LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
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OitCHiDEiE.— Gynandria Monandria. 
Oncidium bicallosum. An inhabitant of Guatemala, whence it was intro¬ 
duced to our stoves by Mr. Skinner. There exists a great similarity between 
the present plant and 0. Cavendishianum, and 0. pachyphyllum ; the three 
indeed appearing to be merely varieties of the same form. O. bicallosum has 
no pseudo-bulbs, the foliage is large, singularly thick, and carinate; it has a 
very long peduncle rising from the base of the leaf, and bearing a many- 
flowered panicle which varies much in size and ramification. The flowers 
are large and handsome, yellow, slightly tinged with green on the sepals 
and petals ; these are all spreading and obovato-spathulate, but not equal ; 
the lip is large, three-lobed, the middle one very large, and slightly divided 
at the apex. It is a free-flowering and desirable species.— Bot. Mag. 41— 48. 
Sola NEj5£. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Lycium fuchsioides. A very handsome plant, attaining a large size, pos¬ 
sessing fine ample foliage, and producing a copious display of large brilliant 
orange-scarlet flowers. It was raised in the Royal Botanic Gardens of 
Kew, from seeds, sent by Dr. Jameson, from Azoques in the Quitinian 
Andes, where it is used by the natives for fences.— Bot. Mag. 41—49. 
BROMELiACEiE. — Hexandria Monogynia. 
Barbacenia purpurea. This beautiful little plant was the first of the genus 
known in this country, and is a worthy companion of the orange-red flowered 
B. squamata ; the seeds were accidentally discovered by the Hon. and Rev. 
W. Herbert, of Spofforth, amongst a quantity of Brazilian moss. Mr. 
Gardner, in his recent exploration of that country, met with it near the foot 
of the mountains about trvo miles south of the town of Rio Janeiro. It there 
grows abundantly in places where a little vegetable mould has accumulated, 
amongst which it vegetates and blooms with the utmost luxuriance. All the 
leaves spring from near the same point, forming a tuft round the base which 2 
scarcely elongates into a stem. They are of a very rigid nature, and differ 
from those of B. squamata, in having larger and more aistant spinous ser- 
ratures at their margins. The plant is also distinguished by the flower- 
stalk being considerably longer than the leaves, and by the deep rich purple 
colour of the flowers. A warm moist atmosphere, and a proportionate and 
uniform degree of heat about the roots in the growing season, together with 
a porous soil, partly composed of well-rotted leaves, through which water 
can easily pass, and any excess drain away, seem to be the essential elements 
in the maintenance of a high state of cultural perfection. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
ErACRiDACEiE. — Pentandria Monogynia. 
Styphelia tubiflora. Long known to British collections, but seldom seen 
in a state of perfection, owing to a difficulty experienced in its management, 
by the old system of employing small pots and finely-sifted mould. The 
general aspect of the plant is not strikingly dissimilar from many species of 
the kindred genus Epacris; the stems are furnished with small leaves, 
which are sometimes linear-obovate and sometimes somewhat heart-shaped 
at the base; the flowers are borne all along the shoots of the previous season, 
and spring from the bosom of the leaves ; they are remarkable for their 
handsome pendulous tube, and the delicacy ot its rich crimson colour; and 
also for the rolled back segments of the limb being furnished with a fringe of 
numerous crimson hairs. Grown in a porous soil, with the treatment usual 
for Epacris, it will form a very handsome object throughout the winter 
months. It is a native of the neighbourhood of Port Jackson in New bouth 
Wales. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
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