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spike of flowers issuing from the centre of 
the leaves, and growing five or six feet high ; 
the flowers are white, and consist of six long 
narrow segments, each breaking out from be- 
hind a large scarlet bract, the spike of 
bracts being the most conspicuous part of the 
plant. A native of South America. Intro- 
duced in 1845 (?). Flowers in February and 
March. Puya Altensteinii is the proper 
name of the plant known in gardens as JPit- 
cairnea tmdulati folia. Culture. — Requires a 
stove ; peat and loam ; propagated by division 
of the plant. (181) 
Rosa anemon^eflora, Linclley (anemone- 
flowered rose). — Rosacea? § Rosidas. — A pretty 
shrub, with smooth branching stems, and tri- 
foliolate leaves, the leaflets of which are almost 
lance-shaped, and sharply serrated ; the flowers 
grow in somewhat globular clusters ; they are 
not individually very large, nor remarkable 
in colour, being pale blush, but the five 
outer petals are broad, while the centre is 
filled in by a quantity of smaller petals, in 
the same way as the blossoms of a double 
anemone. It is related to the musk-roses. 
A native of China. Introduced in 1845. 
Flowers in June and July. Culture. — Hardy ; 
rich, loamy soil ; propagated by cuttings, or 
layers. (182) 
Htpoctrta leucostoma, Hooker (white- 
mouthed Hypocyrta). — Gesneraceas § Ges- 
nerese. — A pretty, sub-shrubby plant, with 
erect, downy stems, and opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate, downy leaves, from the axils of 
which are produced numerous nodding, tube- 
shaped, downy flowers, of an orange colour, 
white at the extremity, where it is divided 
into five roundish segments ; the lower side of 
the tube is much inflated. A native of New 
Granada. Introduced in 1846. Flowers in 
April. Culture. — Requires a stove ; loam 
and peat ; propagated by cuttings planted in 
sandy soil in a hot bed. Q83) 
Echinocactus hex^edrophorus, Lemaire 
(hexsedron Echinocactus). — Cactaceas § Echi- 
nocactidae. — A pretty species of the dwarf 
Cacti. The plant is sub-globose, or top- 
shaped, flattened at top, divided into large six- 
sided, depressed, glaucous, green, mammilla?, 
arranged in spiral lines, with deep furrows 
between, and each bearing a cluster of from 
four to seven reddish-brown subulate spines, 
varying in length from half an inch to nearly 
an inch. Two or three flowers are produced 
from the crown of the plant ; they are white ; 
the petals being streaked with rose on the out- 
side, and yellow at the base ; the stamens are 
yellow, and in the centre is a stigma of from 
nine to eleven white spreading rays. A native 
of Tampioca. Introduced before 1840. 
Flowers in June. Culture. — Requires a green- 
house ; loam and brick rubbish ; propagated 
by destroying the crown, when offshoots are 
produced, or by seeds. (184) 
Achimenes ctjpreata, Hooker (coppery- 
leaved Achimenes). — Gesneracea? § Gesnereas. 
— A very distinctly habited, trailing species, 
with long stoloniferous rooting stems ; the 
leaves are opposite, hairy, elliptic-obtuse, 
deeply net-veined, rather glossy, and dark 
coppery green above, purplish beneath ; the 
flowers are rather small, with a slender curved 
tube, and a limb of five rounded dentate-ciliate 
spreading segments of a bright scarlet colour. 
A native of moist banks near Sona, New Gra- 
nada. Introduced in 1845. Flowers in April 
and May. Culture. — Requires a stove, or 
warm greenhouse ; light rich loam ; propagated 
by cuttings either of the stems or leaves, or by 
its scaly tubers. (185) 
Anguloa Clowesii, var. flava (yellow- 
lipped Anguloa). — Orchidaceae § Vandeae- 
Maxiliaridas. — A handsome epiphytal plant, 
with oblong, pseudo-bulbs, broadly lance- 
shaped leaves, and large, pouch-like blossoms, 
rising singly on short stalks from the base of 
the pseudo-bulbs ; the flowers are of a uniform 
pale yellow, except the middle lobe of the lip, 
which is orange coloured. A native of South 
America. Introduced in 1845. Flowers in 
May. Culture. — Requires a hot, moist stove ; 
turfy peat ; propagated by division. (186) 
.ZEschynanthus speciosus, Hooker (showy 
^Eschynanth). — Gesneraceaa § Cyrtandreas- 
Didymocarpidas. — A most beautiful epiphytal 
plant, and one of the handsomest of its 
handsome group. It is a small shrubby or 
sub-shrubby plant, with branches about two 
feet long, furnished with opposite (sometimes 
tern ate) ovate lanceolate leaves, with an acu- 
minated point, obscurely sei'ra-ted margin, and 
of very fleshy texture. The flowers grow in 
terminal fascicles of from ten to twenty, 
beneath which is a whorl of from four to 
eight leaves ; they are slightly downy, be- 
tween three and four inches long, club shaped, 
curved at the extremity, full orange, with the 
upper part scarlet ; the inside is orange, and 
each of the lobes of the corolla has a crescent- 
shaped black line separating this colour from 
the scarlet. A native of Java, where it was 
found attached to the trunks of forest trees, 
on Mount Asapan, near Bantam. Introduced 
in 1845. Flowers in April and May, and 
probably at other periods. Allied to JE. 
longijlorus. Culture. — Requires a hot moist 
stove ; to be planted in turfy peat soil, or 
attached to a block of wood ; propagated by 
cuttings in sand, in a hot-bed. (187) 
Burlingtonia grajvadensis, Lindley 
(New Granada Burlingtoma). — Orchidacea? 
§ Vandeas-Ionopsida?. — A fine epiphytal 
plant, with oblong acute fleshy leaves, and 
erectish racemes of about five white (or in a 
