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articulati. Sepala 4, alba, erecta, Iinearla, acuta, concava, cxtiis stcUatim 

 tomentosa. Petala totidem, paul6 latiora et brevipra, obtusa, glabra. 

 iS^amina iiumerosa, hypogyna, flava, omnia fertilia; filamentis exteriorlbus 

 dorso varicosis, interloribus laevibus ; antheris parvis bilocularibus. Ova- 

 rium parvum, ovatum, hispidum, 4-Ioculare; loculis serie duplici polyspcr- 

 niis; s^3//w5 filiformis; sfi^wa obsoletissim^ 4-lobum. 



127. CYNOGLOSSUM grandifl6rum. 



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Bentham in Royles Illustr.p. 305. 



A beautiful herbaceous plant, first found by Dr. Royle in 

 Cashmere, and in various places in the north of India. It has 

 been recently raised from seeds sent to this country from 

 Bombay by John Nimmo, Esq. It grows nearly three feet 

 high, has a strong, purple, branching, erect stem, the ramifi- 

 cations of which are simple or racemose, and terminated 

 racemes of bright blue flowers, whose corolla is bordered 

 with white. 



128. HYDROT^NIA Meleagris. 



Among a collection of plants formed on mountain pas- 

 tures near the Real del Monte mines in Mexico, this curious 

 genus was received by John Rogers, Esq. Jun. of Seven Oaks, 

 to whom I am indebted for a sketch, with various memoranda, 

 and a flower preserved in spirits. It looks something like a 

 Tigridia bearing the flower of a Fritillary. The stem is about 

 18 inches high, and bears a single, straight-veined, plaited 

 leaf. The spathe is leafy, convolute, 2i inches long, and con- 

 tains from 4 to 5 flowers which open in succession ; each is 

 in colour and form very like a JFritillaina pyrenaica, but 

 smaller ; the petals, which are slightly unguiculate, and 

 marked with a few broken bands of crimson, have at their 

 base a triangular glandular bar, the point of which is directed 

 upwards, secreting honey, and when fresh slightly excavated 

 into hollows resembling a row of pearls placed on a pale yel- 

 low ground. The name of the genus refers to this circum- 

 stance of a band secreting fluid. The stigmas appear to be 

 six, alternating with the anthers in pairs; but in reality 

 there are three stjdes, each diverging near the apex into two 

 arms, with an intermediate mucro in their sinus, opposite 



