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readily distinguish this from O. pergameneum, which has 



also the lip broadest, not narrowest, at the base, and entirely 



different leaves. Mr. Bateman has named it in compliment 



* to Captain Sutton, R.N. who has brought so many valuable 



plants from America to England. In his note Mr. Bateman 



writes of the plant thus : i_ i_ i. 



" The habit is more distinct than the flowers, though they 

 have an aspect which cannot be mistaken. Pseudo-bulbs 

 from an inch to an inch and a half high, ovate, compressed, 

 deeply furrowed, bearing two rather long narrow linear leaves ; 

 "flower-stems few flowered, and usually both m native and cul- 

 tivated specimens shorter than the leaves, and drooping ; 

 occasionally the spike is longer, and a little branched, but this 

 is very rare. The buff lip gives it a characteristic look. 

 The species is very pretty/' 



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9. MINA lobata. 



DeLaLlave et Lexarza Novorum veget. descrip.fasc. 1. p. 3. 



This is a convolvulaceous plant of much beauty and more 



singularity, for which we are indebted to George Freder ck 



fee . .,.„.. ^•z«~%tez-?°rg£ 



flowers 



2rew in forked erect racemes, and have not at all the _ aspect 01 



f Convolvulus. At first they are deep crimson, but when 



expanded are of a pale lemon colour. rvmr foA as 



P By all modern authors this genus Mina is regarded as 



the same with Exogonium, an error, as I conceive, which can 

 In y "risen %m the plant itself not h™*^»££ 



i It is in reality quite a distinct form of thej ^~^ 



! order, as I st.au shew when the figure appears in a tuture 



number. According to the authors above quoted it is cuU 



vated by the Mexicans for the beauty of the flowers It w« 

 no doubt be a green-house plant ; but is at present^ » » 

 . lection except That of the Hort.cultura S « n ^ h ' Ch 



was most liberally presented by the Earl of Burlington. 





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