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splendens , Rondeletia odorata , and a vast quantity of other exotics, both stove and 
greenhouse. 
Let it not be thought we give these as even the most striking examples. They 
are selected at random ; and we may affirm that there are few plants of a like 
character which might not be rendered particularly interesting by the treatment 
we have described. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR DECEMBER, JANUARY, AND FEBRUARY. 
A'nia bico'rnis. The Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall, near Manchester, furnished 
specimens of this terrestrial Orchidaceous plant, which he received from Ceylon, and flowered in 
March, 1842. “It belongs to a little group of the Epidendrous section, of which Bletia is the 
type ; and is nearly allied to A. latifolia, a Sylhet plant, at present only known from dried 
specimens : from that it differs in having much smaller flowers and leaves, an entirely different 
labellum, and a two-celled anther — that of A. latifolia being eight-celled. In the latter circum- 
stance, indeed, it corresponds with the neighbouring genus, Cytheris, whose distinctive character 
is, therefore, not to be taken from the cells of the anthers, but from its resupinate flowers, and 
truly calcarate labellum. In Ania, the labellum, if it appears to have a spur, as in A. angusti- 
folia, owes that appearance to the extension of the foot of the column. At first sight, this plant, 
when in flower, resembles a starved specimen of Eulophia macrostachya.” Bot. Reg. 8. 
Ce'reus exte'nsus. “ This has long been cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, 
but had never flowered there, nor was its native country known to any one, till, in August, 1843, 
J . Gray, Esq., of Greenock, sent the splendid specimen represented, taken from a plant he had 
received from Trinidad ; thus, at the same time, establishing its native country, and giving the 
opportunity of making so fine a blossom known to the botanical world by a good figure. How 
needful such figures are, is but too apparent from the confusion of synonymes, in cases where we 
have only recourse left to descriptions. Professor De Candolle, who takes up this species from 
the Prince de Salm Dyck’s letter, doubts if it be not a variety of his previous species, C. 
coccineus ; but the C. coccineus of De Candolle, strange to say, is nevertheless by Pfeiffer made 
a variety of the setaceus of Salm Dyck ; while the C. coccineus of Salm Dyck is placed in a 
different division, and retained as quite a distinct species by Pfeiffer. This seems to be a very 
shy-flowering species ; and, if we consider the size and colour of the blossoms, one of the hand- 
somest of this remarkable genus.” It is described as a creeping, and probably a climbing 
species, with very long and comparatively slender joints, which have little wiry roots proceeding 
from them. The corolla is very large, with the “tube green, moderately long, cylindrical, 
swollen below, beset with rather distant scales, which are large, triangular, or ovate, greenish- 
yellow, tipped and margined with red, then gradually become larger upwards and longer, 
insensibly passing into the sepals, and then again almost as insensibly become the oblongo- 
obovate, acute, rose-coloured petals.” It is a good deal like that of C. grandiflorus , except in 
colour. Bot. Mag. 4066. 
Cri'num varia'bile, var. ro'seum. “This beautiful bulb flowered in April last, with J. H. 
Slater, Esq., of Newick Park, near Uckfield. Its leaves are very long, and its gay rosy flowers 
most agreeably scented. Upon showing the drawing to the Dean of Manchester, the learned 
investigator of this difficult genus, he suggested the probability of its being either a variety of 
Crinum variabile, or a mule from C. capense, of which the gardens now contain so many. A 
reference to the published figures of the former induces us to regard it as one of its varieties, 
with which it agrees in its bright green very long leaves, and comparatively short scape.” The 
following is Mr. Herbert’s memorandum, in his work, concerning C. variabile. “This is the 
