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seeds were given by Professor De Candolle to the Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden it flowered in November last." Its average height is about two or three 
feet ; it is of perennial duration, and flourishes best in a dry position, with culture 
similar to that bestowed on Acanthus mollis. To the plant just named it has some 
resemblance in character, having prickly and peculiarly jagged foliage, with large 
whorls of flowers. The last are, however, of a pinkish red tint, and have very 
much of the form of a Verbena. It is propagated readily by seeds, blossoms from 
July till the decline of autumn, and requires the protection of a hand-glass in 
winter, on account of its inability to endure much wet. Bot. Reg. 36. 
Myanthus spin5sus. What principally isolates this new Myanthus is the 
spreading, linear, grooved lip, which is saccate near the middle, and has its 
" margins beautifully fringed with white, flexuose, succulent hairs, greenish- white 
beneath, dotted with red, bearing on the upper side, at the base, an erect, three- 
parted' spine or horn, and having a much larger porrected one below the acumen, 
which is a little toothed and fimbriated. 1 ' In colour, the flowers assimilate to 
those of M. barbatus, but they are more densely disposed, and on a stronger erect 
spike. The pseudo-bulbs are not remarkable, and the leaves have not yet been 
seen. It was found by Mr. Gardner in the province Ceara, in the interior of 
Brazil ; and having been sent from thence to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, bloomed 
in February of the present year. Bot. Mag. 3802. 
Oncidium Huntianum. There seems to us a striking similitude between this 
plant and the 0. roseum of Messrs. Loddiges' collection ; although, if the drawing 
before us be faithfully coloured, the spots of its flowers are pure red instead of pink, 
there is a larger blotch of red at the base of the lip, and an undefined stain of yellow 
in the centre of the flower. It is a Brazilian species, after the habit of 0. Cartha- 
ginense, but with much smaller and more gaudily-coloured blossoms. Specimens 
sent to Woburn Abbey, by — Hunt, Esq., of Rio Janeiro, flowered in October, 
1839, and it has been named in compliment to the above gentleman. Bot. Mag. 
3806. 
Portulaca Thellusonii. We have had opportunities of witnessing and 
admiring this singularly splendid plant, and fully concur in Dr. Lindley's assertion 
that art is incapable of doing it justice, notwithstanding the very showy plate in 
the Botanical Register. " It was sent from Florence to the Horticultural Society, 
by the Hon. Frederick Thelluson, now Lord Rendlesham," and has been thought 
worthy, on account of its apparent distinctness from the other species, of bearing 
that gentleman's name. Like other tender annuals, its seeds should be sown on a 
gentle hotbed in spring, and the young plants flower better if kept in pots, in the 
compost usually prepared for Mesembryanthema, and freely exposed to the sun. In 
the open border, the flowers are liable to injury from wind and rain ; and " the best 
place for it is in a south window, or on the south side of a greenhouse, or at the foot 
of a hot south wall in a sequestered nook, especially if among a few blocks of lime- 
stone rock." It grows sometimes to a foot in height, and blooms nearly all the 
