FLORICULTURAL NOTICES, 
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Maxilla v ria Wa'rreana. " This is a very distinct and very lovely species of Maxillaria, 
first detected, as it would appear, in Brazil ; at least it was, according to Mr. Loddiges, cultivated 
there by Mr. Warre, after whom it is named. Our plants were sent from St. Martha, New 
Grenada, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, and flowered in the Royal Gardens, and at Syon, in August, 
1845. The delicate and almost snowy, or yellow- white of the ground of the flowers is beautifully 
contrasted with the rich purple of the inside of the lip." Bot. Mag., 4235. 
This is Warrea tricolor of Dr. Lindley. 
Odontoglo'ssum membrana'ceum. " This delicious species," writing of it, Dr. Lindley 
says, " for so it deserves to be called, on account of its agreeable odour and delicate flowers — 
this delicious species is quite like 0. Cervantesii, figured in this work at p. 36, of the 
volume for last year, in general appearance, and may possibly be a mere variety of it. It differs, 
however, hi the following respects : — Its flowers are white, and rather larger, and the lip is spotted 
at the base ; its petals are much blunter ; its lip is very deeply heart-shaped, and quite rounded at 
the point ; the two front teeth of the lip are shorter, and less hairy ; and the concavity at the 
base of the lip has a much smaller central tubercle. In other respects the two plants may be 
considered as being identical. They are both Mexican, and may be regarded as among the finest 
species of that country." Bot. Beg., 34. 
Pri'mula involucra n ta. " This is a neat and very desirable sweet-scented little hardy alpine 
perennial, which grows freely in a soil composed of sandy loam and leaf- mould. It attains a 
height of six inches, flowers from March to May, and sometimes a second time during the 
growing season." When in a state of dormancy, it should be preserved comparatively dry, to 
prevent the chance of injury from damp. It has recently been " raised in the garden of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, from seeds from the North of India, presented by Captain Win. Munro," and 
was said to have been found in the neighbourhood of water, 1 1,500 feet above the sea. Bot.Beg., 31. 
Saxifra'ga thysanq x des. " The confusion that reigns among the Berganian Saxifrages of 
India has been mentioned at fol. 65 of the volume of this work for 1843. It has, no doubt, arisen 
from the inadvertant intermixture of different species under the same name, as is sufficiently 
shown by the example before us, which was sent from India as the true S. ciliata. But it cannot 
be that, because its inflorescence is compact and nearly simple, its leaves hirsute on both sides, 
and its calyx perfectly smooth. It is in reality a plant of which dried specimens were distributed 
from the India House, before the return of Dr. Wallich, under the name of S. ligulata. But it 
differs from S. ligulata in its short petals, more diminutive inflorescence, and hirsute crenated 
leaves, which are by no means cordate, as those of ligulata always are." It is a dwarf, hardy 
perennial, flowering in April. Bot. Reg., 33. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS EXHIBITED IN LONDON OR ITS SUBURBS, IN FLOWER, 
OR DESERVING NOTICE. 
Achime v nes parens. This long-desired lovely species of a lovely family is in the possession 
of the Horticultural Society, and was in present flower, at their last meeting in Regent Street. 
Mr. Hartweg met with it at Mexico on his way out to California on another botanical exhibition, 
and despatched it to this country by post. The habit and appearance of the plant is like that 
of A. grandiflora, and its flowers bear some resemblance to those of that species, but are unlike 
it in having a curious spur, and being of a much finer colour : at least, some varieties are. There 
were two varieties present at the meeting above mentioned, one with larger but paler flowers than 
the other, and with the spur larger and of a different colour to its flower. The variety with smaller 
flowers is much the most superior, its flowers beautiful deep bright purple, with the spur small 
and of the same deep colour. 
Angulo'a spes. — Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, had in a collection 
of Orchidew he exhibited at the recent meeting of the Royal Botanic Society, a very fine member 
of this genus, with somewhat slender long pseudo-bulbs, bearing seven flowers, something in colour 
and shape like those of Acineta Hwmboldti, but much larger, and the colouring in larger spots and 
blotches, the lip rather large ; a dull crimson colour ; the flowers supported on strong peduncles 
nine inches to a foot high. No perfect foliage was borne by the plant at the time of its flowering, 
further than the leaves of the young growth, which were rising in a fine healthy manner. 
^Eschyna'nthus pu'lcher. This is a member of a very ornamental genus recently added to the 
fine species we already possess, by the Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, who have imported it from Java. 
