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That gentleman informs us, that it is easily distinguished by its dry hard leaves 
and pale yellow flowers. In our gardens its appearance is vastly improved, 
and it will probably prove as handsome as others. It grows freely when 
potted in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf mould, to which is added a small 
portion of rough bone dust. Being at present extremely rare, it has not 
been tried on the open border ; but the appearance of the plant leads us to 
suppose that it may be at least as hardy as B. fascicularis. Up to the present 
time it has been kept in a cold pit in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
— Bot. Reg. 
Orchid ace ae. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Bromheadia palustris. — In appearance this plant has the aspect of Epiden- 
drum elongatum, and, like it, has the whole of the upper part of the stem 
provided with closely pressed distant sheaths instead of leaves, on which the 
spike of flowers is arranged. The latter is very rigid, between two and three 
inches long, regularly zig-zag, with a short hard tooth-like bract at each 
bend. The flowers are about an inch long, white, and rather drooping ; 
spreading quite open. The labellum, in which alone any colour resides, is 
straw-coloured on the middle lobe, and violet at the tips of the lateral lobes ; 
along the middle, as far as the separation of the lobes, it is convex, and 
covered with purple down, while the disk of the middle lobe is broken up into 
yellow granulations. — Bot. Reg. 
Orchidace ae. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Houlletia Brochleliurstiana. According to Dr. Lindley, in the Sertum 
Orchidaceum, Mr. Wanklyn, of Crumpsall House, Manchester, had the credit 
of originally introducing this noble plant from the Brazils. It was first 
flowered by Mr. Brocklehurst, of the Fence, Macclesfield, after whom it is 
called. The generic name was given to a nearly allied, if not the same, 
species, by M. A. Brongniart, in honour of M. Houllet, a French gardener, 
who introduced the original species to the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, from 
the Corcovado of Brazil. 
The pseudo-bulbs are rather small for the size of the plant, ovate, deeply 
furrowed, and more or less clothed with large lacerated scales ; upon the top 
of this bulb is, as it were, articulated, a large plaited broadly lanceolate mem¬ 
braneous leaf, borne on a long cylindrical footstalk. The flower stem 
proceeding from the base of the bulb rises above two feet high, including the 
inflorescence, which forms a spike or raceme of six to eight large handsome 
blossoms. Petals and sepals nearly uniform, elliptic-ovate, of a rich fulvous 
colour, spotted all over, within and without, paler on the outside ; lip of a 
singular form, having a narrow and rather saccate base, with two long subu¬ 
late horns, directed upwards towards the column, and which naay be con¬ 
sidered two lateral lobes, while the intermediate or terminal lobe is triangular. 
The colour of the lip is variable, yellow spotted with deep purple ; sometimes 
the terminal lobe is almost wholly purple.— Bot. Mag. 
Orchidaceae. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Disa grandiflora. A very beautiful terrestrial orchidaceous plant, from the 
Cape of Good Hope, with large scarlet and yellow flowers, resembling some¬ 
what those of Tigridia. It may be grown in a light greenhouse, but is 
extremely difficult to keep in a blooming state. — Bot. Mag. 
Leguminosae. — Diadelphia Decandria. 
Phaseolus lobatus. This plant was raised from seeds sent by Mr. Tweedie, 
from Buenos Ayres to the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, where it flowered in 
September, 1843. It is a twining plant, bearing deeply-lobed foliage, and 
short yet dense racemes of yellow pea-shaped flowers, the keel of which is 
curiously twisted in a spiral manner, like the shell of the Helix or snail.— 
Bot. Mag. 
