FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
upon the hills of about 4500 feet. All the species are called Manaca (the Indian name) by the 
Brazilians, and this receives the name of Manaca dobrado. It is a beautiful plant, but does not 
ripen its seeds freely. I have only been able to procure a few, which I send. " These seeds," Sir 
W. J. Hooker writes, " have been reared in Glasgow and Kew, and from the produce of them our 
present figure was taken." Mr. Gardner found, in 1840, in Minas Geraes, a species slightly dif- 
ferent from the present ; which he considered Pohl's plant, and which also Mr. Bentham consi- 
dered the true F. hydrangeceformis of that author, looking upon the one figured as a distinct 
species, F. capitata. Sir W. J. Hooker thinks they are varieties only. A stove plant of robust 
habit, and low growth, with alternate, oblong-ovate, entire leaves, from six to ten inches long, 
flowering similar to Hydrangea hortensis. Flowers " large, of a fine rich blue purple, becoming 
paler and almost white in age." Bot. Mag., 4209. 
Gloxi'nia pallidiflo v ra was sent from Santa Martha by Mr. Purdie, collector to the Royal 
Kew Botanic Gardens, where it flowered in October, 1845. It has erect, herbaceous, green, spot- 
less stems, opposite, broadly and obliquely ovate leaves, and flowers smaller, paler, and more 
inclining to blue, than are those of the old Q. maculata. Bot. Mag,, 4213. 
Lobe x lia glandulo v sa„ " This is a hardy herbaceous plant, of the easiest cultivation, growing 
freely in any kind of garden soil, and not unlike the well-known L. siphilitica, but much less showy. 
It attains the height of two and a half feet, flowers in September and October, and like so many 
of its race, prefers a moist situation to a dry one. Elliot says that it grows in damp Pine barrens." 
Seeds of this plant, gathered in North Carolina, have been raised in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society. It forms an undivided angular stem, three to four feet high, " covered with short hairs." 
Its leaves are sessile, ovate-lanceolate, and its pale-blue flowers are borne closely on spikes about a 
foot long. Bot. Reg., 6. 
Mormo'des Carto v ni is an Orchidaceous plant, with clustered pseudo-bulbs, about a span long, 
from the apex of which the perfect leaves are produced in threes or fours. They are narrow, 
linear-lanceolate, a foot or more in length. The flowers, which are numerous, are borne in oblong 
spikes, on scapes growing erect from the pseudo-bulbs. Their "sepals and petals are nearly 
uniform in size and shape, much spreading, almost reflexed, oblong-lanceolate, acute, yellow, with 
red longitudinal streaks. Lip equal in length with the petals, but singularly obliquely twisted ; 
of a pale-yellow colour, with a few red interrupted streaks." It was found by Mr. Purdie, at the 
foot of Sierra Nevada, in the interior of Santa Martha, and sent by him from thence. Flowers 
were first produced in November, 1845, in the gardens of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 
at Syon, and in compliment to that nobleman's gardener, Mr. Carton, it is specifically named. 
Bot. Mag., 4214. 
Mastacan'thus sinensis. " This is an autumn-flowering herbaceous plant, growing from one 
and a half to two feet high, and forming neat little bushy tufts. It is, in a gardening point of view, 
of some importance, because it furnishes an abundance of rich violet blossoms, at a season when 
that colour, never abundant, is peculiarly rare in gardens." A soft-wooded greenhouse plant, 
growing wild in the vicinity of Canton, and sent to the Horticultural Society by their collector, 
Mr. Fortune, who found it in Chusan, and Koo-long-soo. It flowered in the garden of the Society, 
last October. Bot. Beg., 2. 
Milto'nia specta'bilis. This genus was named by Dr. Lindley, in compliment to Lord 
Fitzwilliam. Sir W. J. Hooker writes, " A more lovely genus, or a more distinct one, the whole 
family of Orchideos cannot boast, and it has the advantage of its blossoms remaining a long time in 
perfection. With us it flowers in the Orchideous house, in the month of August." The plant is 
composed of a creeping rhizoma, from underneath which fibrous roots grow, and above, oblong 
pseudo-bulbs, which bear two terminal rather drooping leaves. The flowers are borne solitarily, on 
scapes a foot high ; they are large, and their " sepals and petals nearly alike, all spreading, or 
more or less recurved, oblong, obtuse, slightly waved, white or cream-coloured, with a tinge of 
rose at the base." The very large, pendent, obovate lip, is of a whitish ground colour, "suffused 
with a fine rosy tint, deepest towards the base, and in all the furrows of the plicse. Bot. 
Mag., 4204. 
Neptu v nia ple v na. " This curious water-plant, with sensitive leaves, has been raised from 
seeds recently sent from Jamaica by Mr. Purdie, and a specimen of it, from the collection of His 
Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Syon, was exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural 
Society, in October last. Its long spongy stems throw out innumerable thread-like roots, and, 
