MISCELLANEOUS MATTER 
OF THE 
BOTANICAL REGISTER. 
1844. 
1. CELOGYNE fuscescens. 
Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. p. 41. 
A plant of this rare species flowered at Sion in the end of 
last November. Its blossoms are perhaps the largest in the 
genus, but want the brilliancy necessary to render them very 
striking. They are of a pale greenish yellow, without any 
markings except on the lip, which has a few brown spots 
towards the base, a broad brown band along the middle of 
each side lobe, and three vermilion coloured streaks in the 
centre. . We fear that brighter suns than those of November 
will hardly destroy the green sufficiently to render this com- 
parable with some species, notwithstanding its large flowers. 
2. LELIA virens. 
L. virens; sepalis suberectis ovatis petalisque lanceolatis subzequalibus, labello 
oblongo obsoleté trilobo cucullato apice ovato crispo lineà obsoletä ele- 
vatá versus basin, column. cardine unidentato. 
A Brazilian plant, of which 1 have only seen a single 
flower. Mr. Loddiges, whose number 647 it is, informs me 
that it has quite the habit of Cattleya crispa. The flowers 
are very pale yellowish green, of no beauty, and about the size 
of Maxillaria alba, which they are something like. The 
number of pollen-masses is certainly eight, which makes the 
plant a Lelia and not a Cattleya. 
A.—1844. a 
