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deep Lapis Lazuli blue. It was raised by Messrs. Lowe and 

 Co. of Clapton, from seeds received from Mr. Tweedie of 

 Buenos Ayres, in the autumn of 1835. A figure of it will 

 hereafter appear in this work. 



2. SCHUBERTIA graveSlens. 



S. graveolens ; caule villoso, foliis cordatis obovatis obtusis molliter pubescenti- 

 bus supra lucidis, umbella 6-7-flora pilosa corollae tubo intus nudo lacinias 

 limbi ovatas aequante. 



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From Mr. J. A. Henderson of the Nursery, Pine Apple 

 Place, New Road, to whom it had been sent by Lady Wilton, 

 having been raised in her garden from Brazilian seed. 



It is a pretty stove twiner, with hairy stems, deep green 

 downy leaves, and large cream-coloared flowers, with a strong 

 but not disagreeable odour. It differs from Schubertia gran- 

 diflora in the leaves being very obtuse, and the tube of the 

 corolla quite beardless inside. 



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3. EPIDENDRUM Pastoris. 



La Llave Gen. 8j Sp. Orch. p. 98. 



A Mexican epiphyte, with narrow pale green leaves, 

 growing in pairs or threes upon pale, yellowish green, fusi- 

 form, erect pseudo-bulbs. The flowers are two or three in 

 number, upon a smooth yellowish- green slender scape, hardly 

 so long as the leaves. They are about the size or those of 

 Epid. odoratissimum. The sepals and petals are very nar- 

 row, sharp-pointed, and striped with dull chocolate-purple, 

 upon a dingy olive-coloured ground, and slightly bent back. 

 The lip is white, united to the column for about half its 

 length, folded up, so that its edges almost meet, with two 

 narrow sharp-pointed purple-striped lobes, one on each side 

 at the base, and three round wrinkled elevated ribs along 

 its middle. It is fully described in La Llave and Lexarza's 

 work on Mexican plants ; but I do not find the scape anci- 

 pitous as^ those authors represent ; it is a little compressed 

 and that is all. They speak of the flowers having a powerful 

 Vanilla fragrance, but of this I could not judge on account of 

 the coldness of the weather when the specimen reached me. 

 A correct figure will be found in Link and Otto s Abbildun- 

 gen Neuer und Seltener Gewachse, plate 12. « 



