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acuminatis herbaceis, floribus sessilibus, labello rhombeo-oblongo glabro 
lamellis 2 intramarginalibus pone basin. 
At length Messrs. Loddiges have succeeded in flowering 
a species of Sobralia, which was found in Demerara by Mr. 
Schomburgk ; unfortunately, however, not one of the finest 
species. I previously possessed wild specimens of it from Mr. 
Schomburgk, and they show that the garden plant is quite as 
perfect as in its native meadows. It has a reed-like stem 
covered with small black hairs ; and stiff-ribbed taper-pointed 
leaves. From the summit of the stem there appears a single 
rose-coloured flower, which is very fugacious. The lip is 
many degrees darker than the other parts. The plant will 
shortly be figured with a further account of it. 
12. MONACHANTHUS Bushnani. Hooker in Botanical Magazine, t. 3832. 
This plant is clearly a slight variety of Catasetum (Mo- 
nachanthus) discolor, with the colour more yellow-green than 
usual, and the apex of the lip produced into a sharp point. 
If care is not taken we shall have the genus Catasetum a most 
prolific source of spurious species, as indeed it has already 
become. In some instances it is difficult to judge whether a 
new form is specifically distinct or not; but in the present 
instance there can be no doubt upon the subject. This is a 
rather pretty variety. 
13. CALECTASIA eyanea. R. Brown Prodromus Flore Nove Hollandic, 
p- 264. Flinders’s Voyage, Appendix t. 9. 
This, one of the most beautiful plants of the Australasian 
flora, has recently been well figured in the Botanical Maga- 
zine, t. 3834. We however regret to say that the species still 
remains to be introduced. Our object in calling attention to 
the figure is, that persons in communication with Western 
Australia may transmit that figure to their correspondents 
with a request that its ripe seeds may be sent home. It is a 
very common shrub in sandy soil, at Swan River, Kine. 
George’s Sound, and probably on all parts of the South-west 
coast. It is doubtful whether our gardens yet possess airy 
species so perfectly beautiful as this is, and as its flown 
retain their brilliant colours when dried, it is probable that it 
will prove, when we obtain it, a new kind of « Everlasting.” 
