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noble-looking shrub, for it is said to maintain a stature of six feet, and to become one mass of 
blossom. With us in England it does not, however, prove fit for the open ground.” The foliage 
is large, heart-shaped, with five or seven clefts, bluntly serrated on the margin, and somewhat 
hairy. Their outline approximating to that of the Vine, has obtained for the plant the name 
vitifolia. The flowers are collected into large clusters, and have an imposing appearance, 
measuring individually about three and a half inches across. They are very different from those 
of the well-known A. striatum , both in fown and colour, the petals expanding flat and having a 
lilaceous tint. “ It may be grown in a large pot or tub, but where it can be planted out in a 
conservatory bed, it will succeed much better. The soil most suitable is heath-mould, mixed 
with silver sand. Being a greenhouse plant, air should be given at all times when the weather is 
favourable, and it must be exposed as much to the light as possible. It is propagated from 
cuttings in the usual way. The worst of the plant is, that it occupies a great deal of room, and 
therefore can only be grown in large houses, and it is, like all its family, a favourite resort of the 
red-spider. When, however, the first is of no consequence, and the second can be kept down, it is 
well worth growing ; for we have few plants whose flowers form such broad gay masses.” 
Bot. Reg. 57. 
Angulo' a uniflo'ra. Concerning this beautiful and deliciously-scented species, Dr. Lindley 
writes as follows : — ei We some time since announced the appearance in this country of a new 
species of the long-lost genus Anguloa, concerning which so many mistakes have been made. We 
are now able, by the kindness of Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, to publish the very Anguloa 
uniflora itself, which he was so fortunate as to flower in April last. We believe he received it 
among Linden’s collection in Columbia ; according to Ruiz and Pavon, it is found in precipitous 
places about Muna and Chincao in Peru, and profusely in the woods of Tarma, where it is called 
Carpales. It is a sweet-scented plant, with large white flowers, slightly tinged with yellow, and 
the whole habit of a Lycaste to which genus this approaches very nearly.” The genus com- 
memorates Don Francisco de Angulo, Director-General of the Peruvian mines, and greatly 
attached to botanical pursuits. (This is the species noticed from Mr. Rucker’s, in our August 
Number, p. 166). Bot. Reg ., 60. 
An(ectochi'lus seta'ceus. “ One of the most exquisitely beautiful of all plants in the hue 
and marking of its leaves, not to be imitated by art. Their colour is of a rich velvety green, 
tinged with copper, and over that appears to be laid an exquisite golden net-work ; the underside is 
quite different, of a reddish tinge, with obscure yellow veins, but all that is most beautiful is 
exposed to view. It is a native of damp, shady woods in Ceylon, Amboyna, and Java, and 
probably of the Indian Islands generally.” Sir W. J. Hooker thinks there can be no doubt 
that this species is synonymous with the Chrysobaphus Roxburgii of Wallich, from Sylhet and 
Nepal. Folium petiolatum is also given as the name adopted by Rumphius in the et Herbarium 
Amboinensis.” Two distinct varieties are cultivated in gardens ; one having the whole surface of 
the leaf as described above, and the other, which is certainly the less beautiful of the two, having 
a dash through the centre of a much lighter and greener colour, and the golden net-work less 
strongly defined. In habit they bear a great resemblance to the old Goodyera discolor , having a 
creeping stem, and the leaves wholly confined to the lower part of the plant. The flower-stem 
rises about a span high, bearing five or six flowers in a spike at the top, which, though remark- 
able in their structure, are inferior in point of attractiveness to the foliage. The sepals are of a 
green hue, tinged with red, and the petals white, tipped with the same colour. The lip is the most 
interesting portion, being large and pure white, with a fringe of white hairs at the margin, and a 
curious conical pouch at the base. The generic name is supposed to allude to the spreading of 
the lip, and to be derived from the Greek, anoictos, open, and cheilos , a lip. It requires a 
greater uniformity in the moisture of the surrounding atmosphere, than the generality even of 
Orchidaceee — a state which is mostly maintained by covering the surface of the soil with growing 
hypnum moss, and inclosing it in a bell-glass. Bot. Mag. 4123. 
Aristolo'chia ornithoce'phala. “ There are few plants which present more striking pecu- 
liarities of form and structure in their blossoms than the various individuals of the genus to 
which the present plant belongs. Ninety-two species are enumerated by Steudel, in the new 
edition of his valuable (e Nomenclateur Botanicus.” Amongst them is a peculiar group, inhabiting 
Brazil, which Martius characterizes as having flowers of a remarkably large size, variegated with 
