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turns freely for the examination of its contents, or for presenting 
its several sides in succession to the light. It is called the re¬ 
volving tank, audits appearanco is extremely elegant.—S. H. 
CYTLOBOTHRA MONOPHYLLA. 
Brought home by Mr. Hartweg, in June, 184-8, and said 
t o have been collected upon the Sacramento Mountains, where 
it is very scarce. 
A bulbous plant, with a long coarse membraneous neck, 
extending three or four inches under ground. Stem three or 
four inches high, slender, bearing a single linear-lanceolate leaf, 
glaucous on the under side, and about three times its own 
length. The flowers are from two to three in a corymb, with 
curved peduncles, longer than the very narrow bracts ; they 
are smaller than is usual in the genus, and of a uniform bright 
yellow. The sepals are ovate, and very sharply pointed ; the 
petals are of a similar figure, but not so acute, and are covered 
with coarse hairs. 
It is a hardy little bulb, which requires the same kind of 
treatment as Calochortuses. It should be grown in a light 
soil, composed of sandy peat, loam, and leaf mould, with 
plenty of sand. It is increased by offsets from the old bulb. 
The proper place for it is an American border, where it should 
be left undisturbed.— {Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
MILTONIA KARWINSKII. 
Received from Mr. Hartweg, and supposed to have been 
collected at Oaxaca, in 1839. 
This beautiful plant was originally described from a small 
dried specimen, brought from Mexico, by Count Karwinski; 
and was then referred successively to the genera Cyrtochilum 
and Oncidium : it is, however, a true Miltonia, and one of the 
finest plants in cultivation. Imagine a rod three feet long, 
stiff, and nearly upright, being covered for three parts of its 
length, at intervals of an inch and a half, with large, gay, white, 
purple, yellow, and brown flowers, fully two inches and a half 
in diameter; and an idea will be formed of this charming 
species. The sepals and petals are bright yellow, barred and 
spotted with brown ; the lip is white at the point, deep 
violet at the base, and blush in the middle space. The 
column is nearly white, and adorned by two serrated hatchet- 
shaped wings. 
It requires to be treated like an Oncidium, and to be grown 
in rather a cool temperature, in pots filled with fibry peat, 
and half-decayed leaves, well drained. 
It is one of the most beautiful and distinct Orchids in culti¬ 
vation.— {Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
iESCHYNANTHUS PAXTONI. 
Received from Messrs. Henderson, of the Wellington 
Nursery, St. John’s-wood Road. 
This plant, which bears in gardens the name of iEschynan- 
thus Paxtoni, does not appear to have been described. It has 
a large convex, dark green even leaves, which are slightly 
marked on the under side with impressed dots. The bracts 
are of unusual size, thin, pale green, slightly stained with red. 
The sepals are remarkably large and broad, and are divided to 
the very base. The flowers are dull red, with a flat limb, 
divided into four nearly equal lobes, which are square at the 
end, as if they had been cut off. It seems to be most nearly 
allied to JEsch. ramosissimus and Griffithii. 
A tr ailin g half-shrubby stove plant, growing freely in any 
light mixture, such as leaf-mould and broken crocks, with 
plenty of drainage. It also may be grown fastened to a rough 
block of wood, and surrounded with moss. It requires a 
moist atmosphere while in a growing state ; but afterwards 
should be kept nearly dry. It is easily increased by cuttings. 
It is a showy kind, but not so handsome as the smaller 
species.— {Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
NOTES FROM THE CONTINENT.—No. 17. 
FOLIAGE BEDS. 
When we speak of plants grown for their fine foliage, an 
Englishman’s ideas usually fly away to his stoves and green¬ 
houses ; but many of the inhabitants of these are, in Ger- 
