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its wrong place in the work above quoted. Although the 

 flowers are among the smallest in the genus, they are ex- 

 tremely pretty. The labellum is a pure dead alabaster 

 white, except at its base, where it is covered with yellow and 

 brown tubercles. The sepals and petals are gaily barred 

 and spotted with brown, while the column has two large 

 pink-spotted spreading wings.* Jacquin describes the spe- 

 cies as having a flowering scape two feet high ; that which 

 appeared in the Horticultural Garden was scarcely more 

 than six inches high, for the plant, though healthy, was weak, 

 and had suff'ered from its voyage. When in perfection this 

 species will be found among the handsomest of the small- 

 flowered epiphytes. 



57. PULTEN^A obcordata. 



Plants of this pretty leguminous species, raised from 

 Van Diemen's Land seeds, flowered lately in the garden of 

 Robert Mangles, Esq. of Sunning Hill. It is a hardy green- 

 house shrub, of the easiest cultivation. 



58. VANlLLA bicolor. 



V. bicolor ; foliis ovato-oblongis 



bus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis patentibus dorso rotundat.s petalis 

 confonnibus dorso caVinatIs, labello membranaceo semihbero convoluto ven.s 

 ramentaceis medio dens^ ramentaceo-stuposo, columna barbata : auncuhs 



crenulatis. 



A deliciously fragrant climbing .epiphyte, sent by Mr. 

 Schomburgk to Messrs. Loddiges from Guayana, Its flowers 

 ftill three inches long, with dull red sepals and petals 



and a cream-coloured lip. It is very different from any 



species yet described in this most curious and interesting 

 but little studied genus. It flowered freely in the month ot 

 April. 



59. CYMBIDItJM virescens. 



C virescens ; (Eucymbidiuni) foliis gramineis recurvis serrulatis subtrinerviis, 

 scapo laxe vaginato unifloro, pedunculo tereti bractea duplo longiore, sepalis 

 linearibus obtusis concavis patentibus, petalis brevioribus conformibus supra 

 columnam conniventibus, labello oblongo indiviso anice revoluto imberbi 

 pHcis duabus camosis lamellatis apice liberis fovea truncate uregulan 

 utrinque infra apicem plicarum. 



