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A very singular but not handsome species from Manilla. 

 It is no. 273 of Messrs. Loddiges' collection, in which it 

 flowered a few days since. The stems are erect, about a foot 

 high, stiff, and strong. The leaves are from five to six inches 

 long, and two and a half broad. The flowers are small, 

 whitish, in axillary fasciculi. Their lip is very curious, 

 being broken up at the point into a kind of broom, consisting 

 of long entangled eurling threads. 



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56. TROLLIUS acaulis. 



T. acaulis; foliis digitalis, laciniis tripartita pinnatifidis, pedunculo brevis- 

 simo uuifloro, flore stellato : sepalis 9 lanceolatis subincisis, petalis 

 lineari-cuneatis apice rotundatis. 



A singular little plant, raised in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society from seeds from the North of India, presented 



the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India 

 Company. The flower is solitary, hardly elevated above the 

 surface of the ground, and quite overtopped by the leaves ; 

 it has not the globose form of the other species," but expands 

 its deep yellow sepals in a starry manner. The petals are 

 deep orange colour. There are fifteen carpels. It is not a 

 very attractive plant, because its flowers are hidden among the 

 leaves ; were it not for that it would be a rival to Eranthis 

 hiemalis. 



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57. PEDICULARIS megalantha. Wallich. 



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Rather a pretty herbaceous plant, with large yellow 

 flowers, raised from Himalayan seeds sent to the Horticultural 

 Society by the Honourable Court of Directors of the East 

 India Company. The upper lip of the corolla is narrow, 

 beaked, and half spirally twisted below the under lip, which 

 is hooded, three-lobed, very deep yellow, with the side divi- 

 sions rounded and emarginate, while the central division is 

 inversely wedge-shaped. The flowers grow in long terminal 

 spikes. The foliage, which is pinnatifid with narrow doubly 

 dentate divisions, has a pallid hue, as if sicklv ; perhaps from 

 its cultivation not being understood. 



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