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185. SARCANTHUS pallidus; folis distichis coriaceis ligulatis apice ob- 
. liqué retusis paniculá multiflora ramosâ multó brevioribus, labelli lobo 
medio solido tereti incurvo. 
Brought to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire from 
India by Mr. Gibson. It is a plant with the foliage of 
Aerides odoratum, or some such plant; but its flowers are 
small, pale, and by no means beautiful, although they are 
extremely numerous, and arranged in a panicle a foot and a 
half long. ‘They are about the size of S. teretifolius, of a 
dirty greenish white, with a faint purple streak through the 
middle of each sepal and petal, and with the intermediate 
lobe of the lip dull yellow. 
186. COMPARETTIA rosea; foliis subsessilibus, racemo pendulo laxo pau- 
cifloro, labelli lamina subrotundo-oblongá calcare subulato breviore. 
A delicate little Orchidaceous plant from the Spanish 
Main, with a slender drooping stem, bearing four or five 
flowers of a bright rich rose colour near its apex. I am in- 
debted for it to Messrs. Loddiges, (no. 752). 
Chenopodearum Monographica enumeratio, auctore A Moquin Tandon. 
Paris, 1840. 8vo. 
An important contribution to the progress of. syste- 
matical Botany, which, if it bears but little upon Garden 
pante, has at least a material connection with our Domestic 
ora. 
The Chenopodiaceous order is universally ugly, and 
generally useless; there is hardly a species that deserves a 
better place than a heap of rubbish, where indeed they are 
generally found, as if they really possessed the virtue of hu- 
mility and knew their station. That kind of affection which 
leads a man to spend years of his life in contemplating such 
things, can only be compared to the tender care with which a 
reptile or a monkey is sometimes caressed. But as such 
plants must be put in order by some one, in order that all 
things may find their fitting place in the scheme of classifica- 
tion, the world is much indebted to those who undertake the 
uninviting office. M. Moquin Tandon appears to have ex- 
ecuted it with care. He refers Chenopodium Botrys and its 
allies to a genus called Ambrina; Ch. Bonus Henricus, for- 
merly regarded by him as a peculiar genus (Agathophyton) 
1s now a Blitum ; and Atriplex pedunculata goes to the genus 
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