NEW AND RAKE PLANTS. 
ovate-lanceolate pointed imbricating bracts, which are of a bright rosy crimson, slightly tipped with green. 
From the Caraccas. Introduced to the Belgian gardens by M. Linden about 1848. Flowers in September. 
Ranunculus spicatus, Desfontaines. Spike-fruited Crowfoot. {Bot. Mag., t. 4585). — Nat. Ord., Ranuncu- 
lacese \ Eanunculece. — Syn., R. olyssiponensis, Persoon. — A rather common-looking hardy herbaceous plant, the 
roots consisting of a dense cluster of fusiform fleshy fibres or tubers along with many capillary roots. The stem 
grows a foot or more high, and is hirsute with soft spreading hairs ; the leaves also are hairy, the lower ones on 
long stalks roundish kidney-shaped, three or five lobed, the lobes wedge-shaped and incised. From one to six 
flowers are borne on a stem ; they are two inches broad, glossy yellow, with flabelliform orange-coloured spots 
at the base of each petal. From Algiers. Introduced in 1849 ? Flowers in April. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
Acacia viscidula, Bentham. Clammy-leaved Acacia (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 74). — Nat. Ord., Fabacea3 § 
Mimoseae-Acaciea?. — Syn., A. ixiophylla, of gardens. — A small very ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrub, of 
erect habit, having the slender branches clothed with linear phyllodes, which, as well as the branches, are covered 
with a glutinous secretion, the cracking of which, when dry, gives the edges a broken appearance. The globular 
heads of deep yellow flowers, produced on short stalks from the axils of the phyllodes, are often in pairs, but 
disunited. From New South Wales. Introduced in 1844. Flowers throughout the spring months. Horticul- 
tural Society of London. 
Calceolaria tetbagona. Bentham. Tetragonal Slipperwort {Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 70). — Nat. Ord., Scrophu- 
lariaceas § Antirrhinidece-Calceolarcie. — A pretty compact evergreen greenhouse bush, clothed with pale green 
broad oblong blunt entire leaves, three to four inches long, covered with a glutinous exudation. The flowers 
terminate the shoots, and grow in loose terminal corymbs ; they are large, pale yellow, with a large yellow green 
calyx, and pouch-shaped pale yellow corollas, having a squarish outline on the face. It will probably be useful 
as the parent of a race of more showy varieties, with a better habit than the florists' Calceolarias now in cultiva- 
tion, being truly shrubby, with good foliage, and quite distinct in character from any species in cultivation. 
From Peru. Introduced in 1849. Flowers in June. Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 
Bifrenaria Hadwenii, Lindley. Hadwen's Bifrenaria {Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., 67). — Nat. Ord., Orchidacea? \ 
Vandeas-Maxillaridse. — Syn., Scuticaria Hadwenii, of gardens. — A stove epiphyte, " with the appearance of a 
Brasavola;" the leaves from twelve to fourteen inches long. The flowers are solitary, about three inches in 
diameter when expanded, with the sepals and petals undulate and acuminated, dull nankeen colour, with broken 
brown bars, the lip resembling a slipper, paler, with rose-coloured streaks, hairy on the upper side, with a three- 
toothed crest on the centre. From Brazil. Introduced in 1850 ? Flowers in May. T. Brocklehurst, Esq., of 
Macclesfield. 
Pleione humilis, D. Bon. Humble Pleione [Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 51). — Nat. Ord., OrchidaceaB § Epiden- 
drere-Coelogynidse. — Syn., Epidendrum humile, Smith ; Cymbidium humile, Smith ; Coelogyne humilis, Lindley. — 
A beautiful little Alpine epiphyte, with flask-shaped furrowed pseudo-bulbs which flower when the leaves are 
absent. The peduncles are clothed with petaloid bracts longer than the ovary, but afterwards shrivelling and 
drawing back, leaving the peduncle naked. The flowers are tinted with pale lilac, the lip with a broad margin of 
red spots ; the sepals and petals are linear lance-shaped, spreading ; the lip hooded emarginate, fringed at the 
edge, the base with six distant fringed veins. From Northern India ; Khasijah hills, at 7000 feet elevation. 
Introduced by Mr. T. Lobb, in 1850. Flowers in spring. Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 
Cattleya pallida, Lindley. Pallid Cattleya (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 48). — Nat. Ord., Orchidacese § Epiden- 
drese-Lseliadse. — A handsome stove epiphyte, with long furrowed pseudo-bulbs, each bearing one oblong very 
blunt emarginate leaf. The flowers are solitary from a very large spathe, and are large and showy, a good deal 
resembling some of the pale varieties of C. labiata. The sepals are lanceolate, the petals oblong, wavy, four times 
as broad as the sepals ; all these very pale, nearly white. The lip is oblong emarginate, rather wavy, and hooded 
a little way at the base ; there is a broad obcordate patch of yellow in the centre of the lip, the rest of the lip 
being pink. From Tepic, in the west of Mexico. Introduced by Mr. Hartweg, in 1846. Flowers in July. 
Horticultural Society of London. 
Ataccia cristata, Kunth. Crested Ataccia (Bot. Mag., t. 4589). — Nat. Ord., Taccaeece. — Syn., Tacca integri- 
folia of gardens ; T. cristata, Jack; T. Rafflesiana, Jack. — A curious stove herbaceous plant, with a few oblong 
dark purple-green leaves, and a scape about equalling them in length, terminated by a drooping umbel of brown 
purple flowers, with an involucre of two short spreading bracts, and two erect leaf -like ones rising above the 
flowers, from amongst which hang several long tendril-like threads, which are sterile peduncles. From the Malay 
Islands. Introduced ? Flowers in May. 
Achimenes viscida, Lindley. Clammy Achimenes (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 59). — Nat. Ord., Gesneracea? § Ges- 
nerere. — Syu., Cheirisanthera atrosanguinea, of gardens. — A rather pretty stove herbaceous plant, growing erect, 
from two to three feet high, covered all over with clammy hairs. The leaves are opposite, ovate oblong, with 
erenated margins ; from their axils come the few-flowered cymes of tubular blossoms, of a deep crimson, with a 
white throat. Native country not known. Introduced from the Continental gardens in 1850. Flowers most 
part of the year. 
Rosa Fortuniana, Lindley. Fortune's Rose (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 71). — Nat. Ord., Rosacea? § Rosidse. — A 
i) hardy evergreen shrub of little beauty, related to the Bauksian Rose. It is a scrambling shrub, with slender 
, -W branches, armed with small falcate prickles ; the leaves ternate or quinate, with ovate-lanceolate sharply serrated 
