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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
liypochil. Its flowers are deliciously scented, and their bright golden colour produces a veryri 
effect. At first sight it might be taken for a mere variety of S. oculata, but Messrs. Loddig 
long since pointed cut the shortness of its ovary as a decisive mark of distinction. The effect j 
this shortness is to make the inflorescence of S. Bucephalus very narrow, while in S. oculata^ 
is broad and straggling. The species is a native of the woods of Paccha, a small village in t 
Andes, on the ascent from Guayaquil to Loxa, at an elevation of 6000 feet above the level of 
sea, where it was found by Mr. Hartweg. It first flowered in the garden of the Horticultu: 
Society in August, 1843. Its stem is spotted as well as its blossoms.”— So<. Reg., 24. 
Wa'rrea cya'nea. The genus Warrea was established by Dr. Lindley in 1843, upon tl 
old Maxillaria Warreana. Since then, two new and quite distinct species (of which this is on 
have been added to it. “ In the beginning of 1844 this beautiful species blossomed wi 
Messrs. Loddiges, and a few months since another ( W. hidentata) appeared in the collection . 
Mr. Rucker. Both the latter are from the Spanish Main, and it is not improbable that othi; 
may lurk in the unexamined forests of that vast region. Warrea cyanea is remarkable for I 
intense porcelain-blue colour of its lip, to which it is not easy to find a parallel in the order; ^ 
pure blue is scarcely known among Orchids. The plant has quite the habit of Warrea tricoU 
but is very much smaller in all its parts. Its most distinctive character is found in the forini 
its lip, which has a distinct point, and five ribs, not three, near the base. Messrs. Loddiij 
imported it from Colombia, and it is No. 860 of their last catalogue. Being a terrestrial specie t 
requires treatment very similar to Phaius maculatusP [Not the least recommendatw 
property of this plant is the long time during which it continues to send out successio,jl 
racemes of flowers. We observed it flowering during the spring and summer months of 1844 it 
Messrs. Rollisson’s nursery. Tooting, under the name of Warrea coerulea.']—Bot. Reg., 28. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS RECENTLY FLOWERED IN THE PRINCIPAL METROPOLITJ 
NURSERIES AND GARDENS. !j 
Ble'tia catenula'ta. — This is the species upon which the genus Bletia was first establisljjl 
by Ruiz and Pavon, although it has only very lately appeared in this country, and is, we belief, 
at the present time only in the hands of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Mount Radford Nurscjf, 
Exeter, who introduced it through their collector, Mr. William Lobb. It was discovered by tit 
successful collector, occupying dry sandy situations upon the hills near Muna, in Peru. ;jl 
specimen has recently flowered, and was exhibited at the rooms of the Horticultural Societya 
Regent Street, in the beginning of the month. It is apparently similar in habit to the iij\r 
common B.florida. The flower-stem rises erectly nearly a foot and a half ; the blossoms 
are loosely arranged on the upper half, are large, and of a fine purple colour. Like the otjj 
species, it will require to be grown in a pot. |t 
Gesne'ra macula'ta. a very showy variety, growing about two feet high, and terminal^ 
in immense clusters of purple flowers, spotted with white at the throat, about the size and shje 
of those in G. Coopern. It sprung from seed of G. Douglasii, fertilized with some of the sca t 
flowering kinds from Brazil, and is now blooming in Messrs. Henderson’s nursery, Pine-arie 
This plant has at length flowered in the HorticuMl 
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Place. 
Habrotha'mnus fascicula'tus. 
Society’s garden at Chiswick, and proves to be really a very fine thing. The tubular flowers |e 
of a very rich orange crimson, and appear in clusters at the top of the branches. The specu|n 
in question is little more than a yard high, and has been kept in a greenhouse. By some i|5- 
take, the Cestrum rbseum, a plant very much resembling it in habit and foliage, but inferio||n 
the flowers, has been sold rather extensively for it. I 
Odontoglo’ssum, new species. Two new species have flowered lately in Messrs, Loddijls’ 
extensive collection. One is almost white, and the other has a delicate pinkish purple tint : l|li 
have a circular collection of irregularly-shaped long dark spots in the centre portion ofjjie 
flower. That with the paler ground colour is the larger flower, and has more distinct, aija 
greater number of the transverse streaks in the middle. They are allied to O. Rossii, but|e 
blossoms are considerably larger. i 
