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into Holland by Dr. Siebold, and from there sent to the Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Makoy of Liege. • It is a greenhouse 
shrub, possessing no particular claim to beauty; the flowers 
are green, mostly solitary ; the foliage is pale green and mode¬ 
rately abundant.— Bot. Mag. 
Gynandria MoNANDRiA—Orc/ihfe<£. 
Maxillaria Acutipetala. This is a beautiful little Maxillaria, 
resembling M. tenuifolia in its leaves and manner of growth, and 
M. picta in its inflorescence. It was found in Central America 
by Mr. Barclay, collector to the Royal Gardens at Kew, at 
which place it bloomed in March and April last; the flowers 
are pale orange, spotted with blood-colour, sepals about an inch 
and a half long, oblong acute and spreading, petals smaller of 
the same shape, colour, and character. The flowers rise mostly 
in pairs on short peduncles, from the pseudo bulbs, which are 
clustered, oblongo-ovate, deeply furrowed ; the younger ones 
clothed with brown acuminated scales.— Bot. Mag. 
Syngenesia Nec ess aria— Cornpositce. 
Othonna frutescens. A showy greenhouse plant, rising about 
two feet high, thickly covered with yellow flowers, lately in¬ 
troduced to the Birmingham Botanic Gardens.— Bot. Mag. 
Moncecia Polyandria— Begoniacece. 
Begonia Hydrocotylifolia. A rather pretty dwarf species, 
much resembling some of our old varieties, and requiring the 
same treatment. Sent from the Botanic Garden of Berlin.— 
Bot. Mag. 
Octandria Monogynia — Combvetaceee. 
Combretum Grandiflorum. A very handsome stove climber, 
differing from the old yet handsome C. purpureum (or poivrea 
coccinea) in having somewhat larger foliage and a more graceful 
habit, the growth also is freer; “the flowers are arranged in 
altogether a different manner, issuing from both sides of the 
principal stalk, their short pedicles curve upwards, so as to give 
them the appearance of two rows of flowers placed side by side 
on the upper surface of the spike.” A native of Sierra Leone, 
from whence it was sent in 1824, but supposed to have been 
nearly lost.-— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
