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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
operation. If the varieties be judiciously disposed with regard to their colour, 
they will constitute a most brilliant and alluring display. 
Where the common flats, which are placed beneath flower-pots, cannot con- 
veniently be used, a small drawer lined with tin or zinc may be made at the bottom, 
to catch all the water administered as it drains through. The plants must be placed in 
a light situation, watered daily, or once in two days, though not very abundantly, and 
suffered gradually to wither about two months after the flowers fade. We commend 
the adoption of such receptacles to all who feel an interest in watching vegetable 
developments, or who seek to banish the idea of winter, and anticipate the charms 
of spring. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
DECEMBER AND JANUARY. 
Angelonia cornigera. A very free-flowering species, discovered by Mr. 
Gardner in Brazil, and forwarded to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it 
flowered during the last season. It is a hairy, upright, branching plant, with 
narrow leaves, and occasionally a little ciliated at their base. The flowers are 
axillary, solitary, of a beautiful bluish-purple colour, which becomes darker about 
the middle, and having a “large and conspicuous horn-like appendage arising from 
the middle segment of the lower lip, and directed towards the centre.” It has 
been kept in a stove, but would probably flourish with the heat of a greenhouse. 
Being found in sandy places, a large proportion of sand should be blended with the 
soil in which it is potted. Bot. Mag. 3848. 
Catasetum callosum, &c. Several species of Catasetum , whose pseudo-bulbs 
and leaves so greatly assimilate as not to require particular delineation, are figured in 
the same plate. C. callosum has flowers in which the sepals and petals are dull 
reddish brown, without spots ; and the lip is pale green, flat, and has a small 
yellow protuberance at its base, with a blotch of the same hue near the extremity. 
Messrs. Loddiges introduced it from La Guayra. C. cornutum bears very long 
racemes of flowers, the individual ones being green, profusely spotted with dark 
purple, while the labellum is of the like colour, very imperfectly fringed, and having a 
strong inflexed white horn towards the base. It was imported from Demerara by 
Messrs. Loddiges. C. lanciferum has singular purplish flowers, with a white entire 
lip, and was received from Brazil by the Hon. and very Rev. W. Herbert. 
Echeveria Florida. Differing but slightly from E. secunda , except in “ having 
longer and more blunt leaves, which are deeply stained with dull purple. The 
flowers too are a richer scarlet.” It is a showy greenhouse perennial, requiring to 
be treated as the more tender species of Mesembryanthemum . The temperature of 
