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M. Galeotti, this rare plant has flowered in the collection of 
Richard Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh. It agrees extremely 
well with the character and description given by Mr. Bateman 
in the place above quoted; to which I may add that the ept- 
chilium is strictly linear, the two edges being as nearly as 
possible parallel with each other, and not a great deal broader 
than the column; a mark by which the species is immediately 
recognized. 
148. EPIDENDRUM (Spathium) bisetum ; racemo nutante, sepalis obovato- 
oblongis obtusis, petalis setaceis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus sub- 
cuneatis retusis intermedia biloba basi tuberculis tribus munita, ovario 
scabro. 
A native of Guatemala, imported by the Horticultural 
Society, and flowered by Messrs. Loddiges. It is a plant 
allied to Ep. nutans, with much smaller flowers, more com- 
pactly arranged, and with a strong smell of cowslips. The 
ovaries are rough with elevated points, the sepals are brownish 
orange, the lip dull fawn colour. The petals are in the form 
of two fine bristles. 
149. BERBERIS ¢rifoliata ; (Hartweg in litt.) sempervirens, glauca, erecta, 
fruticosa; foliis trifoliolatis, foliolis ovatis sessilbus sinuato-spinosis 
acuminatis: venis lacteis, baccis sphzericis. 
This most beautiful evergreen shrub has been raised from 
seeds collected in Mexico by Mr. Hartweg, and has been dis- 
tributed by the Horticultural Society. I fear it will not prove 
hardy, but even if requiring a greenhouse it yields to no 
species in cultivation. The flowers are unknown. The leaves 
are on long slender stalks, and have three leaflets which are 
perfectly sessile ; each of the latter is glaucous, of an ovate 
form, with spiny sinuosities, and delicate pale veins like those 
of the milk-thistle. It isa plant of great rarity, and will long 
remain so from the difficulty of propagating such plants. Mr. 
Hartweg found it on the road from Zacatecas to San Luis de 
Potosi: an immense plain occupied chiefly by Opuntias, 
stunted plants of Prosopis dulcis, and Yuccas; it covered 
large tracts of country. 
150. LYSIMACHIA /obelioides; (Wallich mss.) caulibus ascendentibus, foliis 
oppositis ovatis subserratis breviter petiolatis, racemis terminalibus nudis 
