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peat soil ; propagated by cuttings, planted in 
sand under bell glasses in a gentle bottom 
heat. Probably better adapted for planting 
out in a warm greenhouse, than for pot- 
culture. 
Phrynium trifasciatum. Lemaire (three- 
banded Phrynium). — Marantace^. — A very 
handsome herbaceous perennial, quite steraless, 
the leaves (all radical) broad oval-elliptic, 
sharply pointed, smooth above and finely orna- 
mented with three bands spotted with white ; 
oneof thesebands or stripes occupies the centre, 
the other two run parallel with the margins, 
and are of an irregular form ; the margins are 
slightly undulated, and the under side is covered 
with soft whitish pubescence ; the petioles are 
straight, glabrous, more or less amplexicaul, 
and dotted with white. The scape, which issues 
from the root, is short and many-flowered. The 
flowers are large, and of a fine golden yellow, 
composed of six thin segments, the three outer 
ones linoar-oblong, and united into a tube at 
the base, two of the inner series ovate-oblong, 
the other one much smaller ; the column is 
erect, short, slightly swollen and convex at the 
summit, and horizontally bent and bilobed, 
resembling the head and bill of a bird. Na- 
tive of Mexico. Introduced to Brussels by 
M. Galeotti, in 1845. Flowers ? Cul- 
ture. — Requires a stove ; loam and peat ; 
propagated by division. 
EcHEVERiA ruLGENS, Lemaire (fulgent 
Echeveria). — Crassulaccfe § Crassuleag. — A 
pretty species, nearly allied to E. hracteolata, 
from which it differs in having a simple, not 
forked, scape, the leaves rosulate and not cau- 
linary. It is allied also to E. lurida, differing 
from that in having two-coloured flowers, and 
unicoloured leaves. The leaves are obovate- 
spathulate, with a membranaceous fimbriated 
margin. The flowers grow on a simple 
elongated reddish scape, and are of an intense 
vermilion-scarlet tipped with orange ; the 
petals are acutely keeled on the back, and 
gibbous at the base. The cicatrices marked 
on the stem by the fall of the leaves, are large, 
oval and brown-coloured. Native of Mexico. 
Introduced to the gardens of Belgium in 1 845. 
Flowers ? Culture. — Requires a green- 
house ; well-drained sandy loam ; propagated 
by its succulent leaves planted as cuttings. 
MiLTONiA sPECTABiLis, var. purpureo- 
violacea (purple variety of the showy Mil- 
tonia). — Orchidacese § VandeEC-Brassidae. — 
This is a beautiful and striking variety of the 
well known Miltonia .specfabilis. From that 
plant the present differs only in the colour of 
its blossoms. Instead of the whitish sepals 
and petals of the original kind, we have here 
the same organs of an intense purple-violet ; 
and the lip, which in that is purple, and con- 
sequently most deeply coloured, is here lightest. 
being of a paler purple than the sepals and 
petals. It is a pseudo-bulbous epiphyte, with 
strap-shaped leaves, and peduncles rising from 
the base of the pseudo-bulbs, bearing each one 
large blossom. Native of the Organ Moun- 
tains in Brazil. Introduced in 1847. Flowers 
in September. Culture. — Requires a moist 
and somewhat high stove heat ; rough turfy 
peat soil, or to be attached to a block of wood ; 
propagated by division of the plant. 
Calontction macranthum, Lemaire (large 
flowered Calonyction). — Convolvulacefe § Con- 
volvulese. A magnificent perennial green- 
house climber, with an elongated tuberous 
rhizoma, and long, smooth, milky, climbing 
stems, of a sombre purple colour. The lower 
leaves are cordate-ovate, acuminate; the upper 
ones hastate, with roundish basal lobes. The 
flowers grow in umbels of four or five together 
in the axils of the leaves ; they are large and 
strong; the calyx is tubular, deeply five-parted, 
the three outer segments membraneous at the 
borders, and bearing on the outside a long di- 
varicated horn; the tube of the corolla is cylin- 
drical, delicate green, merging to white at the 
summit; the limb pure white, nearly five -lobed, 
each lobe being traversed by a broad fold or 
plait, which is prominent underneath, finely 
striated, and inclining to green. The flowers 
are from six to seven inches across, and the 
tube alone more than four inches long. Native 
country not known. Introduced to the Belgian 
gardens before 1846. Flowers during the 
summer. It is the Ifomcea Krusensternii of 
the Belgian gardens; and is related to the 
Lpomcea Bona-nox of Linnaeus, the Calonyc- 
tion speciosum of Choisy. Culture. — Requires 
a warm greenhouse ; rich loamy soil ; propa- 
gated by seeds and by cuttings. 
SlSTRINCHIUMLONGISTTLUM,Z'emaZ>e(long- 
styled Sisyrinchium). — Iridaceae. — A pretty 
perennial herb, with the habit of a corn-flag. 
Its stem, proceeding not from a bulb but from 
a bunch of fibres, is simple, or scarcely at all 
ramified. The leaves are linear-ensiforra, and 
glaucescent, as is the whole plant ; they are 
sheathed and sharply pointed. The flowers, 
which are furnished with long pedicels, and 
issue, three to five, from two-valved spathes, 
are of a fine yellow, and have innumerable 
bracts; the petals, which are unguiculate, 
roundish-ovate, and revolute, have a small 
purple spot near the claw, which produces a 
very pretty eff^ect. The style projects beyond 
the corolla, and has a capitate stigma, issuing 
from a long, hairy, papillous tube, formed by 
the close joining of the staminal filaments, the 
anthers of which form a sort of ring under the 
stigma. It is hence referred to a section of 
the genus called Androsolen, in which the 
stamens are distinctly connate into a tube. 
Native of Chili. Introduced into the gardens 
