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NEW AND RARE PLANTS IN FLOWER. 
bulbs, with bright azure-coloured flowers ; it is flowering at the present time in 
the greenhouse of the above nursery, but the flowers are extremely fugitive. 
Messrs. Loddxges, Hackney. Cgrtochilum Bigtonense. A new and highly 
beautiful orchidaceous plant, of a rather extraordinary size for a species of the 
above genus. The plant which is now flowering in the splendid collection of these 
gentlemen, has a flower-spike full three feet in length, but it is said to attain the 
astonishing height of six feet. The flower-stem grows quite erect, and the flowers 
are produced at the distance of about an inch from each other, nearly its whole length. 
The blossoms are of a rich lilac and brown colour, and exceedingly ornamental. 
These gentlemen have also recently flowered a new species of Cgcnoches, which is 
somewhat similar to C. ventricosum, but the flowers are much larger, and their 
colour is a dingy yellow, approaching to orange. Avigrcecum gladiifolium. A 
small but interesting new species of this genus, with delicate white blossoms, and 
ovate-lanceolate leaves, is flowering very freely at this nursery, and is worthy of 
the notice of all admirers of this tribe. Some magnificent specimens of Lilium 
speciosum and L. lancifolium roseum, are now most splendidly in flower, and their 
exquisite delicacy and beauty cannot be too highly appreciated. 
Mr. Low's, Clapton. Lilium lancifolium album. A fine variety, for which 
our collections are indebted to Dr. Siebold ; its flowers are large and pure white, 
with reflexed petals, and the habit of the plant is very bold and handsome. It 
is now flowering profusely at this nursery, and L. lancifolium roseum has 
likewise recently flowered with this gentleman. Both varieties are indispensable 
to a collection of greenhouse bulbs. Verbena Tweedieana splendens and grandiflora. 
Two distinct varieties of this very beautiful species, the former of which has 
flowers of a richer colour than those of even V. chamcedrifolia, with the superior 
character of the species to which it is allied ; the latter variety is not of so brilliant 
a colour, but its flowers are larger, and either or both of them are admirably 
adapted for flower-garden purposes. In the nursery above-mentioned they are now 
flowering, as well as in those of Messrs. Rollison and Young. 
Messrs. Eollison's, Tooting. In the orchidaceous house of these gentlemen, 
there has recently flowered a species of Stanhopea, which surpasses in size and 
splendour all other species which we have previously seen, and (Cattlegas excepted), 
we may safely add, all other orchidaceous plants. This most magnificent plant 
possesses the following distinctive characters : — the leaf-stalks are furrowed only to 
within about two inches of the pseudo-bulbs, which latter portion of them is 
perfectly smooth ; the flowers are produced in pairs, after the manner of S. grandi- 
flora ; their extreme width from the tip of one sepal to that of the opposite one, is 
eight inches ; the sepals are of a stone-coloured ground, but the lower part of them 
is completely obscured with a rich sanguineous purple, there being otherwise but 
few spots and blotches on them ; the petals are marked with broad horizontal 
stripes, of a still darker hue than that of the sepals, and the lip bears some 
resemblance to that of S. insignis. The specimen we are now noticing produced 
