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Maxilla'ria Wa'rreana. « This is a very distinct and very lovely species of Maxillaria, 
L detected, as it would appear, in Brazil ; at least it was, according to Mr. Loddiges, cultivated 
Lre by Mr. Warre, after whom it is named. Our plants were sent from St. Martha, New 
enada, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, and flowered in the Royal Gardens, and at Syon, in August, 
45. The delicate and almost snowy, or yellow-white of the ground of the flowers is beautifully 
itrasted with the rich purple of the inside of the lip.” Bot. Mag., 4235. 
This is Warrea tricolor of Dr. Lindley. 
Odontoglo'ssum membrana'ceum. “ This delicious species,” writing of it, Dr. Lindley 
^s, (i for so it deserves to be called, on account of its agreeable odour and delicate flowers 
s delicious species is quite like 0. Cervantesii, figured in this work at p. 36, of the 
lume for last year, in general appearance, and may possibly be a mere variety of it. It differs, 
wever, in the following respects : — Its flowers are white, and rather larger, and the lip is spotted 
the base ; its petals are much blunter ; its lip is very deeply heart-shaped, and quite rounded at 
3 point ; the two front teeth of the lip are shorter, and less hairy ; and the concavity at the 
se of the lip has a much smaller central tubercle. In other respects the two plants may be 
asidered as berng identical. They are both Mexican, and may be regarded as among the finest 
scies of that country.” Bot. Reg., 34. 
PrTmula involucra'ta. “ This is a neat and very desirable sweet-scented little hardy alpine 
irennial, which grows freely in a soil composed of sandy loam and leaf- mould. It attains a 
ight of six inches, flowers from March to May, and sometimes a second time during the 
owing season.” When in a state of dormancy, it should be preserved comparatively dry, to 
event the chance of injury from damp. It has recently been “ raised in the garden of the Hor- 
ultural Society, from seeds from the North of India, presented by Captain W4n. Munro, and 
is said to have been found in the neighbourhood of water, 11,500 feet above the sea. Bot. Reg., 31. 
Saxifra'ga thysano'des. ce The confusion that reigns among the Berganian Saxifrages of 
dia has been mentioned at fol. 65 of the volume of this work for 1843. It has, no doubt, arisen 
Dm the inadvertant intermixture of different species under the same name, as is sufficiently 
own by the example before us, which was sent from India as the true S. ciliata. But it cannot 
i that, because its inflorescence is compact and nearly simple, its leaves hirsute on both sides, 
id its calyx perfectly smooth. It is in reality a plant of which dried specimens were distributed 
om the India House, before the return of Dr. Wallich, under the name of S. ligulata. But it 
ffers from S. ligulata in its short petals, more diminutive inflorescence, and hirsute crenated 
a.ves, which are by no means cordate, as those of ligulata always are.’ It is a dwarf, hardy 
irennial, flowering in April. Bot, Reg., 33. 
NEW OR INTERESTING PLANTS EXHIBITED IN LONDON OR ITS SUBURBS, IN FLOWER, 
OR DESERVING NOTICE. 
Achime'nes pa'tens. This long-desired lovely species of a lovely family is in the possession 
' the Horticultural Society, and was in present flower, at their last meeting in Regent Street, 
r. Hartweg met with it at Mexico on his way out to California on another botanical exhibition, 
id despatched it to this country by post. The habit and appearance of the plant is like that 
A. grandiflora, and its flowers bear some resemblance to those of that species, but are unlike 
in having a curious spur, and being of a much finer colour : at least, some varieties are. Theio 
ere two varieties present at the meeting above mentioned, one with larger but paler flowers than 
e other, and with the spur larger and of a different colour to its flower. The variety with smallei 
)wers is much the most superior, its flowers beautiful deep bright purple, with the spur small 
id of the same deep colour. 
Angulo' a spes.— Mr. Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, had in a collection 
Orchidece he exhibited at the recent meeting of the Royal Botanic Society, a very fine membei 
this genus, with somewhat slender long pseudo-bulbs, bearing seven flowers, something in coloui 
id shape like those of Acineta JBumboldti, but much larger, and the colouring in larger spots and 
otches, the lip rather large ; a dull crimson colour ; the flowers supported on strong peduncles 
ne inches to a foot high. No perfect foliage was borne by the plant at the time of its flowering, 
irther than the leaves of the young growth, which were rising in a fine healthy manner. 
dEschyna'nthus pu'lcher. This is a member of a very ornamental genus recently added to the 
tie species we already possess, by the Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, who have imported it from Java. 
