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viridis, hooded, undivided, and of a dull greenish colour tinged 
with dull purple. The column too, has in like manner lost 
its cirrhi, has shortened, and its lengthened beak has also 
disappeared. 
158. OPHELIA purpurascens. Don in Edinb. Philos. Mag. 1836. Jan. 
A pretty little herbaceous plant, with narrow pale green 
leaves, and starry pink flowers with green glands at the base 
of the petals. It is a native of the northern parts of India, 
and has been recently raised by the Horticultural Society from 
the important distributions of the East India Company. It 
may be expected to prove hardy, but will probably be only 
annual. 
159. SPIRJEÁ rotundifolia. 
Among a collection of seeds from Cashmere, collected by 
Dr. Falconer, and presented by the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company to the Horticultural Society, was this, 
which, although it has not yet flowered, is evidently a new 
species of the hardy genus Spirea, belonging to the same di- 
vision as JS. vacciniifolia. It has slender, angular, downy 
shoots, and roundish oblong blunt leaves crenated at the 
upper end above the middle, but entire on the lower half; 
they measure on an average seven lines in length and six in 
breadth ; their petiole is about a line long, and downy. I 
cannot find such a plant described any where, and it is un- 
questionably new to our gardens. 
160. QUERCUS acutifolia. Humb. & Bonpl. pl. «quin. 2. 55. t. 95. 
161. —— reticulata. Id. Ib. — 2.40. t. 86. 
162. ——— crassipes. Id. 15.:— 2. 37. t. 83, 
163. — ————— spicata. Id. Ab. 2546. t 8% 
lo: mexicana. 1d. Ib... 2.35. t. BO 
165. — glaucescens. Id. Ib. 2.29 i 79 
166. —— siderozyla. Id. 4 oles 2 909A 
o AA lancifolia. Cham. & Schlecht. Linn. 5. 78. 
168. =— petiolaris. Benth. plant. Hartweg. no. 420. 
All the foregoing are Mexican oaks, recently raised in the 
