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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
alternate, and coriaceous ; the flowers are thickly crowded in the 
axils of the leaves, chiefly from the underside of the spreading 
branches, but with an inclination upwards. The pedicles appear 
at first sight to be in fascicles and single flowered; but if closely 
examined, they will be found to be arranged in short racemes, 
each with a small bracteal scale at its base ; the corolla is ovate, 
white, semi-pellucid, waxy, slightly tinged with green and blush ; 
the mouth contracted, and the limb of fine, short, spreading teeth. 
It is from the high mountains of Jamaica. The flowers are co¬ 
piously produced in June and July in a cool frame, and are fra¬ 
grant with a honey-like scent. The plant merely requires to be 
kept from the frost in winter.— Bot. Mag. 4273. 
Es cALLONiACEiE .—Pentandria Monogynia. 
Escallonia organensis (Gardner). A lovely shrub, which will 
probably prove hardy, first detected in the Organ mountains by 
Mr. Gardner, and about the same time by Mr. William Lobb, 
whose seeds, sent to Mr. Yeitch, produced the plant from which 
this representation is taken. The stem and branches are of a 
rich red brown, extending to the calyx ; the leaves have their 
midrib in part, and the serrated margins red, and the petals are 
deep rose-colour; the flowers are borne on a terminal cymose 
panicle, and are very beautiful.— Bot. Mag. 4274. 
OrchidacEtE. —Gynandria Monandria. 
Odontoglossum hastilabium (Lindley). A truly lovely orchi- 
deous plant, wholly new to our living collections. Sent to Kew 
by Mr. Purdie, who gathered it in woods on the route from Santa 
Martha to the Sierra Nivada. Linden detected it in the province 
of Pamplona, at an elevation of 2500 feet. The flowers are 
numerous on the raceme, large, handsome, elegantly varied with 
pale green, purple, and white, and moreover highly fragrant. 
The pseudo-bulbs are oblong, compressed, ribbed, pale green, 
and while young are sheathed by the bases of two leaves ; two 
other leaves spring from the summits of the pseudo-bulbs ; these 
are linear, oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, and without strise; the 
sepals and petals are lanceolate, pale green, and with copious 
transverse purple dots or lines ; the lip is large, three-lobed, the 
two lateral lobes forming two horns at the base ; the intermediate 
