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respects, the variety pretty closely agrees 
with its parent, and like it, is deserving of 
cultivation. A garden variety. Raised in 
1847. Flowers in the summer months. Cul- 
ture. — Requires a stove, or to be raised in 
heat in spring, and flowered in a warm green- 
house ; hght vegetable soil; propagated by 
mcims of the scaly tubers. 
Phal^nopsis rosea, Lmdley (pink But- 
terfly-plant). — Orchidacese § Vandete-Sarcan- 
thidiB. — A very pretty epiphytal species, and 
a most interesting addition both to our gar- 
dens, and, botanically speaking, to the genus 
of which it forms a part. The plant is stem- 
less, with exactly the habit of the Ph. ama- 
hills. It is furnished with narrow-oblong 
leathery leaves, eight to twelve inches long, 
and sharp and recurved at the point. The 
flowers grow in a loose spike at the 'end of a 
stiff ascending lateral stalk ; this spike is 
sometimes said to be as much as from twelve 
to eighteen inches long. The flowers are 
individually small, but numerous, about an 
inch in diameter ; the sepals are spreading, 
oblong-lanceolate, and somewhat acute, the 
colour being white, slightly tinged with pink; 
the lip is deep violet or rose-colour red, as- 
cending, the central division ovate-acuminate, 
slightly lozenge-shaped, the lateral linear- 
spathulate, oblique and incurved. Native of 
Manilla. Introduced in 1848, by Messrs 
Veitch of Exeter. Flowers in September. 
Culture. — Requires a hot moist stove ; to be 
fastened on a block of wood and suspended ; 
propagated by dividing the plant. 
Nepenthes l^vis, Lindley (smooth Pit- 
cher-plant). — Nepenthacese. — An interesting 
addition to the family of pitcher-plants. It 
seems to be allied to the N. jyhyllumphora., 
but is perfectly distinct. The leaves are nar- 
row, leathery, and shining, wholly destitute of 
fringed teeth, or pubescence. The pitchers 
are from two to four inches long, inflated 
towards the base, and contracted about the 
mouth, and having a pair of narrow elevated 
crests, which are either fringed or naked ; the 
brim of the pitcher is very narrow and with- 
out ribs, the lid nearly circular, except at the 
base, which is cordate and spurred. Native of 
Java and Sincapore. Introduced in 1848, by 
Messrs. Yeitch of Exeter. Flowers ? Cul- 
ture. — Requires a hot moist stove ; very light 
turfy peat soil, almost entirely fibrous, inter- 
mixed with broken charcoal or potsherd ; 
propagated by cuttings. 
AcROPERA Batemanni, Lmdley (Mr. Bate- 
man's Acropera). — Orchidacese § Vande^e- 
Maxillarid^. — A distinct, but not very 
handsome, epiphytal species, with much the 
appearance of Acropera Loddigesii, but 
more robust. The flowers are pale yellow 
and spotted as in that species ; the lateral 
sepals are doubled backwards, so that the 
opposite sides of each nearly touch ; the petals 
are oblong with an awl-shaped point, and the 
apex of the lip is two-lobed, the divisions 
linear-obtuse, that is, the lip is " extended at 
the end into a double tongue." Native of 
Nicaraguay. Introduced in 1847. Flowers 
about August. Culture. — Requires a stove ; 
turfy peat soil ; propagated by division of the 
plant, 
Miltonia flava, Lindley (yellow-flowered 
Miltonia). — Orchidaceas § Vandeas-BrassidaB. 
A pretty epiphytal species. The leaves are 
not described. The flowers grow solitary on 
the stalks, which have two ranked boat-shaped 
sheaths ; they are yellow, and not unlike those of 
M.stellata,hi^Qn\\g in some technical matters. 
The sepals are linear-lanceolate, and acumi- 
nate ; tlie petals of the same form, but twice 
as broad ; the lip panduriforum or fiddle- 
shaped, slightly hairy, with a cordate-ovate 
end, and near the base an elevated ridge, 
which reaches half-way down the lip, and 
divides at the point into two short plates. 
Native of BraziL Introduced probably about 
1843. Flowers in July. Culture. — Requires 
a stove ; turfy peat soil ; propagated by di- 
vision of the plant. 
CLIMATE OF NEW HOLLAND. 
In the recently published number of the 
Horticultural Society's Journal,* Dr. Lindley 
has given some memoranda concerning the 
climate of New Holland, which it is probable 
will be found highly useful to cultivators. 
These memoranda are gleaned from the 
journal of Sir T. L. Mitchell, aided by an 
examination of that naturalist's collections 
and private notes. The general results are 
stated in a passage which we cannot refrain 
from quoting : — 
" The reader will doubtless be surprised to 
find how low a temperature was occasionally 
observed on this journey. In the end of 
April (our October) in latitude 28° S., within 
A\° of the Tropic, at an insignificant elevation, 
the thermometer stood at 26° at sun-rise, and 
was as low as 43° at nine p. m. ; nevertheless, 
the country produced wild Indigo, Mimosas, 
Casuarinas, arborescent Myrtleblooms, and 
Loranths. A degree nearer the Tropic in 
May (our November) the thermometer at 
sun-rise marked 20°, 19°. 18°, 17°, 16°, 12°, and 
on two separate days even 11° ! On the 22d 
of May the river mas frozen, and yet herbage 
was luxuriant, and the country produced 
Mimosas, Eucalypti, Acacias, the tropical 
Bottle-tree (Delabechea), a Calandrinia, and 
even a Loranth. On the 23d of May, the 
thermometer at sun-rise marking 12°, Acacia 
* Jounaal of the Horticultural Society, vol. iii. p. 232. 
