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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
flowers are pendulous, from four to five inches long, of a fine rose- 
red colour, the limb four-cleft; segments ovate, moderately 
spreading, slightly tipped with green, corolla none. As the 
season advances the colour becomes more brilliant, and then the 
effect, with the numerous flowers quite concealing the stem and 
branches, is peculiarly striking. The plant seems scarcely to 
exceed two feet in height, and it is so free a flowerer that blos¬ 
soms appear when the plant is only six inches high.— Bot. Mag. 
4233. 
Orchidaceie. —Gynandria Monandria. 
Maxillaria JVarreana. This is a very distinct and very lovely 
species of Maxillaria, first detected, as it would appear, in Brazil, 
at least it was, according to Mr. Loddiges, cultivated there by Mr. 
Warre, after whom it is named. Our plants were sent from 
Santa Martha, New Grenada, by our collector, Mr. Purdie, and 
flowered in the Royal Gardens, and at Sion, in August 1845. The 
delicate and almost snowy or yellow white of the ground of the 
flowers is beautifully contrasted with the rich purple of the inside 
of the lip. The flowers, about a dozen in number, are borne on 
an erect spike springing from the base of the new growth, the 
latter rising from a cormus or short rootstock, and ultimately 
forming a pseudo-bulb about three inches in length. The leaves 
are long, attenuated at the base, and gradually expanding into a 
lanceolate, acuminated, striated, and plaited blade.— Bot. Mag. 
4235. 
Ansellia Africana. Two specimens of this fine epiphyte have 
been introduced by Messrs. Loddiges and the Rev. John Clowes, 
from the neighbourhood of Fernando Po, and that belonging to 
the first-named gentleman produced its flowers in February last. 
It has a slender, many-join ted, bulbous stem, about two feet long, 
having at the upper end many stiff, plaited, lanceolate, five-ribbed 
leaves, and a terminal spike of flowers as large as those of Vanda 
Roxburghii, with dark purple spots on a greenish-yellow ground. 
It is, indeed, a noble thing ; for although its flowers have some¬ 
what the colour and appearance of a large Cymbid, yet their 
panicled disposition, and the entirely different habit of the plant, 
render it much more showy than any Cymbid known to us. The 
