m^u. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Thibaudia macrantha, Hooker. Large-flowered Thibaudia {Bot. MagA. 4566). — Nat. Ord., Vaceuriacese. — A 
beautiful, but rather straggling evergreen stove shrub, -with entire, smooth leaves on short thick footstalks. The 
flowers are extra-axillary, two 
or three together ; the stalks 
thickened upwards, and coloured 
red ; they are large, upwards of 
two inches long, and an inch in 
diameter, pendent, with a small 
pale yellow calyx and flask-shaped 
five-angled porcelain-like corolla, 
contracted at the mouth, with the 
narrow segments of the limb re- 
flexed, and the stamens and style 
protruded ; the colour is " china 
white, yellow at the base and 
apex," the spaces between the 
angles marked with numerous 
distinct wavy red lines, generally 
taking the shape of the letter V. 
It is stated to be of easy cultiva- 
tion, and to have flowered when 
not more than two feet high. 
Mr. Smith of Kew suggests that 
it will probably succeed in a 
close warm greenhouse. From 
Kola mountain, Moulmein. In- 
troduced by Mr. T. Lobb about 
1848. Flowers in winter. Messrs. 
Veitch of Exeter. 
Pleione laoenabja, Lindley. 
Bottle Pleione (Paxt. Mag., ii. t. 
39). — Nat. Ord., Orchidacete 
§ Epidendreffi-Ccelogynidce. — A 
beautiful little epiphytal stove 
plant, with flask-shaped pscudo- 
2. Pleione lagenaria. 
bulbs and lovely flowers issuing from a bract, which is 
hooded, acute, and much tapered to the base. The sepals 
and petals, which are linear-lanceolate and acute, are of 
a pretty rosy-lilac colour, as is the exterior of the rounded 
entire emarginate rolled-in lip, the inner surface of which 
at the margin is streaked with carmine on a white ground, 
and towards the centre is yellow, marked w r ith five crested 
lines. From the Alps of India. Introduced by Mr. T. 
Lobb in 1849. Flowers in autumn. "The secret of 
" ' '" ^SHBSWKPWP^^-' '' their successful cultivation in England lies in keeping 
them cool and dry when at rest, and forcing them with heat, moisture, and bright light, as long as they are 
inclined to grow." Messrs. Teitch of Exeter. 
