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ssues, bearing four or five large handsome flowers, with rose-coloured sepals and petals, and a 
ip remarkable for its deep purple-red colour, becoming paler at the margin of the side-lobes, and 
ellowish on the disk. Bot. Mag. 4083 . 
! Clerode'ndron infortuna'tum. This plant “ was sent from Ceylon to his Grace the Duke of 
Northumberland, by Mr. Nightingale, and flowered at Syon, in August, 1843.” “ The true 
C haracters of the species seem to lie in its very large flowers, which are clustered in little heads 
j,t the end of the principal branches of inflorescence, and in the large, leafy, coloured calyx, 
/hich is half split into five segments. It is a truly splendid species, and will be a great addition 
0 a botanical collection, as it is a very free-growing plant.” It is a shrubby plant, requiring to 
>e grown in a moist stove. Bot. Reg. 19. 
Di'sa grandiflo'ra. “ Of all described terrestrial Orchidacese, this is unquestionably the 
dost beautiful, the ‘ well-known pride of the Table Mountain,’ where Mr. Harvey assures us that 
very stream is literally bordered with it in the month of March ” The stems of the specimens 
gured in “ Lindley’s Sertum Orchidaceum ” were two feet and a half high, and the flowers 
ve inches and a half across. Those which flowered in the greenhouse at Kew last August were 
hort of this size. “ The tubers had recently been imported, and they may probably never flower 
j second time ; for it is well known that no plants are more difficult to cultivate for a succession 
f years than terrestrial Orchidacese. In the present instance, it would be scarcely possible to 
nitate the native soil and climate.” “ They grow,” says Sir John Herschel, “ where the 
smperature is occasionally as low as 31°, and also occasionally as high as 96°. The habit is on 
ie margin of pools of standing water, the drainage of the boggy slopes of the mountains, where 
ie roots are immersed. These are dry, or nearly so, in summer. In such localities the plant 
i, of course, frequently involved in the dense mists of the clouds, which, even in the hottest 
lonths, often cover its habitation for a week or a fortnight uninterruptedly.” The most showy 
mature of this truly magnificent flower is the large scarlet sepals, the uppermost of which is 
elmet-shaped, copiously spotted with dark crimson, and having a yellow margin. The lip and 
stals are comparatively small. The plant was first introduced to this country about twenty 
ears ago ; but, owing to the difficulty of preserving it, it is far from being common. Bot. 
lag. 4073. 
1 E'ria floribu'nda. “Although the flowers of this plant cannot boast of large size and rich 
, flours, they are by no means destitute of beauty. Arranged as they are in long drooping racemes, 
iassy in texture, and delicately touched with crimson, they are among the prettiest of the 
nailer kinds. It is a native of Sincapore, whence it has been received by Messrs. Loddiges.” 
•ot. Reg. 20. 
I Eri'ca jasmtniflo'ra. “ This very handsome heath was obligingly communicated from the 
ceenhouse of the College Botanic Garden at Dublin, under the name of E. inflata. The E. 
fata of Thunberg it certainly is not ; but that name has incorrectly been assigned to the E. 
y.sminifora of Andrews, to which this plant seems decidedly to belong : and, were it not stated 
jiat Roxburgh gives it as an inhabitant of the Cape Colony, I should be disposed to consider it a 
ybrid between E. Irbyana or E. Shannoniana and E Aitoniana. It has the inflated tube of 
e two former, and the large limb approaches to that of the latter.” The flowers are collected 
to heads, consisting generally of from 7 to 10 blooms. These are white, tinged with red or 
ush, and have a very waxy appearance, from the glutinous substance with which they are 
ivered. Bot. Mag. 4074. 
( Nemata'nthus chlorone'ma. Specimens of this plant were gathered in the Organ Moun- 
ts, by Mr. Gardner, and sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they flowered in July, 
143. Between it and N. longipes “the chief distinction lies in the relative length of the 
•duncle and leaves, and of the calyx, segments, and corolla ; and the flowers, it may be 
r marked, are smaller, and the spread of the limb less.” Bot. Mag. 4080. 
I Nelu'mbium ca'spicum. The drawing was taken from a plant in the nursery of Messrs, 
ollisson, of Tooting, in August, 1843. “According to M. De Candolle, all the Nelumbia found 
various parts of Asia are Varieties of one species, and this opinion is generally adopted. It 
, however, difficult to believe that the deep-red Nelumbium of India, with very sharp-pointed 
dais, can be the same with the blunt-petalled white-flowered plant ‘found at the mouth of the 
flga, near Astrachan, Sec., amoDgst reeds, intermixed with Nymplneas and Trapa,’ which, 
