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those of the former days, till at last the whole mass became a globe of living and 
glowing crimson. This brilliant head appeared on the side of the main stem, among 
the leaves, which at that time presented a singular phenomenon. Every evening 
they rose up and lifted themselves from the blossoms to expose them to the dew, 
so that each morning these beautiful objects were uncovered ; but as day advanced 
the leaves gradually drooped, and bent down over the flowers to guard them from 
the rays of the sun." A damp stove is the most suitable for the cultivation of this 
species, but it should be sufficiently high to admit of its growing erectly. The soil 
ought to be slightly enriched. Bot. Reg. SO. 
Catasetum Tr^lla. The species of this genus are mostly uninteresting except 
for tlieir curious forms, and the present plant is simply remarkable for the shape of 
its floral lip. This " has much the form of a trowel, and is not at all hollowed out 
into a bag. It is merely concave like the bowl of a spoon." Mr. James Rigby, of 
the Stanhope Nursery, Old Brorapton, obtained it from some of the tropical parts 
of America, and it produced a spike of thirty flowers in September last. The 
main colour of the blossoms is a deep green, the labellum being brown in the centre. 
Bot. Reg. 34. 
CcELOGYNE flaccida. A pleasiug little epiphyte, " native of Noakote, in 
Nepal, where Dr. Wallich found it growing on trees. Its long, stalked, narrow 
leaves, and the stiff scales that surround the base of the scapes and pseudo-bulbs, 
mottled with pitch-brown, as if they were scorched, readily point out this species." 
The flowers appear in long pendulous racemes, and are very abundant. They are 
white, with some yellow blotches, and a few small pink streaks on the lip. " There 
is nothing worse for these plants than allowing their leading shoot to damp off ; it 
is some time before they form another, and then it is generally much weaker than 
the former one." Messrs. Loddiges flowered the plant in the early part of the 
present season. Bot. Reg. 31. 
Morm6des pardina, var. unicolor. This fine variety lacks the numerous 
spottings w^hich are apparent in the flowers of the species, and has blossoms of a 
pure yellow colour. It is a handsome orchidaceous plant, with the habit of a 
Catasetum^ and long racemes of showy sweet-scented flowers, which expand in 
September. Mr. Parkinson, of Mexico, sent it to the collection at Woburn Abbey, 
where it bloomed in 1840. Bot. Mag. 3879. 
PiMELEA sPECTABiLis. No moro Ornamental plant than this has yet been 
procured from the Swan River Colony. It surpasses all its allies both in the size 
and beauty of the flowers, which, though somewhat like those of P. hispida^ are 
larger, and in far more copious heads, besides being surrounded wuth prominent 
bracts, wdiich are often richly tinged with deep crimson. The species is readily 
identified by its rather glaucous foliage, which is arranged up the stem in four 
distinct lines or rows. In the gardens of the Horticultural Society, where there 
are several varieties, it is planted out in the bed of the conservatory, and thrives in 
great luxuriance. Bot. Reg. 33. 
