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tion, and appears to be remarkably prolific of its beautiful white flowers, which 
are finely scented in the evening. 
Angrcecum pertt)sum. Another and most singular species of the genus 
Angroecum, bearing the title here given, is likewise flowering at the Hackney 
Nursery, and attracts especial notice by the numerous and long racemes of small 
white blossoms it is at present producing, and the very curious aspect which the 
surface of these presents. The plant has strong, healthy, and large leaves, 
arranged closely, and altogether composing a rigid, vigorous habit ; while the 
racemes of flowers are projected almost horizontally. The blossoms are situated 
in two rows, one on each side of the axis, and their columns are disposed with the 
greatest regularity along the top of the stem, within a very short distance of each 
other, the lips spreading out below them with equal precision, and thus giving the 
appearance of the bared back-bone of a small animal, with its numerous vertebrae 
protruding above the surface. It is a particularly interesting object, and peculiarly 
calculated to fix the attention of the lover of strange forms in Nature. 
Barbacenia purpurea. A very showy old stove plant, which we have 
lately observed flowering in the Epsom Nursery, and which deserves mention 
both for its scarcity and the indescribably rich purple hue of its flowers. It seems 
to be a subshrubby species, bearing short narrow leaves, after the manner of 
Witsenia corymbosa, and elevating its solitary blossoms on a long peduncle. The 
flowers are not very dissimilar to those of the common Corn Cockle, but are of 
much more brilliant colour, and have a small cup, composed of several segments, 
in their centre. 
Catasetum maculatum. Not very widely different, in the comparatively 
uninteresting character of its flowers, from most of the other Cataseta, and a native 
of New Granada, from whence it was introduced in 1836. A specimen which is 
exhibiting its blooms in the Orchidaceous house of Messrs. Rollison, Tooting, 
displays a rather more contracted labellum to its flowers than is usually seen, and 
has sepals and petals of a green colour, pretty regularly spotted with reddish 
purple. We note these as its most obvious characteristics, for in other points it 
has the ordinary features of the genus. 
Ccel6gyne elata. This most beautiful Orchidaceous plant, which, like the 
whole of the species to which it is allied, is a denizen of Eastern India, may now 
be witnessed in a flowering condition at the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney. 
Its pseudo-bulbs are oblong, pale green, and very slightly furrowed ; the leaves 
long, lanceolate, and particularly smooth ; and the flowers, borne on an erect 
spike from the summit of the pseudo-bulbs, are of a delicate white, with two large 
orange blotches on the lip, the distinction of which would scarcely be perceptible 
were it not for two red stripes that separate them longitudinally. The flower- 
spike, when the specimen is growing very vigorously, sometimes attains a consider- 
able altitude, but that of the plant here alluded to is not more than a foot high. 
Comparettia r5sea. The charming Cotnparettia coccinea is yet insufficiently 
