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plant, with oblong, two-leaved pseudo-bulbs, and copious, erect panicles of flowers. 
The sepals and petals are yellowish green, stained with dull purple towards the 
apex. The labellum is three-lobed, the middle one being broad, wavy, and beau- 
tifully veined with reddish purple. Mr. Skinner having discovered it in Guatemala, 
sent it to the Woburn collection in October, 1839, " and it flowered in the stove in 
the same month of the following year." Bot. Mag. 3898. 
MoRMODEs PARDiNA. The noble flowers of this curious species, associated, as 
they are, so numerously and closely in the raceme, and being of a rich yellow 
ground, thickly spotted and blotched with deep red, compose a no less singular 
than splendid spectacle, and entitle the plant to a considerable share in the 
cultivator's regard. The species has the habit of a Catasehmi, and throws up a 
strong, erect floral raceme from the bottom of the growing pseudo-bulbs. Its 
native country is Mexico, and it has bloomed in the fine collection at Woburn 
Abbey. Bot. Mag. 3900. 
Orchis foli5sa. One of the few handsome OrchidacesB which can be grown 
in the greenhouses of this country, and easily brought to a perfection which is 
unknown in its native state. A figure is given in Dr. Lindley's Sertum OrcMda- 
ceum from a plant that blossomed magnificently in the conservatory of William 
Wells, Esq., of Redleaf, and which grew three feet in height, bearing a pyramid of 
flowers more than a foot long. The blossoms are large, dense, purple, and exceed- 
ingly showy. It inhabits woods and thickets in the island of Madeira, and may be 
cultivated in a greenhouse, in a loamy soil, with proper attention to its times of 
development and torpidity. 
Salvia confertiflora, var. A red-flowered variety of S. confertiflora is here 
represented, which is evidently the one now common in gardens, and it is stated 
that there is a yellow-blossomed kind. The plant is very ornamental, well suited 
for growing in the borders or on lawns during summer, but requiring to be entirely 
unencumbered by other plants, or it loses its symmetry. The leaves of this variety 
are said to be particularly acuminate, and the flower-spikes are of a great length. 
Bot. Mag. 3899. 
Strobilanthes sessilis. This plant, whose blossoms are very handsome, 
Vv^as raised at the Botanic garden, Edinburgh, from seeds sent by Dr. Lusk, from 
Bombay, in 1833, and flowered for the first time in October, 1839 ; but much more 
freely in April, J 841." It is an herbaceous perennial, clothed all over with hairs, 
and having numerous stems, which usually grow about eighteen inches higli. The 
leaves are opposite, cordately-ovate, crenate, wrinkled, and concave above ; while the 
flowers are solitary, sessile, situated in the axils of the bracts, and expanding in 
succession upwards, and several at a time. They are funnel-shaped, and of a fine 
bluish-lilac colour. Bot. Mag., 3902. 
TaberNuEmgntana dichotoma. Growing twelve or sixteen feet in height, this 
species ranks as a small tree, and is described as a " most fragrant and beautiful 
stove plant, resembling a Plumieria in appearance. It is a native of Ceylon, 
