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lobed leaves,, and bearing horizontal lateral racemes of white flowers, of which the sepals, petals, and lip, are 
almost alike in form, linear taper-pointed and reflexed, and the spur is a tapering blunt horn much longer than 
the lip. From the Albany district of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced in 1850, by Messrs. Yeitch of Exeter. 
Blossoms in July.— Paxton’s Flower Garden , ii. 120. 
Angbjectjm monodon, Findley. One-toothed Angrsecum.—Order Orchidaceae (Orchid tribe).—An inconspicuous, 
stove epiphyte, having roundish oblong distichous leaves obliquely two-lobed; and bearing narrow many- 
flowered racemes of small reddish flowers, having somewhat the smell of horse chestnut seeds. The sepals and 
petals are ovate-acute, the lip roundish with a single small erect tooth in front of the opening into the spur. 
From Gabon in Africa, whence it was introduced to European gardens about 1849, by Mr. Pescatore of Paris.— 
Paxton’s Flower Garden , ii. 102. 
Zamia Lindleyi, Warczewitz. Dr. Lindley’s Zamia.—Order Cycadacese (Cycad tribe).—A remarkable stove 
shrub, having a cylindrical trunk, six to seven feet high, which bears a tuft of narrow equally-pinnated leaves, 
consisting of many pairs of linear sharp pointed acuminate entire leaflets, and having hispid petioles. From the 
Cordillera of Yeragua, at an elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet, and introduced to continental gardens by M. 
Warczewitz, about 1850. —Allgemeine Gartenzeitung. 
Zamia Skinneri, Warczewitz. Mr. Skinner’s Zamia.—Order Cycadacese (Cycad tribe).—This remarkable 
stove shrub has. a trunk from four to six feet high, tapering upwards, and bearing a tuft of broad equally-pinnated 
leaves, consisting of many pairs of elliptic-lanceolate leaflets, which are acute at each end, serrated near the 
point, and have hispid petioles. From the Cordillera of Yeragua, at from 5000 to 7000 feet elevation. Intro¬ 
duced to the continental gardens by M. Warczewitz, about 1850.— Allgemeine Gartenzeitung. 
Dendrobium clavattjm, Wallich. Club-stemmed Dendrobe.—Order Orchidaceae (Orchid-tribe).—This beautiful 
summer-blooming stove epiphyte is one of the handsomest of the orange Dendrobes. It has terete pendulous 
stems a foot and a half to two feet long, bearing lateral racemes of about five flowers, the rachis when full grown 
being zig-zag. The flowers are rich orarige colour, with a broad double brown blotch in the middle of the lip ; 
the sepals are linear-oblong, the petals roundish obovate oblong and somewhat undulated, the lip slightly three- 
lobed, round, hairy all over the upper surface, and strongly ciliated though not fringed at the edges. It is near 
B. Jimbriatum and B. moschatum; and has very recently been introduced from Assam by T. Denne, Esq. See 
Paxton!s Flower Garden , ii. 104. 
THE BEAUTY OE ELOYYEBS IN FIELD AND WOOD.* 
(Y1UCH is the title of a very enticing-looking little volume now before us, the aim of which, as 
^ explained by its author, is that of leading the rambler in field and wood to a higher order of 
pleasure than that which arises from mere general impressions of floral beauty; and this by acquiring 
a certain degree of knowledge of the plants which blossom around his path, and therefrom deriving 
certain edifying moral reflections. 
The first object of the book is that of furnishing a reply to the enquirer, whose interest, excited by 
the beauty or singularity of some common flower, or the very inconspicuousness of some wayside weed, 
leads him to ask, first, What is it P and then, What is it like ? These questions lead to a generalized 
explanation of all the more' essential parts of a plant; next of the mode in which they are most 
naturally classified ; and, finally, how this mode of classification may be practically applied, with the 
view of ascertaining the affinities and characteristics of any plant under examination. This part of 
the volume might consequently be called a popularized elementary sketch of structural and systematical 
botany. The remaining, and most bulky part, is occupied by a brief analytical survey of the more 
interesting British families of wild plants, treated in accordance with the “ natural ” method of classi¬ 
fication, with which it is the author’s especial endeavour to familiarize the reader. The distinctive 
features of the families, or natural orders as they are usually called, and of the most conspicuous and 
interesting wild plants, are given with sufficient exactness to render it a tolerably easy matter to 
recognize them by this aid alone; but we imagine that those who are thus far tempted within the 
domain of science—and this is the special object of the volume—will not rest satisfied without making 
further advances. We may briefly indicate some of the author’s sentiments, as illustrative of the style 
of the volume :— 
* The Beauty of Flowers in Field and Wood; comprising the Natural Orders, or Families of British Wild Plants, with their 
Moral Teachings Illustrated. By John Theodore Barker. Bath : Binns and Godwin. London: Whittaker & Co. 
