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of Orchids, at the last Chiswick show, a member of this genus, in general character resembling 
D. adunctm, with broad blunt leaves, and short racemes of flowers, of very light texture, in colour 
French white tinged with pink, with very broken-margined petals, and a much undulated lip, 
broadest at the apex. 
Evoi/vulus ceru x leus, and purpu'ro-oeru'leus. — Mr. Carton, gardener to His Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland, at Sion, sent to the Regent Street Rooms of the Horticultural Society, 
at a recent meeting there, each of the above plants, in bloom ; they are dwarf growing, with 
slender branches, and very small leaves. The colour of their pretty flowers is what their names 
indicate, and they are borne along the upper part of the branches singly, or on short shoots, 
three or four, or more, in a cluster. 
Epide'ndrum. — In the collection of Orchids already referred to, Mr. Mylam had a species of 
this genus, with pseudo-bulbs and leaves similar to those of E. meter ochilum, and bearing fine 
panicles of flowers, whose sepals are linear, whitish, with somewhat linear-lanceolate petals, of a 
similar colour, and an oblong lip, much crumpled and broken up at the margin, blotched and 
spotted with pale purple, but most strongly so at the base. 
Galea'ndra. — In one of the stoves at the Hackney Nursery, a species of the above genus with 
flowers somewhat intermediate between those of 0. Devoniana and Q. JBaueri has been in bloom. 
It has slender pseudo-bulbous stems, which are thickest in the middle, and have graceful, long, 
narrow, lanceolate foliage. The flowers are borne in a similar manner to those of the species 
mentioned, and their sepals and petals are like those of G. Baueri, but the labellum is large, and 
forms a large, rather flat tube, which terminates abruptly, and then sends out its spur. The 
prevailing colour of the labellum is brownish-white, with a blotch of brownish-purple at its throat. 
Ixo v ra. — A new species of this fine genus was exhibited at the late Chiswick Show, by the 
Messrs. Veitch. It has broadly-lanceolate, opposite, pale green leaves, and produces its flowers at 
their axils, and terminally, very freely, in semi-globular corymbs. The colour of the individual 
flowers varies in a manner which renders the whole very lively. The young, just expanding ones, 
wear a golden hue, while those which are perfect, and which constitute the majority, are a creamy- 
rose colour, and those fading are stained with pink. It is a highly ornamental plant, and is an 
importation of the above gentlemen, through their collector, Mr. W. Lobb. 
Onci'dium. — The Messrs. Rollisson have flowered a new and delightful member of this genus. 
It is a Brazilian species, and has rather small oval pseudo-bulbs, and short oblong sanguineous 
leaves ; a flower-scape rising eight or ten inches, with a raceme of six or seven flowers on its 
upper portion. The flowers are large, have oval sepals and nearly circular petals, the prevailing 
colour of both being light brown. The lip is large and very beautiful, approaching a semicircular 
form, with black-red markings at its base, the ground colour deep yellow. Parallel with its outer 
edge is a broad lacing of pale brown, which renders it very striking and novel. The plant 
blooming is very small, so that it may be expected to prove quite a free flowerer ; a considerable 
addition to its other merits. 
Styli'dium sca'ndens. — Messrs. Low, of Upper Clapton, sent to a recent meeting of the 
Horticiiltural Society, in Regent Street, a species of Stylidium, which Dr. Lindley considered 
scandens. The plant was about a foot high, with an erect stem, bearing numerous whorls of long, 
linear leaves, which curl up at their apex, and a small panicle of bright rose-coloured flowers, 
immediately beneath which a new growth of several shoots had commenced, thereby indicating its 
climbing character. 
Tore'nia,. — At the Nursery of the last-mentioned gentlemen, a species of Torenia, with cordate, 
petiolate, serrated, opposite leaves, and flowers which are borne at their axils, similar in shape to 
those of T. asiatica, but different in colour, has recently flowered. The flowers have a dark tube, 
and a four-cleft spreading limb, of a blue-lilac colour. 
