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Catasetoi Lansbergii, Lindleg. Lansberg's Cataseturu (Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 156). — Nat. ord., Orchidaceas, § 
Vandece-Catasetidae. — Syn., Myanthus Lansbergii, Reinwardt and De Yriese. — A terrestrial store orchid, very 
near to, if not tbe sanie as, C. callosuni, from which according to Dr. Lindley, it can scarcely be distinct as a 
species. It has long ovate racemes of from thirteen to twenty flowers, which are green, spotted with purple, and 
not whole coloured as in C. callosum. From the Caraecas. Introduced to the Botanic Garden at Leyden. Flowers 
in autumn. 
Burlixgtoxia pubescens, ZincUey. Downy-leaved Burlingtonia {Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 158). — Nat. Ord., 
Orchidaceaa § Vaudeee-Ionopsidce. — A beautiful dwarf stove epiphyte, stemless, with dark green coriaceous rigid 
leaves, growing in broad tufts, and bearing a profusion of short dense drooping racemes of rather small white 
flowers, which have a downy column, an obovate two-lobed shortly hastate lip, marked with three yellow ridges 
on each side near the base, and a pair of erect side lobes, which give it the hastate form. From Pernam- 
buco. Introduced originally by Messrs. Loddiges, before 1846; and subsequently by J. Knowles, Esq., of 
Manchester. Flowers in autumn. 
Primula capitata, Hooker. Round-headed mealy Primrose (Hot. Mag. t. 4550). — Nat. Ord., Prirnulacea; 
§ Primulidse. — A very pretty and distinct-looking nearly hardy herbaceous plant, with a rough roundish root- 
stock, from which proceed numerous radical leaves four or five inches long, oblong lanceolate, rather obtuse, and 
denticulated, rugose above, farinose beneath. The scape is about a foot long, mealy, terminated by a dense 
globose head of perfectly sessile flowers, the limb of which, about a quarter of an inch across, is deep purple on 
the upper face, paler beneath ; they are faintly fragrant, but this is, in part at least, owing to the " farinaceous 
substance of the leaves and flowers." It is impatient of water overhead, and needs the protection afforded to 
other delicate Alpine Primulas. From India : Lachen, Sikkim-Hinialaya, one of the passes into Thibet, ten 
thousand feet elevation. Introduced in 1S49 by Dr. Hooker. Flowers " in October," probably at other periods. 
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
TTngxadia speciosa, Fndlichcr. Showy Ungnadia, or Spanish Buckeye [Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 153). — Nat. Ord. 
Sapindaeca) $ Hippocastanea;. — Syn., U. heterophylla, Schcelv. — A slender hardy deciduous shrub, commonly 
growing from five to ten, rarely twenty feet high, with many long stems branching only at top. It has digitate 
leaves, the leaflets ranging from five (or even three in the earlier leaves) to seven in number. The flowers 
which are rose-coloured, have sometimes four, sometimes five petals. Nearly related to the Pavias. The fruit is 
sweet and pleasant, but, according to Lmdheimer, emetic. From Texas. Introduced? . Not yet flowered. 
Oxyspora vagaxs, Wallich. Weak-stemmed Oxyspora (Pot. Mag. t. 4553). — Nat. Ord., Melastomaceae 
\ Mclastonicre. — Syn., Melastoma rugosa, Roxburgh. — A loosely-branched subscandent stove shrub, with obscurely 
four-angled stems, bearing ovate or cordate-ovate acuminate leaves, five to seven nerved, and smooth above. The 
flowers grow in terminal drooping panicles, often a foot long and very graceful, bearing on the many-forked 
branches numerous bright rose-coloured four-petalled flowers, from which project four long purple and as many 
short pale-coloured stamens ; the flowers are about an inch in expansion. From India : hilly country bordering 
on the plains in the approach to Darjeeling. Introduced in 1849, by Dr. Hooker. Flowers in autumn. Royal 
Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Epidexdrvm loxgipetaloi, Liudltg. Long-potalled Epidendrum [Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. t. 30). — Nat. Ord., 
Orchidacese { Epidcndrex-Lxliadtc. — Syn., E. aromaticum, var. of some gardens. — An interesting stove epiphyte, 
with ovate pseudo-bulbs, straight blunt sword-shaped leaves growing in pairs, and long loose panicles of dull 
brownish purple flowers, which however are very sweet-scented; the sepals and petals are nearly alike in form, 
spathulatc. brownish purple, with a green margin; the lip threc-lobed, the segments rounded, the lateral ones 
erect, the central larger convex, notched and wavy, with eU-vated crimson radiating veins on a yellow ground; 
the rest of tin lip white. From Guatimala. Introduced about 1848. Flowers iu summer. Horticultmal 
Society of London. 
Feini.MiiuM vuiF.Ns, l.iiullrij. fireen Epidendrum (Paxt. Fl. Gard. i., 152). — Nat. ord., Orchidacesa 
j Epidendrete-LssliadEe. — A stove epiphyte, allied to E. longipetalum. The flowers grow in loose nam™ ereci 
panicles, and have linear oblong sepals and spathulatc petals of a green colour, and a lip of three nearly equal 
lobes, the lateral ones erect, green, with crimson veins, white at the point, the central one convex, plaited, white 
with crimson veins. From Guatimala. Introduced ? . 
Cextiiosoi.kma glabra, Bmtham. Glabrous-leaved Centrosolenia [Bot. Wag., t. 1552).— Nat Ord., Gesner- 
nccrc \\ licsncrca'. A ralher pretty erect-growing scini-cpiphytal herbaceous stove plant, with succulent reddish- 
brown steins, bearing smooth succulent leaves, which arc opposite, each pair being singularly unequal in si/.', 
one being small lanceolate-acuminate, the other large ovate, tapering to both extremities, the margins Berrated, 
The (lowers arc aggregated in the axils of the lower leaves, on ahorl stalks ; the corolla tubular an nob and a half 
long, downy externally, projecting below into a short obtuse spur, enlarged upwards, and dividing into a limb of 
five broad short lobes, of which the three lower arc fringed with long thread-like lacinisa; they have a yellow 
throat From LaGuayra. Introduced aboul 1848 by M. Wagener, a German collector, Flowers through the 
autumnal and early winter months. Royal Botanic Garden, Kow. . 
Tiu.wosi v luanini, lindlmj. Red-bracted Tillandsio • ■ , ; |60). Not Ord., BromoliacetB. TX 
