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conjunction with the one above noticed, it is a useful ornament of the greenhouse 
during the dull season. 
Boronia anemon^ef5lia. Obtained from New Holland many years ago by 
Messrs. Loddiges, but never, as we are informed, before blossomed in this country. 
Its delicate pink flowers, which are not much unlike those of B. pinnata , are just 
beginning to expand in one of Messrs Loddiges' greenhouses, and are both pretty 
and abundant. Its distinction mainly rests on the character of the foliage, which 
has deep and numerous lobes, and as appears from its name has been compared to 
that of the Anemone , though the resemblance is not particularly striking. 
Boronia ledifolia. Seeds of this species were procured at the same time as those 
of the preceding kind, and germinated in the same establishment. It may be con- 
sidered much prettier than the other ; but this opinion is possibly due to the greater 
forwardness of its flowers, or the circumstance of the majority unfolding themselves 
almost simultaneously. The leaves are narrow, short, undivided, and rather 
scattered, while the blossoms are large, bright pink, like those of Bauera rubioicles , 
with rounder petals than the foregoing species, and altogether a superior display of 
flowers. It is an exceedingly neat and ornamental plant, and will be valued by 
the growers of greenhouse exotics. 
Ccelogyne flaccida. This is an extremely beautiful Nepal species, imported 
by Messrs. Loddiges a few years since, and at present blooming in their Orchida- 
ceous-house. The pseudo-bulbs are long and thin, with two peculiarly lengthy, 
narrow, acuminate leaves issuing from their summits, and large pendulous racemes 
of flowers proceeding from their base. These racemes are particularly numerous, 
and bear a large number of lovely white blossoms. The sepals and petals are 
slender, the latter being a little narrower, and the lip has an elongated middle lobe, 
which curves under at the extremity. It is of a white ground, but stained with 
orange and striped with pink in the middle. The extreme profusion of the flowers 
renders this species highly valuable to the cultivator. 
Cyrtochilum macelatum, vars. Scarcely two of this species can be found in 
which the flowers are precisely alike. Messrs. Loddiges have recently flowered a 
very large and superior variety, which in addition to the size of its blossoms has 
them of darker and richer colours. They have likewise bloomed an inferior sort, 
the flowers of which are not more than two-thirds the size of the one above mentioned, 
and of a duller coloured ground with paler blotches. A variety was lately figured 
in the Botanical Magazine under the title of C. M. var. exornatum , which seems 
destitute of the little horn-like processes at the end of the plates in the centre of the 
lip ; but we doubt whether this peculiarity will prove durable, having seen 
individual flowers in specimens of the original species which distinctly wanted that 
appendage. At Messrs. Lee’s of the Hammersmith nursery, a showy variety 
is now developing its blossoms. Its characteristics are rather broader sepals and 
petals, a rounder general outline to the flowers, and the presence of two or three 
irregular blotches on the lip. 
