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discovered, and, it may be added, are very much rpore handsome; the racemes, 
if such they can be called, are axillary, bearing three or four bright yellow 
flowers. It forms a dwarf-spreading evergreen shrub, and seems to be about 
as hardy as Berberis fascicularis. — Bot. Reg. 10—45. 
SoLANACEiE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Solarium macranihum. A native of Brazil, and has long been cultivated in 
the old stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where, planted in the 
border, it has attained to the height of the roof. In such a situation it really 
makes a very handsome appearance, with its ample foliage, and its large, pale, 
lil ac-coloured flowers, which, drooping as they do, are seen to great ad¬ 
vantage from below. To those cultivators who have not space to allow its 
growing thus freely, cuttings may be recommended, which strike freely, and 
flower almost as soon as struck. — Bot. Mag. 4138. 
Passifloriace.e. — Monadelphia Pentandria. 
Disemma aurantia. This plant resembles in general appearance some of 
the smaller-growing Passion-flowers; it is a native of New Caledonia, and 
there are three other species, all of Australian origin. It is a greenhouse 
climber, easily cultivated in a pot, with wire trellis ; and is remarkable Jfor 
the flowers being nearly white in the bud, and on first expanding, gradually 
assuming a yellow or tawny tint, and finally becoming a brick red. The 
sepals have a singularly broad keel or deep wing at the back.— Bot. Mag. 4140. 
Thymele^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Cryptadenia unijlora. Among the handsomest of the Linna?an genus 
Passerina were three species, the present, P. grandijlora, and P. ciliata, 
which, in habit, as well as in essential character, differed considerably from 
the others. These Professor Meisner has wisely separated from Passerina, 
and named Cryptadenia, from the presence of eight glands concealed within 
the tube of the floral envelope, and alternating with the eight stamens. All 
are natives of the Cape. The present species, though sufficiently known in 
Herbaria, is probably rare in gardens, though well deserving a place on 
account of the beauty of its copious flowers, and the long time the plant 
continues to blow. It has, however, been cultivated at Kew since 1759. 
It flowers there in the early summer months, in an airy part of the green¬ 
house.— Bot. Mag. 4143. 
Orchidace^e.— Gynandria Monandria. 
Cymbidium ocliroleucum. This plant has a very singular mode of growth, 
producing its distichous flowers in a leafy spike, quite distinct from the 
pseudo-bulbs, which themselves originate from the axils of leafy branches. 
The flowers of the leafy spike open in succession, but I have never seen more 
than two expanded at once ; they are white or cream-colour, fragrant, and 
rather large; the sepals and petals are nearly uniform, oblong-ovate, the 
latter rather narrower ; all of them concave. The three-lobed lip is yellow, 
streaked transversely with red ; the disk of the lip has a broad crest, formed 
of orange-coloured imbricated soft spines. — Bot. Mag. 4141. 
Miltonia cuneata. This is a most beautiful epiphyte, allied to M. Candida, 
with flowers nearly four inches in diameter; the sepals and petals a rich 
brown, tipped with green. The lip is pure white, with a tinge of pink near 
the base, in form quite different from M. Candida, for it is scarcely at all 
curled at the edge, is very much narrowed to the base, and has only one pair 
of plates instead of two and a half. The wings of the column too are scarcely 
divided, or at all events not at all notched. — Bot. Reg. 8—45. 
