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teresting as a second species of the genus Sarcochilus. The 

 flowers are green, with a few spots of dull purple in the 

 sepals. The labellum is less green, beneath indeed almost 

 white, banded with dull purple, articulated with the column, 

 and covered over in the inside with various crowded tuber- 

 cles, of which the three largest form a crescent next the apex 

 of the lip. 



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51. PHILADELPHUS triflorus. Wallich, 



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A plant of this rare species, raised from seeds obtained 

 from the Himalaya mountains by Dr. Royle, has lately 

 flowered imperfectly in the garden of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. It has the habit of P. laxus, aud is slightly but agree- 

 ably fragrant. It will probably prove quite hardy ; and is 

 no doubt distinct from P. tomentosus from the same country, 

 which more resembles P. grandiflorus. 



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52. RIBES Menziesii. Smith. 



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Among the last parcel of Californian seeds received by 

 the Horticultural Society from the late Mr. Douglas, were 

 some of a Ribes, allied to R. speciosum, which have now been 

 ascertained to belong to this rare and little known species. 

 The young branches are densely covered with fine slender 

 bristles, so as to give the plant the appearance of E. lacustrCy 

 but it is totally different from that species in its flowers, 

 which are solitary, axillary, and nodding in the axils of the 

 leaves. Judging from dried specimens, they must be nearly 

 of the same colour as R. speciosum, but paler. They are 

 smaller, and have not the long projecting crimson stamens 

 which give R. speciosum so strikingly beautiful an appearance. 

 The plants have not yet flowered, but may be expected to do 

 so next year ; they appear to be hardy. 



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53. CIRRHOPETALUM caespitosum. Wall. Mss. 



C. caspitosum; pseudobulbis ovatis monophyllis, follls angustfe oyalibus obtusls 

 basi angnstatis scapo longiorlbus, scapo fillformi erecto vaginis paucis raem- 

 branaceis carinatis acutis distantibus hxh vestito apice urabellato, sepalo 

 supremo obovato fornlcato acuto inarglne scabro lateralibus acummatis con- 

 volutis trJplo longiorlbus, petalls ovatis apiculatis pectinato-serratis, labello 

 minimo solido triquetro apice recurvo angulis superioribus marguiatis. 



