FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
in height, and the flowers are of a reddish tint, slightly tinged with greenish white 
on the outside. Plants of it are blooming in the stove of Messrs. Young, of Epsom ; 
and it is believed to be a native of Mexico, or of South America. 
Epidendrum phceniceum. Flowers of this noble plant were opened, two 
months ago, with Messrs. Loddiges, who obtained it from Cuba. They remained 
expanded many weeks. It is a pseudo-bulbous species, with a particularly healthy 
aspect, having moderately large, roundish pseudo-bulbs, and very long scapes of 
flowers. The latter have a trifling resemblance to those of E. macrochilum, but 
are even superior. They are produced on a branching spike, are of considerable 
size, and have deep pinkish purple sepals and petals, with a paler border, and a 
fine pink lip. The species has few rivals among Epidendra. 
Gesnera ? A new species of Gesnera is flowering in a stove at Messrs. 
Rollisson s, Tooting. It was imported from Brazil, and has long, narrow, serrated 
leaves, with pretty red blossoms, which are spotted with yellow towards the top, 
and covered on the outside with dark red processes, or clusters of hairs. It is 
somewhat similar to G. elongata in habit. 
LIlium atrosanguIneum ; var. maculatum. This magnificent Lily is only 
separated from its species by having the flowers mottled with a lighter hue. The 
general colour is a deep, rich, indescribable orange-red. It lately blossomed at the 
nursery of Messrs. Young, Epsom, and is invaluable as a border-flower. 
Marianthus c^ri^leo-punctatus. One of the most interesting and graceful 
of greenhouse climbers, beginning to bloom in the month of May, and continuing 
till the present period. The stems are slender, the leaves small and narrow, and 
the flowers are protruded in large clusters on long peduncles. They are of a light 
blue tint, spotted in the middle with a darker hue. It has decorated the green- 
house of Messrs. Henderson for several months. 
Nemesia floribi5nda. Where a bed of white flowers is wanted for the 
flower-garden in July and August, it cannot be better filled than with this 
delightful little annual ; which has the appearance of a Linaria^ of dwarf habits, 
with great numbers of pretty white blossoms, the centre of which is yellow. It is 
flowering most prodigally at Messrs. Rollisson's, and elsewhere. 
Odontoglossum pulchellum. Messrs. Rollisson bloomed this exceedingly 
elegant Orchidaceous plant in the month of April. It has long, narrow, lined 
leaves, and flowers, about an inch in diameter, which are almost entirely white, the 
column alone having a yellow front. This last organ bears a singular large 
reflexed lip-like appendage, and the labellum is quite minute. 
Paxt5nia rosea. Messrs. Loddiges have this year bloomed in great per- 
fection a specimen of the species here mentioned, which had sprung up accidentally 
from seeds ripened and scattered in their Orchidaceous-house. The occurrence of 
this circumstance opens quite a new field in the propagation of the species, and it is 
difficult to say how many more Orchidace® might not, by impregnation, be 
increased in the same manner. 
