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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
NEW AXD RAEE PLANTS. 
CtEAM5IjVXThes GEiTLLN"oiDES, Dc Candolk. Gen- 
tian-like Gi-ammanthes. (Fluya, \., t. 518.) — Xat. Ord.. 
CrassulaceiE, § CrassuleEe. — Syn., Crassula gentianoides, 
Lamarcl:. — A pretty, dwarf, greenhouse, lialf-hardy 
annual, with white brittle stems a few inches high, 
and blunt, oblong, succulent leaves. The flowers are 
numerous, in hemispherical clusters, three-quarters of 
an inch in diameter, salmon-coloured, stained in the 
centre in the form of a letter V. — From the Cape 
of Good Hope ; introduced in 1849. Flowers in 
summer. 
Mtaxthts flmbeiatus, Jlorren. Fringe-flowered 
Myanthus. — Nat. Ord., OrcHdaees, § Taudeaj-Catase- 
tidtc. — A curious and very beautiful stove epiphyte. It 
has ovate, elongated pseudo-bulbs, producing lance- 
shaped, plaited leaves. The flowers grow in drooping 
racemes, on scapes issuing from the base of the pseudo- 
bulbs ; the sepals are uaixow, lance-shaped ; the petals 
broader and shorter ; the lip heart-shaped, fringed round 
the margin, produced behind into a blunt spur; the 
petals arc connivent with the upper sepal. The petals 
and sepals are of a pale, rosy, purplish hue, speckled 
with red spots ; the lip creamy white, suffused with 
rose, in the variety Heynderycxii ; in another variety — 
Legrellii — the colours are green and white. — From 
Brazil : marshes near the Yilla Franca, province of St. 
Paiil ; introduced to Belgium in 1847. Flowers towards 
autumn. M. de Jonghe, of Brussels. 
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DrPTEiLiCiXTHrs SPECTAEIIJS, Hoo/cer. Showy- 
flowered Dipteracanth. {Sot. Mag., t. 4494.) — Nat. 
Ord., Acanthaceae,^ Eehmatacanthi-Euelliese. — A showy 
sub-shrubby stove plant, of herbaceous aspect, growing 
two feet or more in height, with numerous foirr-angled 
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stems and branches, bearing opposite, nearly sessile, 
ovate-acuminate leaves, which are ciliated, and slightly 
pubescent. The flowers, which are nearly or quite 
sessile, grow two together from the axils of the ujipcr 
leaves ; they have a funnel-shaped curved tube, and a 
purple-blue veined limb, more than two inches across, 
of five round spreading erenate lobes, the two upper 
ones smaller. — From the Andes of Peru ; introduced, in 
1848, by Jlr. W. Lobb. Flowers at the latter end of 
summer. Messrs. Yeitch and Son. 
Phoudota clvpeata, Zindlc-y. Clypeate Pholidota. 
{Joiirn. Sort. Sac, v., 37.) — Nat. Ord., Orehidacete, § 
Epidendrete-CcElogynida;. — A stove epiphyte, resem- 
bling P. imbricata. The pseudo-bulbs are two inches 
long, bearing a dark green leaf, and brown and white 
flowers, in a spike about three inches long ; the column 
is like a three-lobed petal, bordered with brown, and 
gives the flowers the appearance of having two opposite 
lips. — Said to be from Borneo ; introduced in 1847. 
Flowei's in winter. Sir. Low, of Clapton. 
TiiiCH0CEXTRr3i TExrXFLORUM, ZinSleij. Slender- 
flowered Trichoeentmm. {Paxt. Fl. Gard., i., 12.)— Nat. 
Ord., Orchidaces, § Vandeae-Ionopsidos. — An iminter- 
esting stove epiphyte, of which the pseudo-bulbs and 
leaves are undescribed. The flowers are small, dingy 
brown, and white, with linear sepals and petals, and an 
almost linear obovate Kp. — From Brazil : Bahia ; in- 
troduced to Paris, about 1848, by M. MoreL Flowers 
in January. 
