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which form towards the circumference of the flower other meshes of a finer 
and closer fabric, till at last they melt as it were into each other, and form a 
clear red border to each petal. The plant grows freely in any good rich 
garden soil, and flowers from July to September. It was raised in the gar¬ 
den of the Horticultural Society from seeds received from Dr. Royle, and 
is said to have been collected either in Cashmere or Thibet. — Bot. Reg. 
62—45. 
Pl u mbag i ne2E. — Pentandria Pentagynia. 
Statice Fortuni. A yellow-flowered Sea-Lavender is a rarity. This, which 
is a very interesting species, is a perennial, and will probably prove quite 
hardy. Its seeds were sent from China by Mr. Fortune in 1844, and were 
said to have been gathered at a place called Chin Chin, “ growing in sandy 
soil near the sea.” The latter circumstance will probably enable us hereafter 
to cultivate it better; for Mr. Fortune’s wild plants are not more than a foot 
high, while those which have flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society have been twice or thrice as large, or even more. They had been 
too tenderly treated. This is important, because it is easy to conceive that 
the beauty of a plant having many small flowers depends much upon their 
compactness.— Bot. Reg. 63—45. 
Bignoniaceve. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Jacaranda tonientosa. A very ornamental stove plant, of vigorous habit, 
bright green bipinnate leaves, and large handsome tubular flowers of a pecu¬ 
liar purple-lilac tinge. It is a native of Mexico, whence seeds were first 
brought by Sir Thomas Hardy, and a plant raised from them produced its 
flowers at Messrs. Whitby and Osborn’s Nursery, in the summer of 1827.— 
Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Liliaceae. — Triandria Monogynia. 
Brodicea grandijlora. A plant deserving much more attention than is 
usually acceded to it, probably from the circumstance of its being suffered 
to bloom singly, instead of in extensive and rather dense masses. An indi¬ 
vidual plant of Brodicea grandijlora would certainly have a somewhat meagre 
appearance on a lawn, with its narrow, scarce leaves and long flower stems ; 
but plant a number of bulbs closely in a bed, and they will form in their 
flowering time (July and August) a sheet of the most delicate blue. The 
appearance of the species might also be improved by planting some small, 
quick-growing creeper in the same bed, to cover the soil with green foliage. 
B. grandijlora appears to have been first introduced about the close of the 
last century ; it was also detected by Mr. Douglas during his botanical 
travels in North-west America, and transmitted to the Horticultural Society 
in 1826. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Orchideas. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Cattleya granulosa , var. Russelliana. Some fatality seems to have attended 
this beautiful plant in our gardens. It was sent to Sir W. Hooker, from 
Woburn, as a Brazilian Orchid ; but we can find no evidence to show that 
it is a native of even the Southern hemisphere. At Syon, where it bloomed in 
May, 1844, it is said to have been received from Dr. Wallich in 1839, which 
is probably another mistake. There can be no doubt at least about its being 
in reality a very fine variety of the Guatemala, C. granulosa, and its intro¬ 
duction may with good reason be referred to one of Mr. Skinner s numerous 
importations. The colour of the sepals and petals is an olive green spotted 
rather sparingly with red, and the lip is white on the outside and at the 
apex, the interior, for about two thirds of its length from the base, being 
yellow thickly dotted with crimson. The large membranous wavy petals, 
great erect flowers, and long lip spread out at the point into a broad trans- 
