MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 
*.* The Botanical memoranda published in the last 
volume of this work under the above title, have enabled me 
to bring before the public no fewer than 183 plants, the 
greater part of which are new, in addition to the 68 of which 
figures were published; so that no fewer than 251 plants 
have been the subject of illustration during a single year. 
I have reason to believe that this arrangement has proved 
advantageous to the purchasers of the Botanical Register, 
since it has been the means of informing them what the real 
character is of the new plants whose names are found in sale 
catalogues, and of enabling them to judge how far they may 
be deserving of being purchased. 
The experiment having thus far succeeded, it is now 
proposed to commence what I hope will be found an im- 
provement upon the plan, by adding to the notices of plants 
a short account of such new books or new discoveries, &c. in 
Horticulture and Botany, as are of sufficient importance or 
interest to deserve to be recorded. In order to gain space 
for this addition, a little alteration in the typographical 
arrangements has been found necessary. 
1, PLEUROTHALLIS pectinata ; folio oblongo acuto cochleato glauco caule 
ancipiti breviore, spicá simplici distichá in folium proná eoque breviore, 
bracteis membranaceis cucullatis ovarii longitudine, sepalis pubescentibus 
elongatis intermedio lineari lateralibus latioribus basi ventricosis approxi- 
matis omnino liberis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, labello unguiculato oblongo 
basi pectinato apice truncato denticulato. 
A curious species, resembling P. prolifera in habit. It 
was obtained from Rio Janeiro by Messrs. Loddiges. The 
flowers are sea green, with a few deep purple spots at the 
base of the labellum. The leaf is so firm, and so much 
hollowed out, that it is capable of holding water, as if it were 
made of metal. 
A. January, 1839. a 
