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are not so long, and the plant is altogether of a much stouter habit, and is 
remarkable for the large size of the foliage. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Cact^e — Icosandria Monogynia. 
Echinocactus oxygonus. Scarcely any plant possesses more noble or more 
lovely blossoms than the present, and they are the more striking from the 
circumstance of their being produced from so graceless and small a trunk. 
Our specimens are from seven to ten inches in height, subglobose, but 
generally a little longer than broad; green, slightly inclining to glaucous ; 
there are from thirteen to fifteen deep furrows with the Areolce about three- 
fourths of an inch apart, sunk, as it were, in the upper edge of each lobe. 
It is from the areole of some of the upper lobes that the flowers spring, 
a span or more long, often longer than the plant itself; the tube is trumpet¬ 
shaped, greenish, with many red-brown, villous, appressed scales, which 
gradually become longer and larger upwards, and pass into deep rose- 
coloured calycine segments, and these again into the oblong pale rose- 
coloured petals; the stamens are pale straw-colour, and very copious. — 
Bot. Mag. 4162. 
Ericaceae. — Decandria Monogynia. 
Arctostaphyllos nitida. Mr. Hartweg found this shrub in Mexico on the 
mountains called Carmen. The existence of the plant in our collections is 
owing to G. F. Dickson, Esq., who obtained seeds of it from Mexico for the 
Horticultural Society, in whose gardens it flowered in May, 1844. It forms 
a handsome evergreen shrub five or six feet high, bearing a profusion of 
pure white arbutus-like flowers, and is capable of enduring a mild winter in 
the open border. — Bot. Reg. 32-45. 
Rosacea. — Icosandria Pentagynia. 
Spiraea Lindleyana. The sorb-leaved spirea is well known as an inhabitant 
of shrubberies. The species now figured is very like it, differing chiefly in 
its greater stature and more numerous leaflets, which have a long taper 
point, and a distinctly ovate outline, while those of S. sorbifolia are nearly 
oval. It is a native of the Himalayas, and forms a fine tall shrub, growing 
freely along with similar plants, and flowering abundantly from July to 
September. During three winters it bore the cold without suffering, but 
the late winter killed it as far as the ground, from which, however, it is 
again shooting up. — Bot. Reg. 33-45. 
Orchidace^e. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Dendrobium Kingianum. For its introduction we are indebted to Mr. 
Bidwill, who obtained specimens two or three years ago in New Holland. 
In this species we are presented with the same character which has been 
previously noticed in other New Holland kinds, of a pseudo-bulbous stem, 
crowned with a few leathery leaves, and elongating in the form of a spike of 
flowers, a familiar instance of which is afforded in D. speciosum. Our plant 
however is by no means possessed of the huge size and stoutness for which 
D. speciosum is remarkable; on the contrary, it is comparatively rather 
diminutive, the pseudo-bulbs seldom exceeding a few inches in length. 
On Messrs. Loddiges’ plants they form an extremely crowded mass, 
and appear as if they had been squeezed together; this enables the flowers, 
which are rather loosely arranged, and only a few on each spike, to make a 
more showy appearance than might be imagined from an individual pseudo¬ 
bulb ; the lively markings of the lip are particularly engaging. — Pax. 
Mag. Bot. 
Schomburgkia tibicinis var. grandijiora. This splendid variety differs from 
the original species in having very much larger flowers, which are far paler 
