DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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parts sandy loam and one part leaf-mould, and allowed plenty 
of pot-room; being of the easiest possible culture, and a perfectly 
hardy greenhouse plant, it is likely to be extensively cultivated.” 
— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
OrciiidacEjE. —Gynandria Monandria. 
Stanhopea inodor a. A species imported from Mexico by Messrs. 
Loddiges, and flowered by them in 1843. It may be stated to 
have the inflorescence of S. insignis , the form of S. graveolens, 
and the colour of S. saccata , without its dots. If S. insignis in¬ 
habited the same country as S. graveolens , one might fancy the 
S. inodor a to be a mule between the two. It has nearly white 
flowers, the sepals and petals being slightly stained with yellow; 
and the lip is white, except near the base, where it is bright 
yellow, with two faint spots of crimson in the interior.— Bot. Beg. 
65—45. 
Govenia fasciata. One of the prettiest of the genus, whose 
sepals and petals are beautifully marked by fine broken bands of 
crimson upon a clear yellow ground. The long bracts, thin nar¬ 
row spike of flowers, and oblong lip, are the marks by which it « 
is best recognized. The leaves are about a foot long and three 
inches wide. It was found by Mr. Linden, in July 1812, in the 
damp forests of Venezuela, at a height of 5000 feet above the 
sea, and was flowered by Mr. Rucker in 1843. — Bot. Beg. 
67—45. 
Lcelia peduncularis. The flowers of this species are of one uni¬ 
form deep rose-colour, a little heightened at the lower part of the 
lip, and they droop gracefully from the endof a slender elastic scape. 
The unusually long peduncles add to its elegant appearance. 
It approaches most nearly to the Laelias rubescens and acuminata. 
From the former it differs in its lip having none of the hairiness 
of that species, and its flowers being much more closely arranged; 
from the latter, in neither its petals nor lip being wavy and 
sharp-pointed; and from both, in its very large whole-coloured 
flowers, flat jagged petals, short recurved lip-lobes, and very long 
flower-stalks. 
It was introduced from Mexico about the year 1841, by Mr. 
Barton, of Birmingham.— Bot. Beg. 69—45. 
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