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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
at a sale of Columbian plants in 1842, and flowered in the stove of the Regent’s Park Botanic 
Gardens, in November last. “ It is remarkable in the curious structure of the flowers, and in these ! 
numerous flowers all meeting together, nearly at the same level, so as to form a slightly concave j 
even surface, with the blossoms very compactly arranged, but especially in the centre whilst yet 
in the bud.” The flowers are of a dingy brownish-green colour, and by no means showy. Bot . 
Mag. 4103. 
Odontoglossum pulchellum. “ A most delicate and elegant plant, well deserving the name 
Mr. Bateman has appropriated to it. It is a native of Guatemala, introduced through the 
medium of Mr. Skinner.” The pseudo-bulbs are oblong, and clustered, surmounted by two long 
linear leaves, which vary in length on different pseudo-bulbs. The flower-scape proceeds from 
the base of the pseudo-bulbs, and is usually something longer than the leaves. The flowers are 
arranged in a loose raceme, and, with the exception of the anthers and the crest of the lip, which 
are yellow, the latter spotted with red, they are pure white. Bot. Mag. 4104. 
Siphoca'mpylus lantanifo'lius. Sir William J. Hooker has figured a plant which he con- 
siders as a variety of this species, as described by De Candolle, from specimens collected in 
Caracas by M. Vargas, It was sent to him from Liege, by Mr. MacKoy, and only differs from 
De Candolle’s description in the very indistinct pubescence found on the shoots, leaves, and calyx. 
It is an upright, rather weak- growing shrub, branching freely, and clothed with foliage very 
similar to the other species. The most prominent distinguishing feature is in the arrangement 
of the inflorescence, the flowers being numerous, and disposed in a corymbose raceme. The 
size of its purple corolla is intermediate between S. bicolor and S. betulcefolius , approaching that 
of the latter. The flowers are produced early in spring, and cuttings take root readily. It will 
be a desirable acquisition to the stove. Bot. Mag. 4105. j 
Stenome'sson Hartwe'gii. “ A pretty little bulbous plant, found by Mr. Hartweg at the 
Hacienda del Ixo, on the ascent to Antisana, in the province of Quito, at the height of 11,800 
feet above the sea.” It has gay orange-coloured nodding flowers, growing in pairs “at the 
summit of a scape a foot long.” It flowered in the garden of the Horticultural Society last 
March, and it has also appeared in other collections, having been extensively distributed by the 
Society. It thrives well in the usual admixture of peat, loam, and sand, with abundance of 
water, in the early part of the season, gradually reduced in quantity after the flowers are 
expanded, and wholly withdrawn towards autumn, when the bulbs should be kept perfectly dry 
till they show signs of renewed vegetation. During the growing state, a frame is most suitable, 
and whilst in flower they may be removed to a greenhouse. Several bulbs should be planted in 
a pot, to create any show. Bot. Beg. 42. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL SUBURBAN 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. 
Achime'nes pTcta. Most cultivators are acquainted with the splendid species of Achimenes , I 
which now usually occupy so prominent a position in greenhouses and stoves, and at floral 
exhibitions in the summer season. Another species has been introduced, and recently jj 
distributed by the Horticultural Society of London, which, though inferior to some of the 
species so well known in the size and abundance of its blossoms, is extremely attractive in the | 
peculiar markings of its foliage. It has stout hairy stems, which do not appear to grow more 
than a foot or eighteen inches high, well covered with handsome broadly-cordate leaves, very soft 
and velvety, with an irregular glaucous blotch in the middle, running out on the lateral veins, 
and margined with a dark olive-green colour ; the whole surface, both upper and under, is also 
beset with numerous long soft hairs. Even when destitute of flowers, if the plant be in a healthy 
growing state, the zebra-like markings of the foliage give them a very pleasing appearance. The 
flowers greatly resemble those of A. pedunculata, and fully rival the brightness and glowing 
richness of the blossoms of that species. They issue from the axilla of the leaves, and stand 
prominently clear of the foliage, on long, single-flowered peduncles : the form is tubular, 
gradually widening towards the limb, which spreads flat, and is divided into well-rounded and 
compactly-fitting segments, the lower part yellow, with numerous spots and interrupted lines of 
crimson, and the upper half scarlet-crimson, with much darker spots. Two or three pretty 
