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rather lanceolate, and placed near the summit of the bulb ; 
flowers rising from a raceme from the joint under the leaf, and 
producing twenty to forty flowers of a huffish yellow, with a 
blotch in the inside; and requires the same treatment and tem¬ 
perature, and also water while growing, as the other. — Native 
of India. 
John IIenshall, K— p—y. 
To be continued. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Mo n(pc i a Polyandria. — BegoniacecE. 
Begonia acuminata . The various species of Begonia have 
not been valued by horticulturists in general, according to 
their merits. As stove-plants, few families present a greater 
variety of colour and form in their foliage than they do: they 
are easily increased, ready flowerers, and the blossoms are 
highly beautiful. A collection of various species grouped to¬ 
gether, as is now the case in the royal gardens of Kew, is at all 
seasons of the year attractive; and from among this group the 
present one, though far, indeed, from being the handsomest, is 
selected. It was introduced to this establishment by Sir Joseph 
Banks, from Jamaica, in 1790. The flowers are greenish white, 
the foliage rather small and pointed. —- Bot. Mag. 
Decandria Monogynia. — MelastomacecE. 
Osbeckia chinensis. A very lively plant, with spreading 
branches, dark-coloured copious foliage, and bearing abundance 
of flowers in the spring months: when kept in a moist warm 
stove they are of a pale-purplish hue. It is believed to have 
been introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of Chelsea, somewhere 
about 1820. — Bot. Mag. 
Gynandria Monandria. OrchidetB. 
Megciclinium maximum. One of the many strange features 
of the vegetable kingdom, for which the orcliideous family is so 
remarkable. In the 'species of this genus the rachis, or stalk, 
immediately bearing the flowers is broad, flat, and sword-shaped, 
and upon each side of this the very singular blossoms aie 
inserted; and the appearance of these flowers is more like little 
tadpoles than any production of the vegetable world: they aie 
yellow-green, spotted with blood-coloured spots. The present 
kind was, as we are informed by Dr. Lindley, first collected by 
Smeathman, in Sierra Leone. With us its flowering season is 
June and July* — Bot. Mag. 
