NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 
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NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS. 
Aerides crispum. Sir R. Brooke's Air-plant. — 
This is the A. Brookei of Bateman in Bot. Register, 
1841, and of our Mag. of Botany, \o\. ix. t. 145. It is a 
native of CouFtallam in the East Indies, and is one of 
the most lovely of the genus. Being a native of a hot 
and moist climate, it requires to be kept in the warmest 
division of the orchid house witli a larger portion of 
light than is usually given to plants of this description. 
After the flowering season, lessen the supply of water, 
and give the same treatment as other species of brides. 
—Bot. Mag., 4427. 
iEscHYNANTHUs Paxtoni. This plant has large, 
convex, dark green, even leaves, which are slightly 
marked on the under side with impressed dots. The 
bracts are of unusual size, thin, pale green, slightly 
stained with red. The sepals are remarkably large and 
broad, and are divided to the very base. The flowers 
are dull red, with a flat limb, divided into four nearly 
equal lobes, which are square at the end, as if they had 
been cut ofi^. It seems to be most nearly allied to 
M. ramosissimus and Griffithii. It forms a trailing 
half shrubby stove plant, growing either in a well- 
drained pot of leaf-mould and broken crocks, or fixed 
to a block of wood, and surrounded with moss. It 
requires a moist atmosphere whilst in a growing state, 
but afterwards should be kept nearly dry. — Jour. Hort. 
Sac, 80. 
Calanthe Vestita. Shaggy Calanthe. A large 
silver medal was awarded by the Horticultural Society, 
in November last, to Messrs. Veitch and Son, for a fine 
specimen of this beautiful species of Calanthe. It was 
imported from Moulmein, and bears large spikes of 
white flowers, stained in their centre with crimson. 
Among the many orchids which have been imported of 
late years to our gardens, this is one of the most hand- 
some and striking. — Jour. Hort. Soc, vol. iv., 8. 
ExAcuM Zeylanicum. Ceylon Exacum. A beau- 
tiful annual, raised from Ceylon seeds by Mr. Moore, of 
the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin, where it pro- 
duced its purplish-blue flowers in September, 1848. It 
is really a striking plant ; and may be increased by 
seeds, which should be sown early in the spring in pots 
filled with sandy peat soil, and as they are very small 
they require no covering of earth, but merely that the 
mould should be gently pressed down. The pot should 
be pla(;ed near the glass in a damp corner of the stove, 
or a pan of water should be set under them, as it is 
very necessary that the mould in the pot should be 
kept in a moist state, without having occasion to 
sprinkle water over the surface ; for if that is done, the 
small germinating seeds are disturbed. When the 
young plants are sufficiently strong, pot off into loose 
turfy soil with good drainage. — Bot. Mag., 4423. 
LoASA picTA. Painted-flowered Loam. An ex- 
tremely pretty species of Loasa, native of Chacapoyas in 
the Andes, where it was detected by Mr. William Lobb, 
and seeds were raised by Messrs. Veitch and Sons at 
their nursery, Exeter. There is every reason to believe 
it will prove a half-hardy annual, well suited for bedding 
out in the summer, when its graceful and lively flowers, 
yellow and white, with a red eye, cannot fail to prove 
attractive. The seeds should be sown in April, in a 
frame or pit, and by the end of May, it will be safe to 
turn it out into the flower borders. — Bot. Mag., 4428. 
LisiANTHus puLCHER. Pretty Lisiantlius. This is 
one of the most beautiful of the genus. It was dis- 
covered by Mr. Purdie, during his botanical expedition 
to New Granada, growing in Monte del Moro. The 
plants in their young state appear to be rather delicate. 
It is said by Mr. Purdie to form a suff"ruticose shrub, 
from five to seven feet high, and two or three feet in 
diameter, growing at an elevation of between 7,000 to 
8,000 feet on shelly limestone rocks, which are covered 
with a thin stratum of peaty soil of a dry nature. It 
may, perhaps, do the best kept in a close greenhouse, 
potted in loose peat soil, well drained, and with a few 
pieces of limestone mixed through the soil. — Bot. Mag., 
4424. 
MiLTONIA SPECTABILIS PURPUREO-VIOLACEA. Purple- 
violet Miltonia. See p. 77. 
MiLTONIA Karwinskii. Count KarioinsM^s Mil- 
tonia. This is the Cyrtochilum Karwinskii of the 
Bot. Reg. t. 1992; and the Oncidium Karwinskii of 
the Sertum OrcJiidaceum, t. 25. This beautiful plant 
was received by the Horticultural Society from Mr. 
Hartweg, and is supposed to have been collected at 
Oaxaca, in 1839. The flower-scape is nearly three 
feet long ; stifi^, and almost upright ; being covered for 
three parts of its length, at intervals of an inch and a 
half, with large gay white, purple, yellow, and brown 
flowers, fully two inches and a half in diameter. The 
sepals and petals are bi'ight yellow, barred and spotted 
with brown ; the tip is white at the point, deep violet 
at the base, and blush in the middle space. The column 
is nearly white, and adorned by two serrated hatchet- 
shaped wings. It requires to be treated like an Oncidium, 
and to be grown in rather a cool temperature, in pots 
tilled with fibry peat, and half-decayed leaves, well 
drained. — Jour. Hort. Soc, vol. iv., 83. 
Polygonum vacciniifolium. Vaccinium-leaved 
Polygonum. Raised from seeds received by the 
Horticultural Society from Captain W. Munro, from 
Northern India. It forms a trailing plant, with half- 
shrubby stems, and is an extremely pretty species, 
growing freely in any good well-drained loamy soil, and 
is easily increased by cuttings. Its spikes of deep rose- 
coloured flowers are a great decoration during autumn 
to rock-work, as they continue to retain their gay 
colours until the frost changes them to a warm brown. — 
Jour. Hort. Soc, vol. iv., 80. 
SWAMMERDAMIA ANTENNARIA. A Small, COmpaCt, 
evergreen bush, found wild in Van Diemen's Land, on 
the sides of Mount Wellington. It is hardy, and grows 
freely in any common garden soil, being readily increased 
by cuttings planted in the usual way. The flower- 
hcads are small, white, and collected in little lateral 
corymbose panicles. — Jou/i\ Hort. Soc, vol. iv., 77. 
