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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR OCTOBER. 
Ade'nium Hou'nghel. A curious plant from Aden, presented by the Court of Directors of the 
i East India Company to tlie Horticultural Society, in whose garden it flowered last June. “It 
forms one or two fleshy stems, like those of a Plumieria, on the top of a club-footed protuberance, 
and these stems divide sparingly iuto a few dumpy branches, each bearing two or three leaves only. 
Its rate of growth is so slow that half a century is not too great an age to assign to such an indi- 
vidual as that now represented. Its appearance is the more singular, because from its leafless, 
stunted branches there appear many very handsome rose-coloured flowers, bordered with crimson, 
and fully two inches long.” — Bot. Reg., 54. 
/Eschyna'nthus Lobbia'nus. “ Splendid as is the present species of BEschy nanthus,” remarks 
Sir W. Hooker, “ this figure will soon be followed by that of an allied one, BE. pulclier, not less 
, beautiful, and both imported by Mr. Veitch, of the Nursery, Exeter, through the medium of his 
collector, Mr. Thomas [William] Lobb, from Java. They are there probably Epiphytes, therein 
resembling many Orcliideous plants ; and seem to be amongst the most brilliant of the vegetation 
of that fertile country. Like the Orcliideous Epiphytes, too, they seem to be by no means difficult 
of cultivation in a moist stove, and they are assuredly very free flowerers. Of all the species with 
which we are acquainted, however, and there are not a few which we possess in our herbaria, the two 
now alluded to are certainly the most striking, the present especially so, from the strong contrast 
between the purplish-black calyx and the brilliant hue of the corolla.” [A desirable plant, flower- 
ing very freely, and an immense length of time. Noticed at page 165, as an unnamed species.] — 
Bot. Mag., 4261. 
Brassavo'la Digbya'na. u This very singular plant was introduced from Honduras by Mrs. 
M “Donald, and by that lady given to Edward St. Vincent Digby, Esq., with whom it flowered 
last July, at Minterne, in Dorsetshire. Its huge, yelloAvish- white flowers are as sweet as those of 
Aerides odoratum j and the largest measure neaidy three inches in diameter. The neck o ' the 
ovary, which is cuniculate in a remarkable degree, is full four inches long. We have not seen the 
pollen-masses of the plant, but it is so much like Br. glauca in habit, that we entertain little doubt 
of their belonging to the same genus. There are, however, some peculiarities in the structure of 
this plant, which must not be lost sight of. Its anther-bed has no fringes or other process at the 
edge, but is deeply sunk and guarded behind by a long subulate tooth, which curves over the 
anther, and the stigma has three linear foveee, which all open into one compressed stigmatic pas- 
sage.” — Bot. Reg. 53. 
Cypripe'dium irapea'num. Dr. Lindley observes : — “ The annexed figure, taken from a plant 
belonging to M. Hugo Finck, in the temporary possession of the Horticultural Society, does scanty 
justice to this noble species. It is indeed a faithful representation of what appeared at the 
Society’s garden ; but we have now before us a specimen collected in Mexico, near the town of 
Irapeo, which has two flowers more than twice the size open at the same time, and two more 
ready to expand. It looks like a gigantic form of the downy yellow Lady's Slipper (C. pubescens') 
of the United States.” — Bot. Reg., 58. 
Cle'matis smilacifo'lia. “ A fine but very little known species of Traveller' 1 s Joy with large 
scandent stems, handsome undivided leaves, marked with from five to seven nerves, much 
resembling those of some Smilax ; large paniculated racemes of dioecious or monoecious flowers, 
having singularly revolute sepals, dark rusty brown and downy without, almost black and glabrous 
within. Four allied species with these characters have been described by Blume and Wallich, 
but which, judging from the diagnoses of the authors, as well as by herbarium specimens, might 
reasonably be united into one, the original smilaci folia of Dr. Wallich, from Nepal. Of the 
identity of our plant, introduced from Java to the stoves of this country (where it flowers in June 
and July),” Sir W. J. Hooker says, “I have satisfied myself by comparison with authentic 
specimens. The Clematis, n. 1006 of Zollinger’s Java Plants, seems quite to agree with the Cl. 
