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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Purdie in 1845. Our drawing was taken from a fine specimen 
in the greenhouse of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 
It grows freely and flowers abundantly during the summer months, 
when its pale purple blossoms are very pleasing.— Bot. Mag. 
4331. 
Proteacee. —Tetandria Monogynia. 
Isopogon sphcerocephalus (Lindley). A free-growing green¬ 
house shrub, with terete downy branches, pale green, linear, or 
linear-lanceolate leaves, and terminal heads of deep yellow laciniate 
flowers. It was sent from Swan River by Mr. Drummond, to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers in the spring months, 
and attains a height of three or four feet.— Bot. Mag. 4332, 
Epacridacee. —Pentandria Monogynia. 
Epacris Taunt oniensis. This very pretty free-flowering hybrid 
Epacris was raised a few years ago by Mr. Ball, nurseryman, of 
Taunton, as we believe betwixt E. grandijlora and E. impressa. 
It is certainly a very ornamental kind, and deserves universal 
distribution, being a robust free-grower, a liberal braucher, and 
having a very prolonged flowering season. The flowers are 
larger and deeper in colour than those of E. impressa.—Pax. 
Mag. Bot. 
Orchid acee. —Gynandria Monogynia. 
Epidendrum alatum (Bateman). Of this once rare plant the 
gardens now abound in varieties, owing to the large importations 
from Guatemala, of which it is a native. Its pale colour, and 
the peculiar markings upon its lip at once distinguish it. These 
markings consist of reddish warts, plates, scales, or elevations of 
various forms arranged upon the veins, and therefore spreading 
from the base. We find nothing among the variations of sufficient 
importance to deserve special notice.— Bot. Reg. 53-47. 
Saccolabium miniatum (Lindley). This is one of the prettiest 
Epiphytes lately introduced, for the gay red orange of its flowers 
is as rich and pure as Epidendrum vitellinum. It is moreover so 
compact in its mode of growth that it can be easily moved from 
place to place. It is a Java plant, imported by Messrs. Veitch, 
and has flowered with both Mr. Rucker and Mr. C. B. Warner. 
Its blossoms grow in spreading racemes about ten together.— Bot. 
Reg. 58-47. 
