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however, were again sent to the same establishment by Mr. An- 
derer in 1842: these produced their showy yellow flowers in 
August of the same year. The general appearance of the plant 
approaches that of a Cyclamen, having solitary terminal flowers 
somewhat like a single marigold. — Bot. Mag. 
Icosandria Monogynia.— CactecB . 
Rhipsalis brachiata. This new species of Rhipsalis was re¬ 
ceived by Mr. Moore at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden from 
Mr. Tweedie at Buenos Ayres; and it produced its flowers 
with that able cultivator in the month of March, 1843. The 
plant appears to be more branching than R. salicornoides; the 
flowers are rather large for the genus, pale greenish yellow, 
terminal upon divaricated articulations on the lower part of the 
stem. — Bot. Mag. 
Decandria Monogynia. — Leguminosce. 
Gastrolobium acutum. A handsome greenhouse shrub, flower¬ 
ing in the greenhouse in the month of March. It was raised 
from seeds sent from the Swan River by Mr. James Drum¬ 
mond to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew in 1842. Its red 
and deep yellow (pea-shaped) flowers and its glossy ternate 
leaves make a very pretty appearance at that early season of 
the year. — Bot. Mag. 
Gynandria Monandria. — Orchidacece. 
Barkeria spectabilis. For the introduction of this species, 
which is one of the most lovely of Orchidacese, cultivators are 
indebted to G. U. Skinner, Esq. It forms a tuft of cylindrical 
stems, of about four or five inches high, each of which bears 
two fleshy, lanceolate-acute leaves separated from each other by 
intervals of about an inch. The raceme rises out of some brown 
dry sheaths, and in the plants that have flowered bears about 
six most lovely nodding blossoms ; but, according to Mr. Skin¬ 
ner, it varies in length from three inches to a foot, producing as 
many as twelve flowers in a raceme. The expanded flowers 
are nearly three and a half inches wide, their colour is a bright 
lilac, the labellum is white at the base and in the middle, lilac 
at the edge and point, and richly marked with small blood-red 
spots: along its middle, below the column, are five purple lines, 
which pass into three elevated colourless ridges, beyond the 
place where the anther touches the lip. It is with Cattleyas 
and such beautiful plants that this charming species is worthy 
to be arranged. Mr. J. Brewster, gardener to Mrs. Wray, of 
Oakfield, near Cheltenham, where the plant has been bloomed 
beautifully, says, “ The plant was imported from Guatemala in 
July, 1841, when it immediately began to grow, and late in 
autumn it showed flower-scapes; but the season was too far 
