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Cattleya labiata, picta, Lindley. Blotched ruby-lipped Cattleya {Faxt. FI. Gard., i., t. 24) : 
Cattleya labiata, alba, Lindley. White ruby-lipped Cattleya {Faxt. FI. Gard., i., t. 24).—Xat. Ord., 
Orchidaceae § Epidendreae-Laeliadae. The above are two fine and distinct varieties of the well known C. labiata, 
from which, according to Dr. Lindley, C. Mossiae does not differ specifically; indeed, there are numerous imported 
varieties of this, as of some other orchids. The stems of these plants are between club-shaped and spindle-shaped ; 
the leaves oblong, solitary; the spathe as long as the peduncle ; the sepals linear-lanceolate, acute ; the petals 
much broader, wavy; the lip obovate, crisped, wavy, and emarginate. The var. picta has veiy large rosy lilac 
flowers, which are blotched with brighter rose ; the lip deep rich crimson, blotched towards the edge; grown by 
J. J. Blandy, Esq. The var. alba is white, except the lip, which is crimson, broken and blotched towards the margin, 
where it is white ; grown at Syon. From Brazil. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in summer. 
Gordonia javanica, Eollisson. Javanese Gordonia {Lot. May., t. 4539).—Xat. Ord., Temstromiaceae.—A 
branched, evergreen, stove shrub, with the aspect of a tea plant. The branches are terete, the leaves alternate, 
elliptic-lanceolate, leathery, and quite entire. The flowers grow singly on solitary peduncles, axillary from the 
base of most of the upper leaves, which peduncles bear two or three deciduous, spathulate, green bracts below the 
calyx; the flowers consist of five obovate, white petals, and are scarcely two inches in diameter. From Java : 
probably in the mountains. Introduced in 1848. Flowers in August and September. Messrs. Eollisson of Tooting. 
Portlandia platantha, Hooker. Broad-flowered Portlandia {Bot. May., t. 4534).—Xat. Ord., Cinchonaceae 
§ Cinchoneae.—A fine showy stove, evergreen, glabrous shrub, of erect branching habit. The leaves are large, 
opposite with very short stalks, elliptic-obovate, somewhat leathery, and of a full glossy green. The flowers grow 
singly on short stalks from the axils of the leaves, often opposite ; the calyx has four spreading, leafy, lanceolate 
lobes; the corolla is white, broadly and shortly funnel-shaped, approaching to bell-shaped; five-ribbed, with a 
limb of five spreading, ovate lobes, with revolute margins. It has been grown as a fine variety of P. grandiflora, 
but is distinct from that species; the flowers not being half the length, and much more freely produced. From the 
West Indies ? Introduced before 1850. Flowers all summer, “ almost always in blossom.” Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co., of Exeter. 
Rhododendron cinnamomeum, Cunninghami, Lindley. Cunningham’s White Ehododendron {Faxt. FI. 
Gard., i., t. 16).—Xat, Ord., Ericaceae § Rhododendreae.—A splendid hardy evergreen shrub, raised from E. cinna¬ 
momeum crossed with E. maximum. The flower heads are large, and the flowers pure white, beutifully contrast¬ 
ing with the dark purple spotting on the upper segment of the corolla. It is stated to be quite hardy. A garden 
hybrid, raised, about 1848, by Mr. Cunningham, of Liverpool. Flowers in May. 
Rhododendron pontictoi, Yervaeneantfm flore-pleno, Van Houtte. Yervaene’s double Ehododendron 
{Flore cles Serres, t. 492).—Xat. Ord., Ericaceae § Ehododendreae.—A fine hardy shrub, remarkable among the 
Rhododendrons for its semi-double blossoms, which are produced in large depressed dense pyramidal heads or 
corymbs ; the; colour is a pale lilac-purple, the upper segment of the corolla marked with scattered yellow spots. 
A Belgian garden variety of some merit. 
Dianthls critentus, Fischer. Blood-red Dianthus {Flore cles Serres, t. 488).—Xat. Ord., Caryophyllaceae § 
Sileneae.—A very pretty hardy perennial, very smooth except on the petals. The leaves are produced in crowded 
tufts, and are connate at the base, lanceolate-linear, drawn out to a long sharp point. The flowering stems are 
simple, from one to two feet high, terminated by a nearly globular contracted cyme, consisting of a crowded mass 
of bracts and flowers; the bracts scarious, rusty, and long pointed; the flowers about an inch across, consisting of 
five distinct, rhomboid, wedge-shaped, toothed petals, of a vivid carmine, having a few violet hairs at the base; 
the projecting stamens are of a greyish lead-colour. Supposed to come from Siberia, or the Caucasus. Intro¬ 
duced to Belgium, in 1849, from St. Petersburgh. Flowers in summer. M. Yan Houtte, of Ghent. 
Oncidifm sessile, Lindley. Sessile Oncid {Faxt. FI. Gard., i., t. 21).—Xat. Ord., Orchidaceae § Yandeae- 
Brassidae.—A pretty stove epiphyte, with oblong, compressed, pseudo-bulbs, which bear two strap-shaped, blunt, 
papery leaves, shorter than the scape, which bears a panicled raceme of flowers. These are yellow, very faintly 
spotted about the centre with pale cinnamon colour; the sepals and petals are conformable, oblong obtuse, all 
sessile, that is wanting the claw so generally characteristic of Oncids ; the lip is eared, dilated at the end, and 
retuse. From Santa Martha. Introduced in 1847. Flowers in spring. Duke of Xorthumberland. 
Lilium Wallichiantjm, Schultes. Dr. AYallich’s Lily {Faxt. FI. Gard., i., 120).—Xat. Ord., Liliacese § 
Tulipese.—Syn., L. longiflorum, TVallich.—A noble, hardy, bulbous perennial, growing with a tall slender stem 
(? three to four feet high), two-thirds of which are thickly furnished with long, narrow, linear leaves, the upper¬ 
most drawn out into a linear point. The flowers are large, eight inches in length, the tube long and narrow, 
gradually widening into the ample spreading limb ; they are creamy white and very fragrant: in the wild plants 
generally two or three at the top of the stems, but sometimes only one, as in the examples which have been bloomed 
in cultivation. It appears to be very near L. longiflorum. From the north of India : Almorah. Introduced, hy 
Major Madden, in 1850. Flowers towards the end of summer. Botanic Gardens, Belfast, and Glasnevin, Ireland. 
Hakea cttcullata, B. Brown. Cucullate-leaved Hakea {Bot. May., t. 4528).—Xat. Ord., Proteaceae § Fol- 
liculares.—An erect growing and ornamental evergreen greenhouse shrub, four or five feet in height, with round, 
pale brown, very downy branches, and large alternate leathery leaves, which are heart-shaped, or between kidney 
and heart-shaped; stalkless, concave, waved, and minutely toothed at the margin; the colour is glaucous green. 
The flowers grow in copious clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, and are seated in the hollow formed between 
