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and has been imported very extensively, both by Mr. Hartweg, the zealous 
collector of the Horticultural Society, and by Mr. Skinner, from Guatemala. 
Till the present season, however, its flowers have only been known in this 
country through dried specimens. About the latter end of February last a 
fine specimen, grown by Mr. Brewster, gardener to Mrs. Wray, of Oakfield, 
near Cheltenham, produced its flowers for the first time in this country, and 
was exhibited at the rooms of the Horticultural Society. The flower scape 
or stem was about five feet in length, and bore, if we remember rightly, nine 
flowers, each of which was from five to six inches across, the sepals and 
petals of a bright rosy lilac; and the lip, which is large and thick, displayed 
near the apex the most lustrous crimson, shaded and marked towards the 
base with the richest orange and yellow, forming altogether a mixture of 
colours the most gorgeous ; the only drawback to the general beauty of the 
plant being the very long, and consequently attenuated, appearance of the 
flower-stalk. 
The situations in which the plants have been chiefly found is growing out 
of the crevices of rocks in the cooler districts of Guatemala, in places merely 
sheltered from the keenness of the northern winds ; and probably the reason 
why flowers have not been produced sooner may be correctly assigned to the 
fact of the specimens first introduced having been subjected to a high tem¬ 
perature, with a close moist atmosphere: these conditions, being more favour¬ 
able to luxuriant growth, would undoubtedly militate against the production 
of flowers, and it was not until the plants which have blossomed were treated 
in a contrary manner that they displayed any appearance of flower. — Pax. 
Mag. Pot. 
ScRorHULARiACEiE. — Didgnamia Angiospermia. 
Antirrhinum majus flore pleno. A fine double blood-coloured Snapdragon, 
raised accidentally from seeds, in the nursery of Messrs. Young, of Epsom. 
The flowers are large, and the colour intense. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Asphodelaceje. —- Triandria Monogynia. 
Leucocoryne alliacca. Some of the species of Leucocoryne are better 
known to cultivators as Brodiceas, under which they were first arranged and 
described. From that genus, however, they have been separated by Dr. 
Lindley, on account of the difference in the insertion of the fertile and the 
texture of the sterile stamens; and the present name, derived from leukos , 
white, and koryne, a club, has been applied in allusion to the form and colour 
of the barren anthers. The present species is a bulbous perennial, with long 
linear pale green leaves ; the flower stems appear to rise about a foot in height, 
and the tube of the flowers is greenish white, with a flat six-part limb, of a 
delicate lilac blue. It is a plant of easy culture, succeeding very well in a cool 
greenhouse, or even in the open ground, with a slight protection in severe 
weather. It is stated to have been found by Mr. M‘Raie in Chili, in 1825, 
growing on the sides of the mountains, between St. Jago and Valparaiso, in 
places that a few days previously had been covered with snow. — Pax. Mag. 
Bot. 
Legumihos^e. — Decandria Monogynia. 
Gompholohium Hendersonii. This plant possesses a character widely differ¬ 
ing from the well known G. polymorphum , for, instead of shoots remarkable 
for great length and tenuity, it is, on the contrary, a small dwarf bush, of 
slow growth and very stiff rigid habit; the leaflets are small and narrow, and 
always ternate, whilst those of G. polymorphum are sometimes three, and 
sometimes five. The flowers are scarcely so large, but are produced in equal 
abundance, and near the extremity of the shoots. It was sent from the Swan 
River in 1 840, by Capt. Mangles. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
