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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
valley. Introduced in 1847 to the garden of 
the Horticultural Society by Mr. Hartweg. 
Flowers in the summer months. Culture. — 
Apparently best managed as a half-hardy 
annual ; light rich loamy soil ; propagated by 
seeds. 
Morjiodes lentiginosa, Hooker (freckled 
Mormodes). — Orchidacese § Vandeaj-Cate- 
sidas. — A curious and rather pretty epiphyte, 
having oblong round pseudo-bulbs, which, 
when young, are nearly globose. These bear 
several leaves, each a span long, lanceolate, 
and striated. From the base of the pseudo- 
bulbs grows the flower scape, a foot or a foot 
and a half long, bearing a raceme of pale 
reddish-brown flowers, everywhere sprinkled 
with darker coloured dots, the column being 
of a deeper colour than the rest of the blossom ; 
the sepals and petals are oblong, acute, with 
the margins recurved ; the former are directed 
backwards, and the latter forwards ; the lip 
is fleshy, obovate, with the sides curved back, 
like the flaps of a saddle. The flowers are 
drooping, so that the sepals stand upright and 
the petals point downwards. Native of Cen- 
tral America. Introduced about 1847, by 
Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park. Flow r ers in 
April. Culture. — Requires a stove ; turfy 
peat soil ; propagated by division. In winter 
it should be kept rather dry. 
Wistaria sinensis, var. alba (white Chinese 
Wistaria). — Leguminaceas § Papilionacae-Ga- 
legaa. — The old lilac-flowered Wistaria (or 
Glycine) sinensis, is well known. Like that 
plant, the present variety is a deciduous shrub, 
with long trailing woody branches, bearing 
pinnate leaves, with rather large oval leaflets, 
and in the spring producing long drooping 
bunches of the pea-like blossoms. In this 
variety, however, the blossoms are quite white. 
The Chinese are said to have many varieties 
of this plant. The present is spoken of as a 
much less attractive plant than the old one ; 
but it would no doubt produce a pretty effect 
when in blossom, if either trained with or 
inarched upon the common sort. Native of 
China. Introduced about 1846 to the garden 
of the Horticultural Society. Flowers in 
May. Culture. — Hardy ; requires a strong 
rich loamy soil ; propagated by layers. 
Alloplectus capitatus, Hooker (capi- 
tate Alloplectus). — Gesneraceaa § Gesnerese. 
— A beautiful tall-growing, robust, soft- 
stemmed plant, but little inclined to branch, 
the stems fleshy, and bluntly four-angled, 
clothed in the upper part with short, dense, 
blood- coloured, velvety down. These bear 
large spreading or somewhat drooping leaves, 
which are ovate acute, with serrated margins, 
clothed all over with velvety down, and of a 
rich deep green colour on the upper surface, 
with a blood-coloured midrib ; they are from 
ten inches to a foot in length. The flowers 
grow in a large dense umbellate head, and 
are very showy ; the calyx is large, consisting 
of five broad downy cucullate sepals, of a rich 
blood colour ; the corolla, comparatively small, 
consisting of a ventricose tube, terminating in 
a small mouth of five small rounded segments ; 
its colour is yellow, forming, as it were, an 
eye to the broad expanded calyx. Native of 
tropical America. Introduced in 1 848. Flowers 
in March and April. It is the Alloplectus 
speciosus of gardens, but not of Poeppig. 
Culture. — Requires a stove ; semi-epiphytal ; 
should be potted in loose peat, and in winter 
not over-watered ; propagated by cuttings of 
the stems and leaves. 
Ccelogyne asperata, Lindley (rough- 
lipped Coelogyne). — Orchidaceas § Epidendreas- 
Coelogynidaa. — Much the finest of all the Coelo- 
gynes. It is an epiphytal plant, bearing 
pendulous racemes of noble blossoms, in spikes 
nearly a foot long, containing each from twelve 
to fourteen flowers, which are three inches 
wide when spread open ; the sepals are lan- 
ceolate, keeled ; the petals narrower, and 
without a keel ; these parts are of a pale 
cream colour ; the lip is cucullate, with erect 
ovate lateral lobes, and an intermediate oblong 
crisped one, the disc being broken in a rugged 
verrucose manner; this organ is richly marked 
with brownish-yellow veins, springing from 
the rugged bright orange central ridge. The 
beauty of these fine blossoms is heightened by 
the presence, at the base of each, of a brown 
concave dry bract, which by contrast produces 
this effect. Native of Borneo. Introduced in 
1848. Flowers in May. Culture. — Requires 
a hot moist stove ; turfy peat soil ; propagated 
by division of the plant. 
Epidendrum fragrans, var. megalanthum 
(large sweet-flowered Epidendrum). — Orchi- 
daceaa § Epidendrese-Laeliadas. — A very de- 
sirable epiphyte, belonging to a species which 
is not very attractive in appearance, but pos- 
sesses a delicious fragrance. The present 
variety is one producing very large blossoms ; 
they are fully four inches in diameter, the 
colour a pale greenish white, the lip vividly 
marked by clean stripes of very rich crimson. 
Native of Guatemala. Introduced by G. U. 
Skinner, Esq. in 1848. Flowers in May. 
Culture. — Requires a cool part of the orchid 
house ; turfy peat soil ; propagated by divi- 
sion of the plant. 
Amherstia nobilis, Wallich (splendid 
Amherstia). — Leguminaceae § Caasalpinieae- 
Amherstieas. — One of the most splendid of 
tropical trees. It has large pinnate leaves, 
with from six to eight pairs of elliptic leaflets, 
and bears its flowers in magnificent axillary 
racemes, each blossom hanging on a long 
pendulous crimson stalk. There is first a 
