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treated, it flowers readily in the autumnal months, at which season our specimen bloomed in the 
Royal Gardens of Kew. The column, long and slender and much convex, has not inaptly been 
compared to a swan's neck, whence, as is well known, the generic appellation is derived ; but to us 
it appears to have a still greater similarity to a Cobra da Capella, the swollen and dilated apex 
below the anther very accurately representing the inflated throat of that dreaded reptile, while the 
colour and marking serve to increase the resemblance." This plant, when not flowei'ing, very 
much resembles some of the Catasetums, Mormodes, &c, but its flowers are very extraordinary, 
and are so in consequence of their shape, which it is difficult to convey an idea of by describing. 
The colours of the flower are dingy, and not remarkable. Bot. Mag., 4215. 
Catase v tum callo'sum. var. grandiflo v rum. " This singular plant," writes Sir W. J. 
Hooker, " of which the flowers may, I think, be likened to the body and legs of a great spider, is 
from the rich collection in Syon Gardens, and was received by His Grace the Duke of Northum- 
berland from Columbia. Notwithstanding the large size of the blossoms, and the slightly dissi- 
milar form and different colour of the lip, I fear it can only be considered a variety of C. callosum 
of Dr. Lindley, and I am the more confirmed in this opinion from afterwards receiving from Syon 
a smaller state of the same plant, exactly, as it were, intermediate between the two. Its long pen- 
dant spikes of dingy purple flowers, of which the floral coverings are singularly divaricated, the 
three upper pieces being applied to the back of the column, the two lower to the under side of the 
lip, are produced in December." Bot. Mag., 4219. 
Dendro'bium adu'ncum. Flowered in the establishment of the Messrs. Loddiges in 1842 ; it 
was received by them from Dr. Wallich, who sent it from Calcutta. "In some respects it is 
allied to D. Pierardi, especially in its small pink flowers and manner of growth ; but it is more 
closely related to D. moschatum, of which it may be regarded as a feeble imitation. It is, how- 
ever, widely different from both, and is especially known by its half-transparent flowers, of the 
most delicate texture and clearest tints. Why it is called D. aduncum, or whence it comes, we 
know not," Bot. Beg., 15. 
Fugo v sia he'terophylla. " A very pretty shrub, named by Cavanilles in honour of Bernard 
Cienfuegos, a Spanish botanist of the 16th century, and now, we believe, first cultivated in 
England from seeds sent home from St. Martha, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, in 1845. At the 
Syon Gardens, where our figure was made, plants flowered in the same year. The general 
appearance of the blossoms is not much unlike those of Turnera ulmifolia ; but when the centre 
of the flower is examined, each of the five petals will be found to have a rich scarlet or blood- 
coloured, pectinated spot, the teeth or rays arranged with the most perfect regularity." The 
plant is " a rather twiggy, erect, branching, glabrous shrub," with "alternate, somewhat remote, 
upon rather long slender footstalks, oval or oblong leaves." The flowers are produced at the 
axils of the leaves, on long peduncles, and are composed "of five broadly cuneate, oblique and 
imbricated almost twisted petals, tapering into a short claw of a yellow colour, with a deep blood- 
coloured blotch." Redontean heterophylla is a synonyme. Bot. Mag., 4218. 
Gesne'ria Honde'nsis. " A very handsome Gesneria, new to our gardens, discovered by 
Humboldt, at Honda, New Grenada. Tubers were sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew, by 
Mr. Purdie, early in 1845, one of them, from which the drawing is here made, flowered at Syon 
Gardens in December of the same year. The rich scarlet of the flowers, yellow at the mouth, 
remind one of the well-kn,own Manettia bicolor ; but here the red is due to the shaggy hairs, 
altogether of that colour, with which the tube of the corolla is clothed for almost its whole length. 
It requires the same kind of treatment as other species of this fine genus ; and it appears that, by 
a little management in forcing or retarding the tubers, they may be made to blossom at almost 
every season of the year." Bot. Mag., 4217. 
Ko'psia frutico v sa. It is stated by Dr. Roxburgh that this plant was introduced into the 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta, from Pegu, and there flowered constantly ; that " its flowers are 
like those of Vinca rosea, but larger, and faintly fragrant. It is, in fact," he continues, " one of 
the most ornamental shrubs in the garden." " This," writes Sir W. J. Hooker, "is not saying 
too much, for certainly in cultivation this plant is a great ornament to our stoves, and though not 
in constant flower, it blooms several times in the year and at very uncertain seasons, and 
continues some time in beauty," De Candolle separates it from the genus Cerbera. It is a native 
of the peninsula or islands of Malay ; and was probably first introduced into Europe by Messrs. 
