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leaves deeply and numerously lobed, and the blossoms, which appear from the 
axils of the shoots, but are usually so near their extremities as to form a 
conspicuous bunch, are light purple, and interesting. In the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden, it is managed as a greenhouse herbaceous plant ; but in the neighbourhood 
of London, it will endure the open air in a dry situation. Its blooming season is 
June and July, and it will continue blossoming much later if planted in an exposed 
border. Bot. Mag. 3814. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Angr.ecum — ? A very distinct species of Angr cecum is at present blossoming 
with Messrs. Loddiges, and is deserving of especial attention for the peculiar 
character of its leaves, as well as for the great beauty of its numerous pure white 
flowers. The foliage is at once recognised by its deep green hue, its very irregular 
termination,— which is not of the kind called emarginate, or even erose, but still 
more remote from the ordinary structure, broader, and less uniformly jagged, — and 
by the very prominent reticulations. The latter feature is quite a novelty. Long- 
racemes of flowers, which are not large, but interesting, spring from the stem, and 
as they stand out boldly from the peduncle on separate pedicels, the whole being 
slightly drooping, they have a very pretty appearance when the plant is hanging 
from the top of the house. It is fastened to a log of wood, and thrives with 
particular vigour. 
Cycnoches chlorochilum. In the stove of Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple 
Place, who are making rapid progress towards the formation of a collection of 
orchidaceas, and have bloomed several rare species, the above plant is now exhibiting 
its extraordinary flowers. These rival the blossoms of almost all the plants related 
to them in size ; but their colour is a yellowish green, the lip only being of a 
whitish yellow. The species is one of those which are indispensable to a group of 
the tribe ; the dimensions and shape of the flowers redeeming it from that neglect 
which their tints would occasion. 
Dendrobium alpestre. Amongst the minuter sorts of orchidaceous plants, we 
have not noticed one that has caused us more pleasure than this very delightful 
little species. The stems and leaves together do not rise higher than two inches, 
and seldom so much ; yet there is a liveliness and healthiness of verdure in them, 
and they are so charmingly transparent, that no observant eye can be otherwise 
than interested. The floral racemes ascend slightly from the apex of the stems, 
after which they become pendent, and bear a comparatively large quantity of 
blossoms. The figure of these last is very similar to that of the blooms of 
D. teretifolium, and perhaps likewise of D. cucullatum : the sepals and petals are 
white, softly tinged with purple, and the lip is of the same ground, with a purple 
fringed margin. There is a lightness and grace about every organ that is most 
