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NEW ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS. 
There is a lofty wall at White Knights, 
covered with Magnolia Grandiflora, planted 
when each tree cost twenty guineas, at least 
so it is said. Certainly, there is nothing sur- 
passes a fine specimen of the Magnolia Gran- 
diflora in full bloom, whether we look at its 
noble flowers, its beautiful foliage, or its habit 
of growth ; and, though it is out of place here, 
the deciduous are as excellent in their way, as 
the evergreens are in theirs. Many other Ever- 
greens might be mentioned, but we have con- 
fined ourselves to subjects adapted for the home 
plantations, genera and species calculated to 
lay out a first-rate place; others there are, and 
where it is desirable to grow large numbers of 
kinds, without regard to quality or appearance, 
they may be used ; but for striking effect, great 
contrast, and richness of foliage, arising out of 
well-displayed contrasts, the various kinds 
mentioned are all we should care about for a 
first-rate place of our own planting. 
NEW ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, 
INTRODUCED OR MADE KNOWN DURING THE YEAR 
1844. 
The sketch which is given above, repre- 
sents the dwarf and interesting Cattleya 
Pumila; and it is given with the view of 
explaining more fully the terms which are 
unavoidably used in describing the different 
parts of the flowers of these singular, and in 
most cases handsome plants. The sepals (a) 
are the outer leaves of the flower; the petals 
(b), and the lip, or labellum (c), form an inner 
series, which are normally placed so as to 
occupy the intervening spaces between the 
sepals; attached to the lip are what is called 
the column and the pollen masses, but these 
being purely of botanical interest, we omit to 
notice any further. The pseudo-bulb (d), or [ 
leaf-stem, is not always present, but the ma- 
jority of the species are so furnished; some 
of the kinds have a stem thickly clothed with 
leaves, and others have long club-like stems, 
from which, in some instances, leaves are 
borne the first season, and flowers afterwards; 
the flower-stems are not always produced 
from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, but in 
some species from their summit; and in some, 
two or three leaves are produced to each 
bulb. The flower-stem has several designa- 
tions, according to its character: a scape is 
when the flower-stem rises direct from the 
root; a raceme, or spike, is a kind of simple 
arrangement, in which each single flower is 
attached by a small stalk to the principal one; 
a panicle is a more compound and loosely 
arranged head of blossoms. With these brief 
(and on that account imperfect) explanations, 
we hope the merest tyro will be able to gain 
some idea of the plants from the following 
descriptions. When not otherwise mentioned 
they require stove heat. 
JErides Maculosum, Lindley. (Spotted- 
flowered Air-plant.) — A native of Bombay, 
with a leafy stem. The flowers are in a raceme; 
individually of a light ground colour, with nu- 
merous spots, and the lip is blotched with pur- 
ple: they are said to be sweet scented. 
Angk<ecum Pellucidum, Lindley. (Trans- 
parent Angrsecum.) — This bears the charac- 
teristic features of the Air-plants; it has a 
stem furnished with long, narrowish, curving 
leaves, and bears long drooping spikes of white 
flowers, which, although small, are sufficiently 
numerous, and of such delicate and transparent 
snowy whiteness, as to be really handsome 
when closely examined. It was imported 
from Sierra Leone, by Messrs. Loddige, with 
whom it has lately flowered. 
Anguloa Clowesii, Lindley. (Mr. Clowes' 
Anguloa.) — A very rare plant, and possessing 
many attractions for those who have a taste 
for Orchidea?. It is pseudo-bulbous ; the 
leaves are broad and stiff, and the flowers, of 
a peculiar hood-like construction, are clear 
lemon -yellow, with a white lip; they are four 
inches in diameter, and produced singly on a 
stalk of medium length, proceeding from the 
root. It has been obtained from Colombia, 
and has been flowered by the Rev. J. Clowes, 
of Manchester. 
Anguloa Uniflora, Ruiz and Pavon. 
(One-flowered Anguloa.) — This is a rather 
coarse-looking, few-flowered, pseudo-bulbous 
plant, not likely to interest any one besides 
botanists; to them, however, on account of 
its rarity, it is extremely interesting. It has 
broad, lance-shaped, upright leaves ; and 
the flower scapes bear each one large, hood- 
like, greenish-white flower, which is slightly 
tinged with yellow. It was received from 
