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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS, IN FLOWER, IN THE DIFFERENT SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Burlingtonia rigida. This remarkable species is in flower in the Gardens of the Horticultural 
Society, Chiswick. It is well known from its very singular habit, and remarkable for the large and 
delicate violet blossoms so beautifully reticulated. A delicious odour is also another of its 
attractions. 
Daphne Fortuni. We may again notice this very useful plant as being in good flower in the 
Gardens of the Horticultm\al Society, particularly as it yields a large amount of bloom at this 
season in a slight degree of heat. Its profusion of delicate lilac blossoms will always make it a 
great favourite, especially as it proves quite hardy. 
Epidendrum AURANTiACUM. Ill the above-named Gardens this species is flowering abundantly, 
and very rarely to be met with in so fine a condition. It is now well known by its rich orange 
flowers produced in dense clusters above the dark-green foliage. As seen in the perfection of this 
specimen there is scarcely another of its species so striking in appearance. It was introduced by 
Mr. Hartweg to the Gardens of the Society. 
Erica aristata. In the nursery of Messrs. Fairbairn, Clapham Rise, we saw a splendid 
specimen in perfection of this the finest of the Heath tribe. The plant was about two feet high, 
and rather more in diameter, completely covered with blossoms. In specimens of this kind 
of Heath, we should think a less number of supports would make the plant less formal and be more 
attractive, than when they appear like a round ball, as in this otherwise splendid specimen. 
Lcelia elava. Mr. Blandy, of Reading, forwarded for exhibition to the rooms of the Horti- 
cultural Society, Regent Street, a very well-flowered specimen of the above. It has very bright 
yellow blossoms, produced at the top of an erect stem in a close mass. It is very pretty and lively 
in colour, not by any means a difficult species to cultivate, and worthy a place in every collection. 
Miltonia cuneata. This species was forwarded by the above-named gentleman, in good 
condition, for exhibition in Regent Street. It is not a very showy species, having sepals and petals 
narrow and short, spotted with very dark-brown on a pale-greenish ground. The labellum is a 
creamy-white colour. The flowers are produced rather scantily on a scape more than three feet 
in length. 
Odontoglossum pulchellum. a well-grown and profusely-flowered specimen of the above 
was forwarded to the Rooms of the Horticultural Society, Regent Street, for exhibition, by 
Mr. Warner. This species is easily cultivated, producing bloom very freely, rivalling the Lily of 
the Valley in the purity of its white flower and delicious fragrance. It ought to be in every 
collection, as it is almost always in flower. 
Phaius, spe. NOV. An introduction from Java by the collector of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, 
Exeter, not very showy, as in the present specimen it has but three flowers upon an upright 
stem about a foot long. The sepals and petals are brownish, very pale, the lip white, yellowish in 
the tubular part ; under the throat a broad blotch of pale lilac is seen. The foliage is broad, and 
about eighteen inches long. 
SiPHocAMPYLUS MACROSTOMA. Messrs. Veitcli and Son sent with the above to the Horticultural 
Rooms, Regent Street, a splendid specimen of the dark variety of S. macrostoma ; the variety 
consists in the leaves being stained with crimson underneath, and the flowers assume a deeper 
colour. The specimen was about four feet high, with several stems and branches terminating in 
large and compact masses of intense crimson-scarlet flowers. The plant had evidently been 
drawn up considerably in heat, but even with this disadvantage, it is a most useful plant for winter 
cultivation, lasting a long time in bloom. Messrs. Veitch received it from the Royal Gardens at 
Kew as a seedliug species, and one of Purdie’s introducing there. We likewise saw a very nice 
specimen about two feet high, in good flower, in the nursery of Messrs. Rollissons, Tooting, where 
we found 
SiPHocAMPYLus, SPE. NOV., sliowiug bloom ; and from the beauty of its colour we augur very 
