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106 FL0R1CULTUEAL NOTICES. 
of Orchids , at the last Chiswick show, a member of this genus, in general character resembling 
D. aduncum, with broad blunt leaves, and short racemes of flowers, of very light texture, in colon 
French white tinged with pink, with very broken-margined petals, and a much undulated lip 
broadest at the apex. 
Evol/vulus ceeru'leus, and furpu' ro-c^eru' leus. — Mr. Carton, gardener to His Grace th< 
Duke of Northumberland, at Sion, sent to the Regent Street Rooms of the Horticultural Society 
at a recent meeting there, each of the above plants, in bloom ; they are dwarf growing, witl 
slender branches, and very small leaves. The colour of their pretty flowers is what their name 
indicate, and they are borne along the upper part of the branches singly, or on short shoots 
three or four, or more, in a cluster. 
Epide'ndrum. — In the collection of Orchids already referred to, Mr. Mylam had a species o: 
this genus, with pseudo-bulbs and leaves similar to those of E. macrochilmn, and bearing fine 
panicles of flowers, whose sepals are linear, whitish, with somewhat linear-lanceolate petals, of s 
similar colour, and an oblong lip, much crumpled and broken up at the margin, blotched and 
spotted with pale purple, but most strongly so at the base. 
Galea'ndra. — In one of the stoves at the Hackney Nursery, a species of the above genus with 
flowers somewhat intermediate between those of O. Devoniana and G. Baueri has been in bloom, 
It has slender pseudo-bulbous stems, which are thickest in the middle, and have graceful, long, 
narrow, lanceolate foliage. The flowers are borne in a similar manner to those of the species 
mentioned, and their sepals and petals are like those of G. Baueri , but the labellum is large, and 
forms a large, rather flat tube, which terminates abruptly, and then sends out its spur. The 
prevailing colour of the labellum is brownish- white, with a blotch of brownish -purple at its throat. 
Ixo'ra. — A new species of this fine genus was exhibited at the late Chiswick Show, by the! 
Messrs. Veitch. It has broadly-lanceolate, opposite, pale green leaves, and produces its flowers at 
their axils, and terminally, very freely, in semi-globular corymbs. The colour of the individual 
flowers varies in a manner which renders the whole very lively. The young, just expanding ones, 
wear a golden hue, while those which are perfect, and which constitute the majority, are a creamy- 
rose colour, and those fading are stained with pink. It is a highly ornamental plant, and is an 
importation of the above gentlemen, through their collector, Mr. W. Lobb. 
OncTdium. — The Messrs. Rollisson have flowered a new and delightful member of this genus. 
It is a Brazilian species, and has rather small oval pseudo-bulbs, and short oblong sanguineous 
leaves ; a flower-scape rising eight or ten inches, with a raceme of six or seven flowers on its 
upper portion. The flowers are large, have oval sepals and nearly circular petals, the prevailing- 
colour of both being light brown. The lip is large and very beautiful, approaching a semicircular 
form, with black-red markings at its base, the ground colour deep yellow. Parallel with its outer 
edge is a broad lacing of pale brown, which renders it very striking and novel. The plant 
blooming is very small, so that it may be expected to prove quite a free flowerer ; a considerable! 
addition to its other merits. 
StylTdium sca'ndens. — Messrs. Low, of Upper Clapton, sent to a recent meeting of the 
Horticultural Society, in Regent Street, a species of Stylidium, which Dr. Lindley considered 
scandens. The plant was about a foot high, with an erect stem, bearing numerous whorls of long, 
linear leaves, which curl up at their apex, and a small panicle of bright rose-coloured flowers, 
immediately beneath which a new growth of several shoots had commenced, thereby indicating its 
climbing character. 
Tore'nia. — At the Nursery of the last-mentioned gentlemen, a species of Torenia, with cordate, 
petiolate, serrated, opposite leaves, and flowers which are borne at their axils, similar in shape to 
those of T. asiatica , but different in colour, has recently flowered. The flowers have a dark tube, 
and a four-cleft spreading limb, of a blue-lilac colour. 
