246 
THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Flores, the most westerly of the Azores. Its proper habitat appears to be 
on the mountains; though it comes down nearly to the sea-shore, following 
the course of rocky mountain streams, where the atmosphere is kept humid 
by the spray of the water. The deep rich indigo-blue of its numerous 
flowers, and their long succession from the lateral .branches, combine to 
render this species well deserving of cultivation, provided it can be brought 
to flourish in the drier climate of our gardens. It will require a loose, peaty 
or sandy soil, careful shading from the mid-day sun, frequent sprinkling with 
water, and to be covered with a glass in hot, dry weather. It will bear 
some frost, but may likely prove more impatient of cold than our native 
species of the genus. In a Wardian case it would probably succeed very 
well. — Bot. Mag. 
Orchidacee. —Gynandria Monandria. 
Anccetochilus setaceus. One of the most exquisitely beautiful of all plants 
in the hue and marking of its leaves, not to be imitated by art. Their 
colour is a rich velvety green, tinged with copper, and over that appears to 
be laid an exquisite golden network: the under side is quite different, of a 
reddish tinge, with obscure yellow veins, but all that is most beautiful is 
exposed to view. It is a native of damp shady woods in Ceylon, Amboyna, 
and Java, and probably of the Indian islands generally. It requires to be 
grown in a stove, kept constantly moist, and covered with a bell glass. — 
Bot. Mag. 
Plumbaginee. — Pentandria Pentagynia. 
Statice macrophylla. This splendid plant was introduced, we understand, 
from the Canary Islands by Mr. Smith, of the Botanic Garden of Hull; and 
it is now much dispersed among the gardens of this country, where, grown 
in a large pot, and kept in the greenhouse, it bears its large panicles of 
purple and white flowers during the month of April. — Bot. Mag. 
Convolvulacee. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Ipomcea Hardingii. An hybrid, raised by Mr. Harding, gardener to H. 
Bevan, Esq., of Glynn Garth, Beaumaris, between I. rubro-ccerulea and I. 
Horsfallii : the flowers appear to be intermediate; but the foliage differs very 
much from that of either of those species. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Cyrtandracee. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Chirita sinensis. This charming little greenhouse plant is one of the first 
results of any importance from the voyage to China by Mr. Fortune on 
account of the Horticultural Society. It was sent home in a wooden case, 
and its beautiful, large, lilac, fox-glove-like flowers were open when it 
arrived. It appears the plant belongs to the genus Chirita, distinguished 
from Didymocarpus by its stigma, having the upper lip abortive, and the 
lower two-lobed. Those who see what this is, may judge how desirable 
it would be to obtain from India the other species of' the genus, among 
which are some still finer; and they are all so easily cultivated that they 
are just the things to introduce into gardens. Anybody who can grow a 
Gloxinia can manage a Chirita. -— Bot. Beg. 
Orchidacee, § Vandee, || Maxillaride. — Gynandria Monandria . 
Anguloa uniflora. This new species of the long lost genus Anguloa was 
flowered by Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, in April last. We believe be 
received it among Linden’s collection in Columbia; according to Iluiz and 
Pavon it is found in precipitous places about Muna and Chincao in Peru, 
and profusely in the woods of Tarma, where it is called Carpales. It is a 
sweet-scented plant, with large white flowers, slightly tinged with yellow, 
and the whole habit of a Lycaste, to which genus this approaches very nearly. 
— Bot. Reg. 
