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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
purple flowers, which at their throat are slightly marked with 
rosy crimson. Quite small plants flower very freely ; indeed, it 
is naturally dwarf and well clothed with foliage, whose silvery 
marking on the deep rich green, always constitute it a pleasing 
object. It is a New Holland species, but succeeds best in a cool 
stove.— Pax. Mag. Pot. 
Leguminqs^:. —Diadelphia Decandria. 
Clitorea ternatea major. The Indian Clitorea ternatea is well- 
known. The present subject is from Sydney, New South Wales, 
whence seeds of it were received by the lady of B. Harrison, Esq., 
a gentleman, neighbour to J. Cook, Esq., of Brooklands, Black- 
heath, Kent, and to whose successful gardener, Mr. W. P. Ayres, 
they were presented; and, being raised, when in flower proved 
to be a distinct and very superior variety, well deserving to be 
distinguished by the name now given it. The flowers, Mr. Ayres 
states, are both larger and deeper in colour than C. ternatea , 
while the leaflets are more obtuse at the points, and are singularly 
marbled with yellowish-green on a dark-green ground colour. It 
also flowers much more freely than any of the varieties of C. 
ternatea which I have cultivated. It will doubtless prove a very 
easily cultivated stove or warm greenhouse climber, requiring to 
be sown in the early part of March, in a brisk moist heat of 66° 
or 7 0°, and grown freely at about the same temperature. It re¬ 
quires plenty of moisture in the growing season, both at the 
roots and over the foliage, as it is subject to the attack of red 
spider. — Pax Mag. Pot. 
Orchidace^e. —Gyndndria Monandria. 
Maxillaria ( Lycaste ) macrobulbon. Sent from Sierra Nevada, 
Santa Martha, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, to the Royal Gardens 
of Kew. It has some characters in common with M. a?’omatica } 
and with M. cruenta. From the former it may be known by the 
larger size in every part of the plant, by the scentless flowers, and 
different shape of the lip; from the latter by its smaller, differently 
coloured flowers, by the very dissimilar labellum, and the absence 
of the crimson blotch on its under side.— Pot. Mag. 4228. 
Oncidium lacerum. Among the species ofOncidium, to which 
the general term of chive-leaved may be given, and the type of 
which is O. cebolleta : this, and O. longifolium are the hand¬ 
somest. It agrees with that species in the length of its leaves. 
