CATTLEYA LABIATA, PICTA, Lindley. Blotched ruby-lipped Cattleya (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i., t. 24): CATTLEYA LABIATA, ALBA, Lindley. White ruby-lipped Cattleya (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i., t. 24).—Nat. Ord., Orchidaceae § Epidendreæ-Læliada. The above are two fine and distinct varieties of the well known C. labiata, from which, according to Dr. Lindley, C. Mossiæ does not differ specifically; indeed, there are numerous imported varieties of this, as of some other orchids. The stems of these plants are between club-shaped and spindle-shaped; the leaves oblong, solitary; the spathe as long as the peduncle; the sepals linear-lanceolate, acute; the petals much broader, wavy; the lip obovate, crisped, wavy, and emarginate. The var. picta has very large rosy lilac flowers, which are blotched with brighter rose; the lip deep rich crimson. blotched towards the edge; grown by J. J. Blandy, Esq. The var. alba is white, except the lip, which is crimson, broken and blotched towards the margin, where it is white; grown at Syon. From Brazil. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in summer. GORDONIA JAVANICA, Rollisson. Javanese Gordonia (Bot. Mag., t. 4539).-Nat. Ord., Ternströmiaceæ.-A branched, evergreen, stove shrub, with the aspect of a tea plant. The branches are terete, the leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, leathery, and quite entire. The flowers grow singly on solitary peduncles, axillary from the base of most of the upper leaves, which peduncles bear two or three deciduous, spathulate, green bracts below the calyx; the flowers consist of five obovate, white petals, and are scarcely two inches in diameter. From Java: probably in the mountains. Introduced in 1848. Flowers in August and September. Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. PORTLANDIA PLATANTHA, Hooker. Broad-flowered Portlandia (Bot. Mag., t. 4534).-Nat. Ord., Cinchonacea § Cinchoneæ.—A fine showy stove, evergreen, glabrous shrub, of erect branching habit. The leaves are large, opposite with very short stalks, elliptic-obovate, somewhat leathery, and of a full glossy green. The flowers grow singly on short stalks from the axils of the leaves, often opposite; the calyx has four spreading, leafy, lanceolate lobes; the corolla is white, broadly and shortly funnel-shaped, approaching to bell-shaped; five-ribbed, with a limb of five spreading, ovate lobes, with revolute margins. It has been grown as a fine variety of P. grandiflora, but is distinct from that species; the flowers not being half the length, and much more freely produced. From the West Indies? Introduced before 1850. Flowers all summer, "almost always in blossom." Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter.

RHODODENDRON CINNAMOMEUM, CUNNINGHAMI, Lindley. Cunningham's White Rhododendron (Part. Fl. Gard., i., t. 16).—Nat, Ord., Ericaceæ § Rhododendreæ.-A splendid hardy evergreen shrub, raised from R. cinnamomeum crossed with R. maximum. The flower heads are large, and the flowers pure white, beutifully contrasting with the dark purple spotting on the upper segment of the corolla. It is stated to be quite hardy. A garden hybrid, raised, about 1848, by Mr. Cunningham, of Liverpool. Flowers in May.

RHODODENDRON PONTICUM, VERVAENEANUM FLORE-PLENO, Van Houtte. Vervaene's double Rhododendron (Flore des Serres, t. 492).-Nat. Ord., Ericaceae § Rhododendreæ.-A fine hardy shrub, remarkable among the Rhododendrons for its semi-double blossoms, which are produced in large depressed dense pyramidal heads or corymbs; the colour is a pale lilac-purple, the upper segment of the corolla marked with scattered yellow spots. A Belgian garden variety of some merit.

DIANTHUS CRUENTUS, Fischer. Blood-red Dianthus (Flore des Serres, t. 488).-Nat. Ord., Caryophyllaceæ § Sileneæ.-A very pretty hardy perennial, very smooth except on the petals. The leaves are produced in crowded tufts, and are connate at the base, lanceolate-linear, drawn out to a long sharp point. The flowering stems are simple, from one to two feet high, terminated by a nearly globular contracted cyme, consisting of a crowded mass of bracts and flowers; the bracts scarious, rusty, and long pointed; the flowers about an inch across, consisting of five distinct, rhomboid, wedge-shaped, toothed petals, of a vivid carmine, having a few violet hairs at the base; the projecting stamens are of a greyish lead-colour. Supposed to come from Siberia, or the Caucasus. Introduced to Belgium, in 1849, from St. Petersburgh. Flowers in summer. M. Van Houtte, of Ghent.

ONCIDIUM SESSILE, Lindley. Sessile Oncid (Part. Fl. Gard., i., t. 21).-Nat. Ord., Orchidaceæ § VandeæBrasside. A pretty stove epiphyte, with oblong, compressed, pseudo-bulbs, which bear two strap-shaped, blunt, papery leaves, shorter than the scape, which bears a panicled raceme of flowers. These are yellow, very faintly spotted about the centre with pale cinnamon colour; the sepals and petals are conformable, oblong obtuse, all sessile, that is wanting the claw so generally characteristic of Oncids; the lip is eared, dilated at the end, and retuse. From Santa Martha. Introduced in 1847. Flowers in spring. Duke of Northumberland.

LILIUM WALLICHIANUM, Schultes. Dr. Wallich's Lily (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i., 120).-Nat. Ord., Liliacea § Tulipeæ. Syn., L. longiflorum, Wallich.-A noble, hardy, bulbous perennial, growing with a tall slender stem (? three to four feet high), two-thirds of which are thickly furnished with long, narrow, linear leaves, the uppermost drawn out into a linear point. The flowers are large, eight inches in length, the tube long and narrow, gradually widening into the ample spreading limb; they are creamy white and very fragrant: in the wild plants generally two or three at the top of the stems, but sometimes only one, as in the examples which have been bloomed in cultivation. It appears to be very near L. longiflorum. From the north of India: Almorah. Introduced, by Major Madden, in 1850. Flowers towards the end of summer. Botanic Gardens, Belfast, and Glasnevin, Ireland. HAKEA CUCULLATA, R. Brown. Cucullate-leaved Hakea (Bot. Mag., t. 4528).-Nat. Ord., Proteaceæ § Folliculares.-An erect growing and ornamental evergreen greenhouse shrub, four or five feet in height, with round, pale brown, very downy branches, and large alternate leathery leaves, which are heart-shaped, or between kidney and heart-shaped; stalkless, concave, waved, and minutely toothed at the margin; the colour is glaucous green. The flowers grow in copious clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, and are seated in the hollow formed between

them and the stem; they are red, formed of four unequal, linear, glabrous sepals, bearing anthers on their spathulate apex, and have very long styles; these flowers are individually small, compared with other parts of the plant, but are rather showy from their number, and compact arrangement. From Australia. Introduced about 1846. Flowers in spring. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.

STYLIDIUM MUCRONIFOLIUM, Sonder. Bristle-leaved Stylidium (Bot. Mag., t. 4538).—Nat. Ord., Stylidiacea -A very pretty greenhouse herbaceous perennial, with wiry roots, and tufted stems two or three inches long, copiously furnished with glabrous spreading linear-subulate leaves, which are each tipped with setaceous mucro. The scapes are terminal, six or eight inches high, bearing a compact oval panicle. of numerous bright yellow flowers, the segments of which are marked with a conspicuous zigzag line around the mouth; these segments are of nearly equal size, and of a somewhat ovate figure. From Australia: Swan River colony. Introduced in 1848. Flowers in the latter part of summer. Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter.

STYLIDIUM SAXIFRAGOIDES, Lindley. Saxi-
frage-like Stylidium (Bot. Mag., t. 4529).—
Nat. Ord., Stylidiacea.-Syn., S. assimile,
Bentham.-A pretty greenhouse, perennial,
herbaceous plant, bearing rosulate tufts of
densely imbricated, spreading, linear leaves,
which are somewhat incurved, acute, ending
in a long hair or bristle, and fringed on the
margin with short scabrous hairs; the colour
yellow-green tinged with reddish-purple.
The flower scapes grow from the centre of
the tufts, ten inches or a foot high, bearing
a simple raceme of eight or ten blossoms,
which are (comparatively) large, creamy
yellow, the column knee-jointed and red;
the flowers consist (apparently) of four
spreading segments, two of which are larger
than the others; the upper part of the scape,
pedicels, ovary, calyx, and the outside of the
corolla, are clothed with short glandular
hairs. From Australia: Swan River. In-
troduced about 1848. Flowers in summer.
Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter.

CUPHEA IGNEA, Alph. De Candolle.—-
The plant, which is cultivated in gardens,
both in England and on the Continent,
as the C. platycentra, having been found
to differ from the plant so named by Mr.
Bentham, Professor De Candolle has
given it the name of C. ignea, from the
beautiful colour of its flowers, which is
preserved even in the herbarium.

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1. Stylidium saxifragoides.

2. Stylidium mucronifolium.

CATASETUM FIMBRIATUM, Lindley (see vol. i., 176).—According to Dr. Lindley (Paxt. Fl. Gard.) the Myanthus fimbriatus, Morren, described at the page above quoted, is a species of Catasetum.

CAPANEA GRANDIFLORA, Decaisne (see p. 35).-Dr. Lindley, in Paxton's Flower Garden, writes the generic name of this fine plant Campanea. Dr. Planchon, in Van Houtte's Flore des Serres (quoting Decaisne in the Revue Horticole, where the name was first published) writes it as we have done above.