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of the calyx, the green corolla, having its limb spotted with dark purple or blood-colour, and its 
ciliated or fringed margin. It has recently been introduced to our own stoves by Mr. Veitch, 
through his collector, Mr. William Lobb, from Java. It inhabits the mountains. It is a free and, 
abundant flowerer, and blossoms in March, and loves heat and moisture.” Bot. Mag., 4236. 
^ -Bouva'rdia fla'va. “The little greenhouse plant now figured,” Dr. Lindley observes, “was 
introduced into this country by M. Van Houtte, Nurseryman, Ghent, and is mentioned in his 
Hortus as having been published by M. Decaisne, in the Flora. It appears to be very distinct 
from all the species previously described, and is, we presume, a native of Mexico. That, however, 
is not stated by the anonymous author of the ‘ Hortus Van Houtteanus ; ’ in which work the 
leaves are said to be speckled with purple, a circumstance that has not come under our observation. 
The flowers, however, are a clear, pure yellow, and droop gracefully from their slender purple 
“ footstalks.” Bot. Reg., 32. 
Cypripe'dium barba'tum. “ It is with no small reluctance,” states Sir William Hooker, “ that 
I represent this as a species distinct from Cypripedium venustum, Wall, in Bot. Mag. t. 2129, and 
Exot. FI. t. 35, or even from the C. purpuratum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1991, the only distinguishing 
character being in the ‘purple hairy shining warts which border the upper edge of the petals ’ in 
our present plant. But assuredly such warts, in a greater or less degree, do exist on those of 
C. venustum, though they are obsolete in C. purpuratum. Probably the different localities were 
considered to strengthen the idea of specific difference, the C. venustum inhabiting the north of 
India, about Nepal, and the two others the Malayan Islands : but the mountains of tropical India 
are now well known to produce similar species to those of the less elevated regions of the north, 
and such appears to be the case in the present instance. The colour of the lip in C. barbatum is 
different from that of C. venustum ; but in two beautiful flowering specimens sent to us by our 
friend Mr. Veitch, from Java (from which our figure was taken), one exhibited the dark purple 
of C. barbatum, the other the pale colour of C. venustum. The leaves, in like manner, vary in 
intensity of colour and marking, and in the absence or presence of brown dots on the under side of 
the foliage.” C. Javanicum is a synonyme. Bot Mag., 4234. [The two Cypripediums above 
referred to are those noticed at page 71 of our present volume.] 
| Cirrhope'talum thoua'rsii. Epidendrum umbellatum, Bolbophyllum longiflorum, Zygoglossum 
umbellatum, Cymbidium umbellatum. “For the illustration of this exceedingly curious Orchideous 
plant,” writes Sir W. Hooker, “ we are indebted to Dr. Lindley, who observes that the species 
inhabits the Society Islands, Java, the Isles of France and Madagascar, and Manilla. It 
requires a little dissection, and the removal of the long lateral sepals, to distinguish the beauty and 
the elegant marking of its flower. The generic name was given by Dr. Lindley, from the pre- 
vailing tawny colour of the blossoms, as exhibited chiefly in the sepals : Kippos, tawny, and tt ztolKov. 
The plant requires heat and moisture to bring it to perfection, and it then seems to flower at 
various seasons of the year. Our figure was made at the Royal Gardens, in December, 1845.’’ 
Bot. Mag., 4237. 
Callia'ndra Ha'rrisii. “ A very handsome stove plant, of straggling habit, but, if supported 
by sticks, easily kept in good form, and highly ornamental, with its copious, rather large leaves, 
and its very handsome crested tufts of flowers, consisting, indeed, almost wholly of stamens, but 
those stamens so long, so numerous, and of so bright a red, as to be highly ornamental. The 
species is a native of Mexico ; it is of easy cultivation, and easily increased by cuttings. It was 
introduced to our stoves by Thos. Harris, Esq., of Kingsbury, whose name it bears. As a genus, 
Calliandra (from nahXos, beauty, and avtfp, 8pb$, the stamen, in allusion to one of its most striking 
characters, the beauty of the stamens,) is dismembered very judiciously by Mr. Bentham, from 
the over-loaded genus, Inga, and includes such as, altogether natives of the American continent, 
resemble Inga in the flowers, and Acacia in the fruit. Sixty species are described by Mr. Ben- 
tham, L.C.” Synonyme, Inga Harrissii. Bot. Mag., 4238. 
Fu'chsia macra'ntha. Writing of this plant, Sir W. J. Hooker says : — “If this be not the 1 
most brilliantly-coloured of Fuchsias, it certainly can boast the largest flowers, and it bears them 
more copiously than any other species. It is moreover quite an undescribed species, first, how- II 
ever, found by Mr. Mathews, climbing on trees in lofty mountains at Andimarca, Peru, (n. 1197 
of Mathews’ Collections,) and it has been long in our Herbarium from that source ; and next by 
Mr. Veitch’s collector, Mr. William Lobb, detected in woods near Chasula, Columbia, at an eleva- 
tion of 5,000 feet above the sea.” Bot. Mag., 4233. 
