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except in the form of its flowers, with this species, which is really a good herbaceous 
plant for large or shrubbery borders. It has large and handsome leaves, and the 
flower stems attain the height of four feet and upwards, but so extensively ramified, 
and so profusely covered with its clear white blossoms, as to make altogether a very 
desirable border plant. Our attention was drawn to it in June last, at Messrs. 
Young’s, Epsom, where it was then flowering most abundantly. 
Cycl6gyne oanescens. This showy suffruticose Swan River plant, which 
either appears likely to be lost sight of among the multitude of other novelties, or 
is yet too scarce to be frequently seen, has recently bloomed very finely at Mr. 
Knight’s, Chelsea. The deep-purple tint of the flowers, merging to greenish 
towards the middle, their size, the length of the flower-spikes, and the number of 
these produced on a healthy specimen, give it a strong claim to be singled out from 
the host of other comparatively worthless plants from the same region, and carefully 
tended. It only requires to be kept constantly in a light greenhouse or frame, and 
watered with some degree of caution. 
Cypripedium barbatum. In its prettily-mottled leaves, this new species is 
somewhat like another and familiar member of the genus, and the flowers are not 
very far remote from those of the same sort. In the sepals and petals of the blossoms, 
there is a pleasing mixture of white, purple, and green, disposed in parallel streaks, 
though the purple is more generally diffused near the edges. A delicate beard- 
like tuft of hairs is situated in the centre. Messrs. Loddiges have introduced it, 
and it flowered in their establishment during the past spring. 
CyrtochIlum filipes. What renders this slender species rather extraordinary 
is that it has been in flower for fully four months, at Messrs. Rollisson’s, Tooting, 
where there are blooms still expanded, and blossom-buds yet to open. It is a 
pretty plant, with weak stems, six inches long, incapable of supporting themselves, 
and bearing the flowers at their extremities. The sepals and petals are yellow, 
much mottled with brown, and the lip is large, conspicuous, and pure yellow. 
It is grown in a pot, but might be advantageously placed on a suspended log 
of wood. 
Cytisus filipes. Straight erect stems, from which depend a number of 
thread-like shoots, destitute of leaves, and giving to the plant a “weeping” 
character, distinguish this charming species ; which has, in several metropolitan 
collections, been liberally decorated with its tufts of fragrant white blossoms 
throughout the months of April and May. It is probably from the island of Teneriffe, 
and constitutes a beautiful greenhouse shrub. 
Gesnera Arn6ldii. A splendid plant, hardly to be distinguished from G. 
Sellowii. It has intense scarlet flowers, round the lower portion of the throat of 
which there is a band of bright blue. Messrs. Henderson, of Pine- Apple Place, 
possess blooming specimens. 
