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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
each side of the mouth of the corolla. On a plant which pre¬ 
viously flowered (equally sent from Java by Mr. Thomas Lobb), 
Mr. Veitch observes the flowers to be deeper coloured; again. 
Professor Blume mentions a citron-coloured variety, with smaller 
flowers. It is, as its name implies, an inhabitant of Java. 
Blume discovered it on the mountain Salak; Dr. Horsfield, “ on 
the volcanic range extending through Java, at an elevation of 
4000 feet above the level of the sea.” Hence we are not surprised 
to learn from Mr. Veitch that it will succeed well under the mere 
shelter of a greenhouse, where, that able cultivator thinks, it may 
probably be brought to blossom all the year round.— Bot. Mag . 
4336. 
Trop^eoleyE. —Octandria Monogynia. 
Tropceolum umbellatum. One of the most remarkable of all 
the Tropceola, which have been characterised as bearing one - 
flowered peduncles ; here the flowers are umbellate, of a rich 
orange-red colour, tinged with green, and so copious as quite to 
overpower the foliage. For its first discovery the merit is due 
to Professor Jameson, of Quito, who gathered it on Pilzhum, a 
mountain to which, he observes, it is quite peculiar, at an ele¬ 
vation of 7000 feet. To Messrs. Veitch and Sons we owe its 
introduction to our gardens, through their collector Mr. W. 
Lobb, who probably collected it on the same spot as that above 
mentioned, and, from the nature of its locality, there can be little 
doubt it will prove to be among the most hardy of the genus. 
It flowered in the Exeter Nursery during the summer months 
of 1847. 
OrciiidaceyE. —Gynandria Monogynia. 
Bletia gebina (Lindley). This novelty is nearly related to 
B. Jiyacinthina , and, according to Messrs. Loddige’s catalogue, 
is a native of Japan. It is described in the ‘Journal of the 
Horticultural Society’ in the following terms: “ Leaves broad 
plaited, rising up the stem, from six to eight inches long, or more, 
and two inches wide ; the uppermost acuminate, the lowest ob¬ 
tuse. The flowers are about as large as Bletia hyacinthma , from 
six to eight in a spike, two inches and a half in diameter, nearly 
white, with a faint tinge of blush. The lip is pale, delicate 
