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in the young state. Panicles of deep red flowers surmount tlie stems, and are of 
different shades of colour. It is very distinct and ornamental. 
Xpomcea HXrdingii. A hybrid production, of which /. scabra is apparently 
one of the parents, and bearing the name of the person who originated it. Messrs. 
Henderson of Pine- Apple Place have it with flowers of various shades of pink ; 
but the best is of a deep rich rose colour, with a darker centre. The leaves are 
unusually large, resembling fig-leaves, and the blossoms abundant. It is an ever- 
green plant requiring the heat of the stove. 
Loasa pentlandica. Very much resembling L. lateritia in the hue of its 
flowers, which are, however, larger than those of that species. It is of unknown 
origin, and has deeply-divided leaves, which are thickly clothed with stinging 
bristles. Plants in Messrs. Henderson's nursery are blooming beautifully. 
Oncidium Insleayanum. Although long confounded with Odontoglossum 
grande , to which its pseudo-bulbs certainly bear a great resemblance, this splendid 
plant is essentially different. Leaving the pseudo-bulbs and leaves out of consider- 
ation, for those of neither have yet been seen in England in a highly-developed 
cultivated state, the flowers are protruded on similar racemes ; but they are 
individually widely distinct, both in figure and colours. In the blossoms of 
0. Insleayanum , the sepals are pale yellow, much blotched with brown, except 
near the extremities : but the brown does not cover all the lower part of them, and 
is disposed in irregular stains : the lower two sepals are further merely separated 
from each other at the points. The petals are similar, and somewhat wavy, while 
the centre of the flowers is marked with blackish streaks and spots. The lip is 
nearly round, narrowing at the base, very slightly undulated, of the brightest 
yellow, with large spots of rich reddish-brown round the outside. The two upper 
plates in the middle of the lip are crescent-shaped ; the low 7 er two small, and merely 
detached at the tips. The column has long, narrow ears, curled inwards. Messrs. 
Loddiges flowered it in March, on a block of wood, in a compartment of their 
Palm-stove. 
Physolobium carinatum. Commonly, but improperly called P. gracilis . 
Seeds have been introduced within the last two years from the Swan River colony, 
and it is now in flower in several nurseries. The genus is distinguished from 
Kennedya by the inflated nature of its seed-pods. It is a slender climber, bearing 
its blossoms on long, erect foot-stalks, in clusters of two and three. The flowers 
are of a deep brownish or purplish red hue, and very showy. 
Polystachya reflexa. Brought from Sierra Leone by Mr. Whitfield last 
season, and first flowered by Mr. Edmonds, gardener to His Grace the Duke of 
Devonshire, Chiswick. It is now again blossoming at Mr. Knight’s, Chelsea. 
The pseudo-bulbs are comparatively short and stout, the leaves long, thin, and 
slender, and the flowers of a delicate pinkish white and very pretty. The lip is 
turned back so as to cover the column, but throws itself out in an oblique direction 
when the flower is fully expanded* 
