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of the leaf, and are comparatively large and handsome. Their sepals and petals are dingy brown and 
slightly spotted, while the lip has three lobes, of a bright yellow, only a little blotched and spotted 
with blood-red around the crest. " The plant appears to grow in large masses on the branches 
of trees, to which it is attached by its numerous, round, filiform, ash-coloured roots. It is grown 
at Carclew, in a warm, moist stove, suspended from one of the rafters." Bot. Reg. 43. 
Renanthe'ra matuti'na. " Although this plant bears no comparison with the magnificent 
Chinese species on which the genus was founded, yet it is very far from being unworthy of 
cultivation. Indeed, by the number of its flowers and the richness, though not brilliancy, of their 
spots, it makes up in some measure for their want of size. The first mention that is made of it is 
in Blume's Bijdragen, where it is referred with doubt to the genus Aerides, and said to be found 
in flower in the month of September, on trees at the foot of Mount Salak, in Java. Mr. Cuming 
afterwards gathered it at the Philippines, but by no means in so luxuriant a state as the specimen 
now represented, which flowered at Chatsworth in December last." It has also bloomed at 
Messrs. Rollisson's, Tooting. Bot. Reg. 41. 
Rosa Brunonii. " A native of Nepal and Kamoon, whence it has been sent to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, where, planted against a wall facing the west, it proves perfectly hardy, and, in 
the summer months, it makes a handsome appearance with its large corymbs of white or slightly- 
cream- coloured, fragrant flowers, which, in age, assume another tint, being then singularly 
spotted with dingy purple. Our plant seems less glandular and downy than the one figured and 
described by Dr. Lindley, and is probably the variety depilata, from Kamoon." It is a half- 
climbing shrub. Bot. Mag. 4030. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED AT THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Angr^e'cum biWbum. This very elegant and curious little plant is now bearing racemes of 
flowers, eight or nine inches in length, with twelve or fourteen blossoms on each, at Messrs. 
Loddiges' nursery, Hackney. The leaves are peculiar for their form, being broad, and having 
an irregular two-lobed termination, while they are of a remarkably deep green hue, with very 
dark and distinct reticulated veins. The flowers are conspicuous for their snowy whiteness, which 
renders them very lovely. 
Angr^cum cauda^tum is not so singular as the last in some respects, but it is more so in 
having such peculiarly long tail-like appendages to its blossoms. These tails, which are twisted 
somewhat in the manner of a corkscrew, only not so closely, are often from six to nine inches long. 
The flowers are produced in bold racemes, and have a beautiful white lip. Being difficult to 
propagate, it is yet rare. A plant of it is blooming at Messrs. Loddiges'. 
An^ctochi v lus seta^ceus. A delicate East Indian Orchidaceous plant, resembling the 
common Goodyera, and always pleasing, on account of its prettily-marked foliage. The leaves 
are of a very deep olive-green hue, with numerous orange-coloured veins. They have a remark- 
ably rich and velvety appearance. The flowers are borne on erect spikes, and would, from being 
of a greenish colour, have little attractiveness, but for the beautiful white lip, which has many 
hair-like appendages to its sides, after the manner of a fringe. The plant is grown in the usual 
heath-mould, and is generally kept covered with a small bell-glass. It must be guarded from 
becoming too moist. 
Babia'na ru v bro-cya v nea. This is quite an old species, but rare, and particularly ornamental. 
It grows only about three inches in height, with slightly hairy leaves, and bunches of blossoms 
whose colours are exceedingly handsome. They are of a very deep blue, with a rich crimson 
centre. It blooms in July, and we noticed it in several gardens, where every one seemed to 
admire it. 
Brugman'sia ? Mr. Low, of Clapton, has lately had sent to him from the country a 
flowering specimen of a kind of Brugmansia, which has the dwarf and close habit of B. sanguined, 
with similarly formed and downy leaves, but flowers like those of B. suaveolens, and apparently 
quite as white. The blossoms were all shed in travelling. It may possibly be a hybrid, though 
it has none of the appearance of being so. 
