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MISCELLANEOUS. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
New, Rare, and Interesting Plants, in Flower 
IN TELE DIFFERENT SUBURBAN NURSERIES AND GAR- 
DENS. Aspasia epidendroides. In the gardens of 
the Horticultural Society at Chiswick we found 
in good flower this charming 
species, and though not pos- 
sessing any attractive colour 
in the flower, yet the highly 
aromatic odour which the flower 
emits, renders it one of those 
plants the Orchideous House or 
the stove should never he with- 
out. This species is the more 
valuable, blooming as it does 
when so few scented flowers are 
to be met with. 
Corro&a var. brilliant and 
delicata. Two handsome little 
specimens of the above varieties 
we remarked lately in Messrs. 
Henderson’s nursery, Edgeware 
Road, laden with bloom, the 
first one really deserves the name 
“brilliant,” being a peculiarly 
bright carmine colour, with a 
neat habit, and foliage a bright 
glossy green. The second ( deli- 
cata ) is equally praiseworthy for the profusion of its 
bloom, the colour of which is a pale rose tint. Both 
the varieties were raised some two or three years 
ago by Mr. Gaines, nurseryman, Battersea; they are 
certainly the very best varieties in cultivation. 
Cyanotis axillaris. In October last in the stove 
of Messrs. Henderson, we saw this pretty species 
flowering abundantly. The bright coerulean blue 
of the flowers and feathered filaments of the 
stamen, enriched by the golden hue of the anther, 
make the plant deserving a place in every stove. 
The plant may be produced of almost any size, and, 
will yield a liberal amount of bloom of a colour 
so much in request in the stove or green-house. 
Disa Grandidora. A native of the mountains 
of Cabul, near Cape Town, where it grows in a wild 
state. At present it is rarely met with in our 
gardens, owing, we suppose, to some difficulty, 
that gardeners have not yet discovered, respecting 
its management, else it is one of the most charm- 
ing plants for colour ever seen. The flowers are 
large and a bright crimson, verging upon scarlet, 
yellow in the centre, very attractive in colour. It 
was flowering a short time ago in Messrs. Yeitch’s 
collection at Exeter, where we noticed a fine 
specimen of 
Fuchsia serratifolia, in a No. 1 pot, in most 
gorgeous condition of bloom. We have heard 
complaints repeatedly from parties that they could 
not grow fine specimens of this (especially) and 
several other of the species, however, Messrs. Y. 
seem to have met with no difficulty in forming 
specimens truly gigantic, and laden with their 
characteristic blossoms. 
Hoya bella. The accompanying vignette repre- 
sents the manner in which this little gem appears 
to the best advantage. It is grown in a basket 
suspended from the rafters ; you have then a full 
view of its crystallised flowers from beneath the 
foliage. The species appears to bloom most freely, 
has a graceful habit, with neat foliage of a good 
rich green colour. We noticed it in the nursery 
of Messrs. Yeitch and Son, Exeter, in September 
last, where it had been flowering for two or three 
months. It was introduced there by Mr. Thomas 
Lobb, from the Taung Kola mountain, Moulmein. 
As a plant for the particular gratification of small 
as well as large cultivators, we cannot point to 
one species more worthy a place in every collection. 
It possesses in addition to its other beauties, that 
of being delightfully fragrant. 
Ixora alba. This pure white species of Ixora 
we noticed flowering in the nursery of the above- 
named gentleman. It has globular masses of 
pure white flowers, rendered somewhat more 
attractive by large yellow anthers. This species 
is chiefly attractive by departing from the very 
general colour of nearly all the known species in 
cultivation. 
Lodia spe. nov. A singular species or most 
probably a variety of L. autumnalis is now in 
bloom in the nursery of the Messrs. Henderson. 
The flower is self-coloured, except that a dash of 
a deeper hue runs down the centre of the sepals 
and petals ; the colour of the latter and the labellum 
is a pale rose. The flower in size is much like 
L. autumnalis, but more compact, the petals being 
broader and labellum shorter than that flower; 
the habit similar though smaller. It makes rather 
a pretty variety in point of colour with L. autum- 
nalis. 
Lycaste Skinner ii. Among the many varieties 
