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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS FOR JULY, &c. 
Achimenes cupreata. A new and highly interesting species of Achimenes, remarkable for 
the dark copper colour on the upper side of its rather large, elliptical leaves, (not unlike, in hue, 
those of the copper-coloured beech,) purplish-rose beneath, and the rich scarlet flowers, with the 
segments of the limb beautifully toothed and ciliated. It was detected by Mr. Purdie, on moist 
banks, near Sona, New Grenada, and from seeds sent by him, in September, 1845, to the Royal 
Gardens, plants were reared, which flowered in April, 1847. It requires the same treatment as 
other species of Achimenes. A shallow pan is soon filled with it, owing to the extraordinary 
stoloniferous nature of the plant ; among the dark coppery leaves the bright flowers have a very 
pretty effect. Bot. Mag., 4312. 
Anguloa Clowesii var. Notwithstanding some very trifling discrepancies in structure, and 
more marked ones in the colour of the flower, (which is a fine yellow, with an orange lip,) Sir W. 
Hooker cannot consider this fine plant other than a variety of A. Clowesii, figured by Dr. Lindley 
in the Botanical Register, 1844, tab. 63. It was sent by Mr. Purdie to the Royal Gardens of 
Kew, and bloomed in the collection at Syon, under the skilful management of Mr, Carton, in May 
last. The blossoms are fragrant. Bot. Mag., 4313. 
Cleisostoma ionosmum. A native of Manilla, whence it was sent to Messrs. Loddiges by 
Mr. Cuming It flowered in the Hackney nursery, in March, 1844. The flowers are in an open 
panicle, about an inch across, flat, with five obovate equal obtuse lobes, yellow with cinnamon- 
brown blotches. The lip is white, with a few red streaks, three-lobed, with the basal lobes acute 
and smaller than the middle one, which is cordate, triangular, acute, and much larger than they 
are. The flowers smell pleasantly of violets. Bot. Beg., 41. 
Dendrobium chrysotoxum. A species introduced from the East Indies by Messrs. Henderson, 
and is extremely handsome, It differs from D. densiflorum in its many-angled pseudo-bulbs, small 
bracts, and curiously fringed pubescent, not shaggy, lip ; from D. Griffithianum in its round 
emarginate fringed lip ; and from D. aggregating in the same respects, as well as in its great club- 
shaped, many-leaved, pseudo-bulbs, Bot. Reg., 36. The flowers are bright orange yellow. 
Dendrobium Egertoni^e. This species is very near D. mesochlorum, but the flowers are not 
half the size ; the sepals are pale pink outside ; there is very little appearance of a purple stain 
on the tips of the petals and lip, and the middle of the hp is dull yellow, not green. There 
is, moreover, no tubercle at the back of the point of the spur, and the lip is not fringed, 
except at its base. If it is a less showy species than D. mesochlorum, it is not, on that account, 
less valuable, for its flowers are delightfully scented towards evening. Bot. Beg., 36 Des. 
Dendrobium mesochlorum. This beautiful species, allied to D. crumenatum, and resembling 
it in habit, although destitute of a bulbous base to its stems, was imported from India by Messrs. 
Veitch. The flowers are white, of the size of D. crumenatum, with a violet spot at the ends of 
the petals and lip, and with a green stain in the centre of the latter. They have a faint, but 
agreeable odour. Bot. Reg., 36 Des. 
Echinocactus hextedrophorus. This handsome Cactus has long been cultivated at Kew, and 
is stated to be a native of Tampico. It is of nearly a globose form, and remarkable for its large 
tubercles, which are obscurely six-sided. Its flowering season is June, and the blossoms are pale 
rose coloured, lively and pretty. Bot. Mag., 4311. 
Hypocyrta leucostoma. A Gesneraceous plant, received by Mr. Purdie from New Grenada. 
It bears pretty, drooping, axillary, orange red flowers, in a moist stove, in April. Bot. Mag., 4310. 
PLANTS, NEW OR RARE, IN FLOWER IN OR ABOUT LONDON. 
iEcuMEA discolor. A species much like the AS. fnlgens, figured in No. 1 1 6 of our Magazine, 
though it has far less brilliancy of colour, both in the scarlet of its flower and stem, as well as the 
purple at the tip of each bloom. The specimen was in a collection of plants exhibited by Messrs. 
Lucombe and Co., of Exeter, at the July fete of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park. 
