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the spike or raceme bearing six or eight flowers; the sepals and 
petals are reddish-brown, stained at the apex with light green; 
the column has a reddish stripe along the inside, and also the 
throat of the labellum, with the apex white. The form of this 
flower is curious; the top sepal and petals form a half circle 
close round the column and labellum, the two lower sepals pro¬ 
jecting from each other downwards. Delights in a mixture of 
rotten wood, turfy peat, and moss, with a temperature of 70°.— 
Native of Demerara. 
19. Barkeria Bindley ana. This plant is very similar to 
Epidendrum Skinnerii in habit, except that the leaves are 
shorter, and of a reddish-green colour; the flower-spike is pro¬ 
duced from the apex, slender, and about a foot long, support¬ 
ing six or seven flowers of a rosy crimson ; the labellum is 
nearly an inch long, and all of a breadth, with a small stain of 
white in the centre, near the column. It will succeed well in 
a basket filled with half-rotten wood, and should be liberally 
supplied with water when growing. It requires a temperature 
of 60 or 65°. This plant ought to be in every selection.— 
Native of Guatemala. 
20. Burlingtonia Candida. So named from its white flowers. 
The plant is bulbous; the bulbs are two inches long and one 
inch broad, and rather flat; the leaves are eight inches long and 
better than two inches broad, of a dark green ; the flowers white. 
It should be placed on a log, and in a temperature of 70°. This 
also is well worth growing. 
John Henshall, K— p — y. 
(To be continued.) 
LITERARY NOTICE. 
Horticultural Essays , being the Papers read at the Meetings 
of the Regent's Park Gardens Association, for mutual In¬ 
struction. Part I. 
An 8vo pamphlet of 73 pages, containing various papers which 
have been read at the evening meetings of the above Society, 
during the first half year of its existence. 
These essays are the production of practical gardeners, written 
in their leisure hours and for the purpose of benefiting each 
other by that most excellent method, “mutual instruction ;” this 
alone should be sufficient to ensure them a favorable notice, as 
it evinces on the part of each contributor, not only a desire to 
