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FLOMCULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR INTERESTING RECENTLY FLOWERED PLANTS, IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITAN 
N UK SERIES AND GARDENS. 
Aca'cta squama'ta. From the Upper Clapton Nursery (Messrs. Low's) this plant was sent 
last month to a meeting of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street. It is an open, very 
slender-branching species, with very slender alternate leaves, at whose axils the flowers are 
borne. These are yellow, and produced very freely ; but there are seldom more than two at each 
leaf expanded at one time. 
Anse'llia Africa'na. A noble specimen of this plant is now blooming in the nursery of 
Messrs. Loddiges. It consists of upwards of a dozen pseudo-bulbs, some of which are just 
issuing their panicles of blossom, and others already bear expanded flowers, whose rich yellow 
labellum and dark brown spotted sepals and petals give the plant quite a gay — while from the 
drooping of the panicles is derived — a graceful aspect. The vigour and freedom with which 
A. Africana flowers add greatly to its attractions. 
Azaleas. In one of the greenhouses of the Horticultural Society's gardens, A. squamata and 
obtusa are flowering finely. In habit both these species are dwarf and compact. The latter has 
small dark rich scarlet flowers, but produces them most profusely. The former also flowers 
freely. Its flowers are described in another page. Both are interesting additions to the many 
kinds already in cultivation. 
Co'rrea. A beautiful Correa, a hybrid variety, is flowering at Messrs. Henderson's, Pine- 
apple Place, With them it at present is only distinguished from others by the No. 23. Its 
foliage is very neat and small, clear green, and therefore minus the rusty appearance so common 
to members of this genus. The chief peculiarity of this variety is the long peduncles of its flowers ; 
they are about an inch long, and so slender, that the least movement of the plant, or of the atmo- 
sphere in its vicinity, occasions a trembling in the whole of the flowers. The latter are a reddish 
orange colour. 
Cymbi'dium Mastersia^num ? The Messrs. Loddiges are flowering a Cymbidium, which they 
suspect to be this species. The specimen blooming is a fine one, has leaves about two feet long and 
not more than an inch wide, it is sending out several racemes of flowers that are borne in pairs, 
and are as large as the blossoms of Cattleya Harrisonice, pure white, with a dash of yellow down 
the centre of the labellum. It is a very superior species. 
Da'phne Fortu v ni. This interesting plant is bearing its delicate lilac flowers most prodigally 
in the garden of the Horticultural Society. It blossoms in a leafless state, but notwithstanding is 
an acquisition to the greenhouse at this season. 
Dendro^bium specio'sum. In the last-mentioned establishment this extraordinary Dendrobe 
is flowering very finely. The specimen is a fine one, approaching five feet in diameter, and has 
nineteen spikes of bloom, proceeding from as many pseudo-bulbs, that average two feet in length. 
One of the largest spikes bore more than a hundred blossoms. The latter are yellow and sweet- 
scented, and when produced as they are by the specimen in question, are very ornamental. 
L^lia supe'rbiens. On the introduction of this plant to our country it was remarked to be 
the most gorgeous of its genus, or indeed of any of the Orchid family. The celebrated specimen in 
the possession of the Horticultural Society has this season flowered in a manner which testifies that 
character is a just one. It has had nine flower-scapes, averaging six feet or thereabouts in height, 
each bearing a large cluster of flowers on its summit. One of them had as many as thirteen blossoms. 
Leschena'ultia obla x ta. This plant is well deserving of attention, not only as blooming this 
time of year, but also for the profusion, large size, and brilliant colour of its flowers. It is more 
robust in habit than L. formosa, and has flowers of a bright flame colour. Another variety, whose 
flowers are paler and smaller than those of the above, but an equally profuse bloomer, we noticed 
with that species in the Nursery of Messrs. Frazer, Lea-bridge Road. 
Onci'dium la'cerum. A species differing from 0. Ceboletum in having pendulous, longer, and 
more slender pseudo-bulbs. The flower-scape is about two feet high, and bears abundance of 
blossom. We observed flowering plants at Messrs. Loddige's and in the collection of Mr. Beck, 
Isle worth. 
