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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
feature in the flower border, requiring some protection from excessive dampness in 
the winter, and increasing readily by cuttings or seeds. "We believe this to be 
identical with the Chelone Meocicana of nurseries. Bot. Reg. 21. 
THE JUSTICIA TRIBE (Acanthacece). 
Ruellia ciliatriflqra. Fringe-flowered Ruellia. Seeds of this handsome 
plant were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by Mr. Tweedie, of Buenos 
Ayres ; but Sir W. J. Hooker supposes that they were collected from some 
interior country. With apparently luxuriant habits, it has not yet exceeded 
eighteen inches in height in the stove of the above establishment, and blossoms in 
September. The foliage is large, and of a most vivid green ; the flowers being 
blue, with a purple throat. These latter have all their segments ciliated at the 
margin. Bot. Mag. 3718. 
PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONEJE.) 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE (Orchidacece). 
Dendrobium ai5reum ; var. pallidum. Golden-flowered Denbrobium ; pale 
variety. A charming Epiphyte, with white or cream-coloured blossoms, and 
remarkable for its agreeable fragrance, Mr. Macrae first discovered this plant 
growing upon trees near Nuera Ellia, in Ceylon ; and the variety here noticed, 
flowered in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges in March, 1838. The original species 
has dark, golden-coloured flowers, while those of our present subject are, as above 
stated, nearly white. The labellum, however, is very richly marked with orange 
towards its base. Bot. Beg. 20. 
Dendrobium crumenatum. Another white-flowered species of this genus, 
though less interesting than the former. The pseudo bulbs are terete and furrowed, 
the leaves small, oblong, and emarginate ; and the flowers are produced in long 
terminal racemes. " According to Blume, it varies with white and pink flowers, 
and with leaves more or less oblong and coriaceous." Like the species last alluded 
to, it is delightfully fragrant. It has been found in various parts of the Indian 
Archipelago, and a specimen flowered in the garden of His Grace the Duke of 
Northumberland, at Sion, in August, 1837 ; having been sent thither by Mr. 
Nightingale from Ceylon, Bot. Beg. 22. 
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE PRINCIPAL 
SUBURBAN NURSERIES. 
Camarotis purpurea. — Orchidaceous plants naturally arrange themselves in 
two divisions, viz. — such as have their stems compressed into the form of a bulb, 
and those which approach nearer to the habits of shrubs, and are continuous ; the 
former class being termed pseudo-bulbous ; the latter caulescent. It is undeniable 
that the caulescent tribes comprise the most beautiful objects, and that their appear- 
