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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
Lockhart of Trinidad, having procured the seeds from Cumana, gave some to Mr. 
Murray of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. " They soon vegetated, and the plants 
blossomed in July, 1840, for the first time, in the greenhouse." Others that were 
planted in the open border, grew more luxuriantly, but did not flower. It will 
constitute a most elegant addition to the genus, and is expected to bloom out of 
doors in favourable seasons. Bot. Mag. 3844. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS THAT HAVE RECENTLY FLOWERED 
IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Epiphyllum purpurascens. a most delightful species of Epyphyllum^ nearly 
related to E. truncatum^ but to which we think the above name applicable, on 
account of the delicate, though not decided, purple hue of its flowers, has been 
imported by Messrs. Rollison, Tooting, from Brazil, and many specimens of it have 
flowered in their nursery. There is but a slight difference between its habit and 
that of E. truncatum. In the latter, the stems are flatter and less rugged, 
and the leafy portions rather broader, and more truncate, with somewhat fewer 
clusters of aculei. The tube of the flowers of our present subject, and the base of 
its sepals and petals, is of pure transparent white, while their spreading portions, 
the circular mark round their throat, and the stigma and style, are of a lovely 
vermilion purple, which cannot be described. It is an exceedingly ornamental object. 
Pentstemon gentianoIdes, vars. Two or three valuable varieties of this 
much-admired and useful plant have flowered during the summer of 1840 in the 
metropolitan collections. One, called coccineus, and which was bloomed by Mr. 
Low, of Clapton, in 1839, has flowers of a hue so much lighter than that of the 
old species, as to make a very near approach to brick red or scarlet, with the 
markings in the interior much plainer and more beautiful. The plant named 
P.fruticosus is, in our opinion, so extremely like the preceding variety, that the 
only discernible difi'erence may be easily ascribed to a dissimilarity in its treatment. 
Another, designated splendens, is superior to the rest in the size of its flowers, and 
the more spreading character of their mouth ; the colour being more crimson than 
that of the variety coccineus. They are particularly desirable for flower-gardens 
and borders, and may be procured of most nurserymen. We have seen the 
splendens chiefly in the Clapton nursery. 
Saccolabium — ? A charming little Orchidaceous plant, apparently allied fco 
both the genera Saccolabium and Aerides^ but with a lip which differs in its form from 
either, is blooming at Messrs. Loddiges' nursery. It has a short stem, and large 
long leaves, which last are remarkable for the conspicuous longitudinal lines of 
alternate dark and light green throughout their surface. The flowers are pro- 
duced on a partially-drooping raceme, are as large as those of Aerides odorata, of a 
whitish ground, with a purple blotch at the extremity of each sepal and petal, and 
a few spots of a similar hue. The labellum is flat, with small raised parallel 
plates, and of a pinkish -purple colour. It is most deliciously fragrant. 
