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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL 
PERIODICALS FOR JULY, &c. 
Achimenes cupreata. A new and highly interesting species of Achimenes , remarkable i 
the dark copper colour on the upper side of its rather large, elliptical leaves, (not unlike, in hi 
those of the copper-coloured beech,) purplish-rose beneath, and the rich scarlet flowers, with t 
segments of the limb beautifully toothed and ciliated. It was detected by Mr. Purdie, on mo 
banks, near Sona, New Grenada, and from seeds sent by him, in September, 1845, to the Roa 
Gardens, plants were reared, which flowered in April, 1847. It requires the same treatment 
other species of Achimenes. A shallow pan is soon filled with it, owing to the extraordina 
stoloniferous nature of the plant ; among the dark coppery leaves the bright flowers have a ve 
pretty effect. Bot. Mag., 4312. 
Anguloa Clowesii var. Notwithstanding some very trifling discrepancies in structure, a: 
more marked ones in the colour of the flower, (which is a fine yellow, with an orange lip,) Sir \ 
Hooker cannot consider this fine plant other than a variety of A . Clowesii, figured by Dr. Lindl 
in the Botanical Register, 1844, tab. 63. It was sent by Mr. Purdie to the Royal Gardens 
Kew, and bloomed in the collection at Syon, under the skilful management of Mr, Carton, in M 
last. The blossoms are fragrant. Bot. Mag., 4313. 
Cleisostoma ionosmum. A native of Manilla, whence it was sent to Messrs. Loddiges 
Mr. Cuming. It flowered in the Hackney nursery, in March, 1844. The flowers are in an op 
panicle, about an inch across, flat, with five obovate equal obtuse lobes, yellow with cinnamc 
brown blotches. The lip is white, with a few red streaks, three-lobed, with the basal lobes aci 
and smaller than the middle one, which is cordate, triangular, acute, and much larger than th 
are. The flowers smell pleasantly of violets. Bot. Reg., 41. 
Dendrobium chrysotoxum. A species introduced from the East Indies by Messrs. Henders( 
and is extremely handsome. It differs from D. densifiorum in its many-angled pseudo-bulbs, sm 
bracts, and curiously fringed pubescent, not shaggy, lip ; from D. Griffithianum in its rou 
emarginate fringed lip ; and from D. aggregatum in the same respects, as well as in its great chi 
shaped, many-leaved, pseudo-bulbs. Bot. Reg., 36. The flowers are bright orange yellow. 
Dendrobium Egertoni^e. This species is very near D. mesochlorum , but the flowers are r 
half the size ; the sepals are pale pink outside ; there is very little appearance of a purple sts 
on the tips of the petals and lip, and the middle of the lip is dull yellow, not green. The 
is, moreover, no tubercle at the back of the point of the spur, and the lip is not fringe 
except at its base. If it is a less showy species than D. mesochlorum , it is not, on that accoui 
less valuable, for its flowers are delightfully scented towards evening. Bot. Reg., 36 Des. 
Dendrobium mesochlorum. This beautiful species, allied to JD. crumenatum, and resembli 
it in habit, although destitute of a bulbous base to its stems, was imported from India by Mess: 
Veitch. The flowers are white, of the size of JD. crumenatum, with a violet spot at the ends 
the petals and lip, and with a green stain in the centre of the latter. They have a faint, b: 
agreeable odour. Bot. Reg., 36 Des. 
Echinocactus hex-edrophorus. This handsome Cactus has long been cultivated at Kew, ai 
is stated to be a native of Tampico. It is of nearly a globose form, and remarkable for its lar 
tubercles, which are obscurely six-sided. Its flowering season is June, and the blossoms are 
rose coloured, lively and pretty. Bot. Mag., 4311. 
Hypocyrta leucostoma. A Gesneraceous plant, received by Mr. Purdie from New Grenad 
It bears pretty, drooping, axillary, orange red flowers, in a moist stove, in April. Bot. Mag., 43k 
PLANTS, NEW OR RARE, IN FLOWER IN OR ABOUT LONDON. 
JEchmea discolor. A species much like the AE. fulgens, figured in No. 116 of our Magazin 
though it has far less brilliancy of colour, both in the scarlet of its flower and stem, as well as tl 
purple at the tip of each bloom. The specimen was in a collection of plants exhibited by 
Lucombe and Co., of Exeter, at the July /ete of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent’s Park. 
