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we question whether our plant may not eventually be con- 
sidered merely a spotted variety of P. cerina.” Said to have 
been imported from Rio Janeiro—but this is doubtful It 
flowered with Mr. Barker. 
€ 34. SOLANUM Rossii; caule fruticoso prostrato tereti gracili racemoso 
aculeis compressis armato, foliis binis vel ternis insequalibus pubescen- 
tibus breviter petiolatis costis suprà aculeatis basi ineequalibus imis ob- 
longo-sinuatis superioribus cordatis subobtusis, floribus quadrifidis te- 
trandris ternis longè pedicellatis, antheris sequalibus. Knowles Y West- 
cott, Floral Cabinet, v. 2. p. 141. 
A Mexican greenhouse shrub, with pale blue flowers ; 
“the upper part clothed with fulvous pubescence, prickly 
throughout, remarkably compressed, of a reddish-brown co- 
lour, and slightly recurved.” 
q 35. EPIDENDRUM crispatum ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis diphyllis, foliis li- 
neari-lanceolatis carnosis obtusis submucronatis, scapo multifloro, petalis 
et sepalis linearibus striatis, petalis sepalis minoribus, labello tripartito 
_ laciniis lateralibus columnam involventibus intermedia elongata crispata 
(dupld longiore), ovario varicoso. Knowles $ Westcott, Floral Cabinet, 
v. 2. p. 79. 
Imported from Mexico by Mr. Barker. “ The contrast 
between the long crisped white labellum, and sepals and 
petals, is very pleasing and striking.” It is one of the many 
species of the Encyclia division of the genus, all of which re- 
quire a careful comparison with each other. It must be very 
near E. pictum, Bot. Reg. misc. 1838. no. 42. 
«| 36. WEINMANNÍA venosa ; foliis coriaceis sessilibus decussatis oblongo- 
ovatis irregularitér inciso-dentatis venosis, floribus verticillato-spicatis, 
petalis glabris linearibus pallide roseis, bracteis petalisque pubescentibus, 
capsulis hirsutis, floribus decandris. Knowles $ Westcott, Floral Cabi- 
net, t. 65. 
A New Holland greenhouse shrub, from the Birmingham 
Botanical Garden. “It possesses a singular and pleasing 
appearance, having its dense spikes of flowers crowned with 
purple leaves, its stem red, and its leaves strongly veined with 
red. It is a plant of slow growth and a rigid habit.” 
The pentamerous flowers separate it from Weinmannia. Is 
it really a New Holland plant ? 
4 37. BRASSIA cochleata ; sepalis petalisque subsequalibus linearibus acu- 
minatis, labello elongato cochleato acuminato. Knowles § Westcott, 
Floral Cabinet, t. 53. 
A native of Demerara, where it was found by Henchman. 
