The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . owered in the garden of Mr. Wilson Saunders. In general charac-ters, it agrees nearly with others of the genus. The flowers, however, are pecu- Notes and Glea7tin<rs. 105 liarly attractive, the tube being deep red, terminating in a broad stripe of dove-color on each segment, the interior of the fiower being pale pink. ipsea spcciosa. Beautiful Ipsea (Bot. Mag., t. 5701). — Orchidaceae. A beau-tiful terrestrial orchid, a native of Ceylon. The rhizomes are tuberous and hard,as large as a nut, or larger ; leaf usually solitary from
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . owered in the garden of Mr. Wilson Saunders. In general charac-ters, it agrees nearly with others of the genus. The flowers, however, are pecu- Notes and Glea7tin<rs. 105 liarly attractive, the tube being deep red, terminating in a broad stripe of dove-color on each segment, the interior of the fiower being pale pink. ipsea spcciosa. Beautiful Ipsea (Bot. Mag., t. 5701). — Orchidaceae. A beau-tiful terrestrial orchid, a native of Ceylon. The rhizomes are tuberous and hard,as large as a nut, or larger ; leaf usually solitary from the rhizome ; scape one totwo flowered ; flowers two and a half inches in diameter, golden-yellow, withfaint red lines on the disk of the lip. Hibiscus 7)tariiiora1us, Marble-flowered Hibiscus (Bot. Mag., t. 5702). — Mal-vaceae. A fine plant, native of Mexico: it flowered in the stove at Kew in Feb-ruary, but is described as a greenhouse-plant by Lemaire and Planchon. It isa freely-branching shrub, with bright green oblong-cordate leaves and smallish ^f.
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