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EriDENDRUM FUNIFERUM. 
Messrs. Rollisson of Tooling. Flowers in the 
latter part of summer. Culture. — Requires 
a moist stove ; turfy peat soil ; propagated by 
division of the plant. 
Polygonum Brunonis, Wallich (Brown's 
Polygonum). — Polygonaceae § Polygoneae. — 
A very pretty little half-shrubby dark green 
leaved trailing plant, with dwarf ascending 
stems, capable of covering considerable patches 
with its shoots in the course of a single sum- 
mer. Its stems are as thick as a goose-quill, 
bearing long stalked lanceolate leaves, when 
old marked with prominent veins round the 
edges, which gives them the appearance of 
being serrated. The flowers are in little 
spikes, rosy-coloured, in the way of P. vac- 
ciniifoUum, but larger and paler. Native of 
the mountains of the northern parts of India, 
[ntroduced in 1845, by Capt. W. Munro, to 
the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
Flowers in the latter part of summer. Cul- 
ture. — Hardy ; well suited for the decora- 
tion of rockwork ; free loamy soil ; propa- 
gated by cuttings or transplanting its rooted 
branches. 
Pachystigma pteleoides, Hooker (Ptelea- 
leaved Pachystigma). — Rutaceae § Eudiosmeas. 
— A large shrub, or small tree, possessing more 
botanical interest than floral beauty. The 
flowers are, however, rather pretty. In its 
native country it forms a small tree of slender 
graceful habit, bearing ternate evergreen dark 
green leaves, full of pellucid dots. The 
flowers grow in small trichotomous panicles 
from the axils of the upper leaves ; they are 
an inch or more across, buttercup-shaped, 
cream-coloured, and very fragrant; "the five- 
leaved calyx gradually passes into the concave 
petals." Native of the mountains of Santa 
Cruz, in Jamaica, where it was discovered by 
Mr. Purdie. Introduced to the Royal Gar- 
den at Kew, in 1844. Flowers in February. 
Culture. — Requires a stove ; free loamy soil ; 
propagated by cuttings planted in sand, and 
placed in bottom heat. 
GOMPHOLOBIUM HIRSUTUM, PdXton (hirsute 
Gompholobium). — Fabaceae § Papilionaceae- 
Podalyrieae. — A fine shrubby plant, of the 
smaller class, with less inclination to twine 
than many of the Gompholobiums. The plant 
is covered on every part with fine hairs. The 
leaves are pinnated, consisting of six or eight 
pairs of linear obtuse glaucous leaflets fringed 
with long hairs ; the flowers are corymbose, 
the calyx tomentose, the corolla deep yellow, 
paler at the base of the standard, the wings 
narrow, and the keel bearded. Its bright 
yellow blossoms are very ornamental when 
the plant is in good health. Native of Aus- 
tralia, in the Swan River colony. Intro- 
duced in 1844. Flowers in May and June. 
Culture. — Requires a greenhouse ; sandy 
heath-mould and light loam ; propagated by 
cuttings of the half-ripened shoots placed in 
bottom heat. , 
EPIDENDRUM FUNIFERUM. 
Epidendrum funiferum, Morren, (thread 
petalled Epidendrum). — Orchidaceae § Epi- 
dendreaa-Lasliadas. 
This pretty Epidendrum was sent with 
others in a case to M. Alexander Verschaffelt, 
of Ghent, by his collectors, De Vos and De 
Rycke, from St. Catherine's, probably some 
time in 1847. 
It may be described as a handsome and 
very distinct epiphytal species, with a round, 
straight, erect stem, from eighteen inches to 
two feet high, on which alternate, oblong, 
lanceolate, acuminate, striated leaves are borne, 
enveloping the stem at their base in the man- 
ner of a sheath, and also much incurved at the 
apex. The flowers, which are produced on 
numerous short pendulous spikes from the 
joints at the top of the stem, are small, of a 
rich orange colour, with a white centre ; the 
sepals are entire, ovate-acuminate, spreading, 
orange- coloured, tinged with light green and 
purple on the outside ; the petals are remark- 
able for their thin thread-like form, they are 
as long as the sepals, and at first adhere to 
the sides of the two lateral ones, but separate 
nearly to the base with the full expansion of 
the flower, and ultimately assume a corkscrew 
form ; the labellum is triparted, lengthened, 
joined to the column, and white at the centre ; 
the side holes are sinuated, the intermediate 
lobe is emarginate, the disk marked with three 
lamellae or plates. 
It is easily distinguished by its singular 
structure ; its two lateral petals being quite 
