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haphia.—Order Gesneracese (Gesnerwort tribe.)—A neat stiff shrubby stove evergreen shrub, the oval leaves of 
which are bullate (blistered), and the flowers tubular, downy externally, and coloured scarlet. It comes from Cuba, 
and was introduced by Linden. Schiedweiler proposed to call this plant Conradia verrucosa , but Dr. Lindley’s 
genus Pentarhaphia has the priority. 
Beschorneria tubiflora, Kunth. Tube-flowered Beschorneria.—Order Amaryllidacese (Amaryllid tribe).— 
An Agave-like cool greenhouse plant from Mexico, cultivated at Kew. The leaves are radical, and eighteen 
inches to two feet long. The scape rises four feet, and bears a many-flowered erect raceme. The flowers are 
drooping, brownish-purple externally, green within. It blossomed in February, 1852. 
Trichopilia alb id a, Wendland. "White Trichopil.—Order Orchidacese (Orchid tribe).—A stove epiphyte. 
Compared with the other species of Trichopils now known, this is of little value. The flowers are pale, the sepals 
and petals are yellowish, and the lip white, with a blotch of crowded yellow ochre-coloured spots. It is allied to 
T. tortilis, but the pseudo bulbs are longer, and the petals scarcely twisted. It comes from Caraccas, and has been 
flowered at Birmingham during the past year. 
Cycnoches mfsciferttm, Lindley. Fly-bearing Cycnoches.—Order Orchidacese (Orchid tribe).—An interesting 
stove epiphyte, not, however, very showy. It looks like a diminutive form of C. barbatum. The plants bear an 
upright loose raceme of pale-coloured flowers, minutely speckled with brown ; and their resemblance to some kind 
of fly is striking. It is from Columbia, and had been obtained from Mr. Linden by Messrs. Kollison, with whom 
it blossoms in February. 
Lennea robinioides, Link, Klotzsch , and Otto. Robinia-like Lennea. — Order Fabacese (Leguminous plants). 
—A greenhouse bush, three feet high, with pinnated distichous leaves, and pendulous axillary racemes of flowers 
as large as those of the Judas-tree, and of the same colour. It blossoms in May. It is a Mexican plant, and is 
grown in the Berlin gardens. 
Odontoglosstjm Ehrenbergii, Klotzsch . Ehrenberg’s Odontoglot.—Order Orchidacese (Orchid tribe).—A 
very pretty dwarf stove epiphyte, resembling 0. Possii. It is of very dwarf, compact habit, and has white flowers, 
the sepals of which are banded with brown, and the lip acuminate. A large mass of it would have a very pretty 
appearance. It is Mexican, and was found hy M. Ehrenberg on an Oak-tree, near San Onofro, on the banks of the 
Zimapore. 
Dendrobium bigibbum, Lindley. Bigibbous Dendrobe.—Order Orchidacese (Orchid tribe).—A very pretty 
epiphyte from tropical New Holland, introduced by Mr. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in January last. It 
has long fusiform stems, bearing near the end a few long narrow acute leaves, and terminated by an erect raceme 
of three or four rich purple flowers, which Dr. Lindley compares with those of JBletia verecunda ; the sepals are 
oblong acute, the petals broader, and roundish, and the lip has a kind of double chin at the base. It is allied to 
D. Kingianum and D. elongatum , but is much handsomer. 
Rytidophyllum Oerstedtii, Klotzsch. Dr. Oersted’s Rytidophyllum. —- Order Gesneracese (Gesnerwort 
tribe).—A stove subshrub, of epiphytal hahits, with oblique oblong leaves, and greenish hairy flowers spotted with 
purple, an inch and a half in length, with a bent swollen tube. It is a native of Central America, and was intro¬ 
duced by M. "Warczewicz to the German gardens. 
Passiflora sicyoides, Schlechtendal. Sicyum-like Passion-flower.—Order Passifioracese (Passion-flower tribe). 
—This is the P. odora of Link and Otto. It is a slender hairy climber, with three-lobed leaves, and sweet-scented 
flowers, having a white corolla, and a coronet variegated with red. It is a native of Mexico, and was introduced 
by the late G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, with whom it first flowered in 1839. 
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f HE inaugural Floral fete of the metropolis, held at Chiswick on the 9th ult., proves, at least, 
that plant culture is not at all on the decline. As a whole no finer exhibition was ever seen. 
To particularize :—the Azaleas were gorgeous, the Orchids varied and magnificent, the miscellaneous 
plants perfect in all respects, the Pelargoniums and pot Roses in considerable muster, and “ well 
done,” though the Roses were hardly expanded; whilst versus the senseless objections which have 
been made to the new mode of showing florists’ flowers in pots, there were Heartsease, which it did 
one’s heart good to see, plants bearing each from a dozen to a score of magnificent flowers. These 
matters were varied by some finely-grown groups of exotic Ferns from Syon, and the garden of H. B. 
Ker, Esq.; hy variegated-leaved plants, especially a beautiful Cissus called marmorea or discolor, 
recently obtained from Java, from Messrs. Rollisson’s Nursery; by a fine pyramidal-grown Pelar¬ 
gonium, of a new light-coloured bedding variety called citriodorum grandijlorum, from Mr. Ayres; 
and by a beautiful collection of Ancectocliilus and other variegated Orchids, from C. B. Warner, Esq. 
Fruit was exhibited in tolerable profusion for the season, and of about average quality. 
