
species, and Dr. Lindley observes that it has been mistaken for the Oncidium 
tigrinum of La Llave and Lexarza, which he states is "a very different plant, with 
a reniform lip placed upon a long stalk." Bot. Reg. 44. 
Corycium orobanchoides. Broom-rape Corycium. An inconspicuous but 
very curious little plant, which flowered in the collection of J. Rodgers, Esq. Jun., 
at Streatham, and which Dr. Lindley believes to be the first Corycium that has 
ever flowered in Europe. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it grows 
in a sandy soil, and flowers in September and October. Bot. Reg. 45. 
Zygopetalum Murrayanum. Mr. Murray's Zygopetalum. This is one of 
the interesting productions of the Organ Mountains of Brazil, which have been 
recently explored by Mr. Gardiner, and this plant, with many others, sent to this 
country. It is certainly far inferior to most of the other splendid species, but 
nevertheless a very neat and pretty plant, producing flowers of a greenish-yellow 
colour, with a white labellum, which is striped with purple, and the column is 
streaked with red. It flowered in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and is named by 
Mr. Gardiner in compliment to Mr. Murray, the skilful curator of that establish- 
ment. Bot. Mag. 3674. 
