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BEDDING PLANTS. 
peduncles about two inches long ; bracts mitre-shaped, covering 
the five parted calyx ; corolla of a brilliant scarlet; tube ventri- 
cose, an inch and a half long ; limb bilabiate, upper lip with two 
rounded lobes, lower lip three lobed ; lobes smaller than the 
upper ones ; stamens four, exserted.— Pax. Mag. Bot. 
Orchidace^l —Gynandria Monandria. 
Cirrhopetalum fimbriatum (Lindley). A rare and lovely plant 
sent by J. E. Law, Esq., to the Royal Gardens from Bombay, 
where it is said to be by no means common, growing on ayeen 
trees about Parr and the Rotunda Ghaut. Attached to masses of 
sphagnum, and suspended from a rafter of the orchideous 
house, it bears its most curious flowers copiously in April and 
May. The flower scape proceeds from the base of the bulbs, is 
erect, a span long, slender, and bracteated, bearing an umbel of 
spreading flowers, which are very curious in structure, and well 
worthy inspection with a microscope. The greater portion of the 
flower is constituted by the two lateral sepals, which stand 
forward, are nearly two inches long, linear, or linear-spathulate, 
acute, combined by their inner edges ; the other parts of the 
flower are in comparison minute. The remaining or superior 
sepals, and the petals, are ovate, suddenly tapering into a 
subulate point, red, and elegantly fringed. Lip red, tongue¬ 
shaped, thick and fleshy, the upper half reflexed; column with 
two subulate horns at the upper anterior angles.— Bot. Mag., 
4391. 
NEXT SEASON’S SUPPLY OF BEDDING PLANTS. 
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How to prepare and preserve an efficient supply of plants for 
filling the flower-beds next year, is just now a matter occupying 
a good deal of the gardener’s attention. There are few who 
really delight in the pursuit, but will desire some improvement, 
either in the general character of their charge, or in the details 
which contribute towards it; and among those who meet with 
the greatest measure of success, it is most likely we shall find 
the strongest desire to improve. The present is the best time 
