FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
description ; but the flowers, although similarly elevated on rigid erect spikes to 
those of the common kinds, and having besides the ordinary white sepals and petals, 
possess a large and beautiful lip, which is at first blue, and gradually changes to a 
brownish or tawny colour. 
Cattleya guttata ; Tiar. Russelliana. — Inferior to the original species in the 
size of its flowers, as well as in the richness of their hues, but constituting a very 
interesting variety. It has peculiarly tall slender stems, and the sepals and petals, 
which are of a bright green ground, are spotted rather scantily and minutely with 
brownish purple. The lip is deep pinkish-purple, narrow, and somewhat truncated 
at the apex. It is blooming with Messrs. RoUisson. 
Cattleya Harrisoni^e ; var. alba. — A most lovely variety of an exceedingly 
showy species ; differing from that species in having its blossom throughout of a 
delicate whitish hue, slightly tinted with blush. The lip has also a dash of yellow 
towards the base. Messrs. Loddiges have recently flowered it in great beauty. 
DicrIpta BicoLOR. — All the Dicriptas are remarkable for the Iris-like form of 
their leaves, these being opposite to each other, sheathing one another and the stem 
at the base, channelled on the inside, and narrowing away into pointed terminations. 
The present species is noticeable for the length, thickness, and vigour of its foliage, 
and for the greater dimensions and showiness of its flowers. The latter are 
solitary, raised on axillary peduncles, and of an intense orange colour, with a 
dark-brown lip. Plants have just blossomed in the orchidaceous-house of Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
Fuchsia radicans. — Known in nurseries by the name of cirffhniB^ but more 
appropriately and primarily called F. radicmis from the disposition of the branches 
to root at the joints, under favourable circumstances. It has somewhat climbing 
or trailing stems, singularly long discoloured leaves, and flowers which approach 
some of the older species ; the calyx being crimson, and the corolla an intense 
bluish purple. It is a very handsome plant, and we have just seen it in flower at 
Messrs. Young's, of Epsom. 
Ipom(EA tyriajnthina. — The flowers of this superb plant, recently developed 
in a stove at Messrs. Henderson's, Pine-apple Place, are superior in colour to those 
of any heretofore introduced, and confirm our previous assertion that it is one of 
the most splendid of the tribe. The hue of the blossoms is of an indescribably 
brilliant reddish purple, comparable to nothing which we have ever met with, 
except, perhaps, the colouring matter, as exhibited without any preparation, in a 
newly-crushed cochineal insect. 
Marianthus — ? A pretty new species of Marianthus^ of the same general 
habit as M. coerideo-punctatus (figured at p. 247 of the present Number), but 
destitute of hairiness, and bearing flowers of a deeper blue tint, has flowered in a 
pit with Mr. Low, of Clapton. In another season, when the plant has been more 
fully developed, it will doubtless be as good an ornament to the greenhouse as its 
very interesting ally. 
