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this last will create a pleasing variety, and is decidedly novel. A plant which is 
apparently an additional new species of this genus is likewise blooming at the 
Horticultural Society’s garden, and has large wdiite flowers. These are, at present, 
less numerous than those of its congeners ; but it will doubtless prove an ornamental 
stove plant. 
Bceckia camphor6smai. An elegant greenhouse shrub, introduced from the 
Swan River Colony, and flowered last month in the collection of Messrs. Henderson, 
Pine- Apple Place, as well as in that of other individuals. Its habit is somewhat 
like that of some Heaths, the leaves being short and dense, and the whole plant not 
more than nine inches or a foot high, with numbers of neat pinkish- white blossoms 
issuing from the sides of its curved and waving branches. From its general 
appearance it seems likely to prove an interesting and attractive species. 
BossiiEA paucif5lia. Tall, straggling, flattened branches, and diminutive 
brownish-yellow flowers, are the most conspicuous features of this new Swan River 
species, which has just bloomed with Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, and Mr. Low, 
of the Clapton nursery. It is a rather inelegant shrub, and is distinguished by the 
fewness of its leaves. 
Catasetum citrinum. Messrs. Loddiges have latterly blossomed this peculiar 
and novel plant, which has also been flowered by Mr. Edmonds, gardener to His 
Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick. Unlike most of its tribe, it is 
remarkable for having flowers of a showy pale-yellow colour, and on this account is 
perhaps superior to many of its allies. 
Cattleya Aclandije. One of the finest species of this superlatively-handsome 
orchidaceous genus ; but deriving its title to distinction not so much from the mag- 
nitude of its flowers, as from the richness of their colours, and the general dwarfness 
of the entire plant. Its stems are thin, not more than six or nine inches high, and 
bearing one, two, or severaL blossoms on their summit in the usual way. The 
flowers are about the size of those of C. Loddijesii , with the sepals and petals 
superbly mottled with brown on a greenish-yellow ground, and a deep pink labellum. 
A variety has recently bloomed at Messrs. Loddiges’, Hackney, the sepals and 
petals of which are much paler than in the ordinary state, and have far fewer 
markings. 
Cattleya bicolor. A most beautiful as well as rare species, the stems of 
which are slender, not swelling in the middle, and from a foot to eighteen inches in 
height. The sepals and petals are mottled with pink and olive, and the lip is of a 
fine deep purplish-crimson, with the edges folding over each other, and inclosing the 
column. It is flowering in fine condition in Messrs. Loddiges’ orchidaceous house. 
Cattleya citrina. Among the rest of the Cattleyas, this species stands out 
very prominently from its small, roundish, whitened pseudo-bulbs, and narrow 
glaucous leaves. It may be recognised in the largest collection by these character- 
istics, and the flowers are produced from the base of the pseudo-bulbs on long 
pendent scapes, which sometimes bear one, and more rarely two, blossoms. They 
