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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
JULY. 
Callistachys linearis. Like most of its congeners, this species is of a 
rambling habit, with small stems, long, linear, reticulate, and mucronulate foliage, 
and dull reddish purple-coloured flowers, which are borne in a terminal spike. The 
hue of its blossoms is unusual, these generally being yellow ; but it was at first 
supposed to have been crimson, and has been a source of great disappointment. It 
was received at the garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, where it 
flowered in October last, from Mr. Low, of Clapton, by whom it had been imported 
from the Swan River colony, through the agency of Mr. Drummond. Bot. Mag. 
3882. 
CymbIdium pubescens. The disposition and figure of the leaves in this species 
are rather peculiar, as they clasp each other at the base in the manner of an Iris, 
and are sword-shaped, with distinct parallel nerves. The flowers are produced on 
dependent racemes, which issue from the bottom of the leaves. The colour of the 
sepals seems to be a purplish brown, with a green margin ; that of the lip is yellow, 
with a large brownish blotch surrounding its extremity. It has a very hairy lip, 
in which respect it differs from C. bicolor ; Ci but it corresponds with that species in 
the remarkable character of a shallow bag being present at the base of the lip.” 
Mr. Cuming discovered it at Sincapore, and sent it to Messrs. Loddiges. Bot. Reg. 38. 
Epidendrum Grahami. Apparently not much unlike E. alatum , though 
having different colours to its flowers, and wanting the broad wing-like appendages 
of the column. Plants in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden were procured from 
Mexico, and Sir W. J. Llooker has named it after Dr. Graham. It is a handsome 
species, having small oval pseudo-bulbs, terminated by two broadly-linear leaves, 
from between which the flower-stalk ascends to the height of about eighteen inches. 
This does not appear to branch, and the flowers are loosely disposed. They are 
large, with yellowish green sepals and petals, which become brown towards the 
points, and a long, broad, wavy lip, which is white, striped with red, and has two 
yellowish side-lobes. Bot. Reg. 3885. 
Ipomcea batatoides. A showy climbing species, whose flowers are so 
beautiful that a rival to them can hardly be found in this most lovely race. The 
stems do not ramble so much as some do, nor are the leaves so abundant as to 
overshadow and conceal the flowers ; but the latter stand forward from before the 
foliage, and fully expand in the early part of the day.” We saw it flowering about 
three months ago in a stove at the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and the blossoms 
were of a hue somewhat intermediate between the richest purple and crimson. 
