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regard to the present individual, it has been introduced to our gardens by Mr. Low, of Clapton, 
to whom the Botanic Gardens of Kew owe the possession of it, and there it forms a small tree-like 
shrub, six to eight feet high.” According to Mr. Backhouse, it grows to a tree sixteen feet in 
height ; with slender branches, furnished with smooth ovate acuminate leaves, often ciliated at 
the margin. The white flowers are borne in coi’ymbs, and are often produced on very small 
plants, soon after being struck from cuttings. Bot. Mag., 4133. 
Barbace'nia squama'ta. This plant differs from B. tricolor and B. tomentosa, two unintro- 
duced species published by Martius, which it resembles in the colour of the flowers, and general 
size of the plant — “ in the absence of clothing to its leaves, in the form of the flower, and espe- 
cially in the nature of the filament of tlie anther, which is here unusually short and broad, and 
can hardly be termed bifid.” It has a short, dichotomous stem, clothed with the scale-like 
remains of former leaves (from which it obtains the specific name); the perfect leaves vary from 
five to eight or nine inches in length, and grow in tufts at the top. The flower-stalks spring 
from amongst the terminal leaves, and each supports a single six-cleft blossom of an orange-red 
colour. The plants of this genus inhabit mountainous districts, and are usually found in dry 
exposed situations amongst micaceous schist, and on rock of other primeval formations. (See 
Vol. XI., p. 75.) Bot. Mag., 4136. 
Bego'nia rubricau'lis. It is a matter of regret that, of the numerous fine things imported 
to Britain, so many are received without any memoranda of their native countries and the situa- 
tions they occupy in a wild state. This is the case with the present plant, which was received at 
the Birmingham Botanic Garden without name or clue to its origin. The leaves are supported 
on fine red petioles rising directly from the ground, and are of an obliquely ovate form, undu- 
lated, sinuately lobed, and closely serrated and ciliated on the margin, of a full bright green, 
and wrinkled with reticulated veins. The scapes are much longer than the leaves ; paniculately 
branched above, with several large handsome blush-coloured flowers, suffused with a deeper 
tinge. The peduncles and pedicels, as well as the fruit, are of the same deep red which charac- 
terises the petioles and flower-scape ; and the tout ensemble bears a remarkably neat, distinct, 
and enlivening aspect. Bot. Mag., 4131. 
Epide'ndrum di'pus. “ One of those innumerable species inhabiting South American forests 
to the enumeration of which there seems no end. It was imported by Messrs. Loddiges, from 
Brazil, and produced its densely clustered panicles of sweet-scented green, brown, and white 
flowers in January, 1844. In many respects it approaches E. nutans, but its panicle is very much 
more compact, its colour is more that of E. paniculatum, and the form of its lip is different, the 
two terminal lobes being very narrow, and bowed back like the fore legs of the splay-footed 
truffle dogs.” It is a caulescent species with long flaccid and somewhat acuminate foliage? 
and the many-flowered panicles of blossom assume a nodding direction. It belongs to the 
section Spathium, and will be more useful for the delicious sweetness which the flowers exhale, 
than for any showy trait they possess. Bot. Reg., 4. 
E'ria vesti'ta. “ Of the shaggy Erias this is one of the more remarkable, having so much 
the habit of a DendroUum that it was so considered by Dr. Wallich ; for at the time of the 
publication of that indefatigable botanist’s laborious catalogue, it was not known that all the 
species of Dendrobium are hairless, or nearly so. What is not a little singular is, that these 
plants have very frequently tawny or reddish brown hairs, if they have any. The history of the 
production of such a colour would be a good subject for examination by some phyto-chemist. 
The flowers too are reddish brown externally, white inside, and hang down in pendulous spikes, 
which are longer than the leaves. The species is a native of the Indian Archipelago. Dr. 
Wallich’s collectors had it from Sincapore, and Mr. Cuming sent it from Manilla (?) to Messrs. 
Loddiges. It also occurs, in a small flowered state, among Mr. Cuming’s dried plants from 
the Phillipines, marked ‘ Laguna.’” In an ornamental light, the plant is chiefly remarkable for 
its neat and well clothed habit, as the blossoms are not favoured with any very attractive feature. 
It thrives better in a pot or basket than attached to a block of wood, and needs a warm, humid, 
and shaded atmosphere in summer, and the converse treatment in winter. Bot. Reg., 2. 
Gaylussa'cia pse'udo-vacci'nium. a fine Andromeda-\\\ie plant with secund racemes of neat 
and showy globular crimson blossoms, imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Brazil. It is a 
woody stemmed shrub, with smooth elliptical foliage, and altogether constitutes an excellent 
greenhouse plant. Bot. Reg., 62. 
