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specimens flowered, a short time back, at the Nursery of Mr. Glendinning, of Turnham Green ; 
and another, well-grown, but hardly come to perfection of flowering, was exhibited in the 
Horticultural Rooms, Regent Street, at the last meeting, from the gardens of the Society. It 
will probably be an excellent variety for hybridising. A mule, combining the large attractive 
flowers o£ A. longijiora or A. g randi/lor a with the ample and pleasingly- variegated foliage of 
A. picta, would be an acquisition well worth attempting. Plants may be obtained at most of the 
; metropolitan nurseries. 
[ Angrjs'cum armeni'acum. This species has much to interest those who are curious in 
i examining the more minute members of the vegetable kingdom, though, from the diminutive 
I size of the flowers, it is not a very conspicuous object. It is a caulescent species, with long 
thick roots, and linear leaves obliquely emarginate at the apex, and standing out on opposite 
; sides of the stem, on which they are alternately fixed, sheathing each other at the base. The 
flowers are arranged on short spikes, springing from the axil of almost every leaf, down to the 
foot of the stem ; the sepals, petals, and lip are coloured with fine bright, shining orange-yellow, 
and being all nearly of the same length, and similarly pointed at the extremity, have a pretty 
1 cupped star-like character. Attached to the lip is a long yellowish spur, fully twice the length 
of the petals, and contracted near the junction with the spur. Messrs. Loddiges received plants 
■ of it from Sierra Leone in 1839, and we noticed specimens flowering amongst the extensive 
collection grown at their Nursery, Hackney, in the early part of August. It is most interesting 
when attached to a block of wood, with a little moss about it, and suspended from a pillar or 
the roof. 
i Chelo'ne mexica'num. A tall and handsome species, approximating in character and general 
form to C. barbatum and C. centrantliifolium , but essentially distinct from both. The flowers 
are of a brighter and deeper scarlet, and something larger than either of the species alluded to. 
There are a few long scattered hairs on the lower lip, at the throat of the tube, whilst, in the 
flowers of C. barbatum , the beard is more dense, and those of the other species are altogether 
destitute of hairs. Both these species also differ from the present in the form of the leaves. It 
has been in the country about two years, and is sufficiently hardy to stand the winter without 
protection in a dry border. Fine plants have been flowering in the Nursery of Messrs. 
Henderson, at Pine- apple Place, for the last three months. It grows four or five feet high, the 
whole, with the exception of about a foot or eighteen inches at bottom, being set round with 
flowers. 
Compare^txta falca'ta. Those who are acquainted with C. rosea will know the scantiness of 
its roots, the natural debility of its growth, and the consequent difficulty of managing it, so as 
to obtain flowers. Combined with all the elegance for which that lovely species is so eminent, 
the present has a much more luxuriant habit. The leaves are broader, larger, and more 
numerous, a sure consequence of the greater abundance of strong healthy roots. It has long 
drooping racemes of thinly-scattered elegant flowers of a rich rosy purple colour, the lip 
reticulated, with veins of a slightly deeper shade. The resemblance of the species to C. rosea is 
so close, that it might easily be mistaken for a well -cultivated specimen. It should be carefully 
i attached to a small block of wood, the roots protected with a thin layer of moss. Too much 
heat seems to be inimical to the success of plants of this genus. In Messrs. Loddiges 5 Nursery, 
where we observed a beautiful specimen of C. falcata in flower two or three weeks ago, they are 
kept in a cool house along with Cattleyas, &c. As an ornament to the drawing-room, few plants 
are more interesting. It was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, from the Riv. Polochic, in 1842. 
Dendro'btum se'cundum, var. — In August 1843, the Horticultural Society received several 
specimens of a variety of D. secundum from their collector, Mr. Fortune, who met with it shortly 
after his first arrival in China. One of these specimens is now flowering in the Society’s 
collection at Chiswick. The flowers are borne in racemes issuing from the nodular rings near 
the top of the stem, and are very closely aggregated, all the flowers turning to the upper side of 
the raceme. From the original species, received from Sumatra, it differs in the intensely rich 
rosy purple shade of the flowers. Though not so gaudy as some of the splendid large-flowering 
species, it is a very neat and interesting species, and does not require so much heat as some 
of them. 
Epide'ndrum.— A splendid species, decidedly one of the finest and most graceful of its class, 
