Bee Yin 
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Ghent. It is a curious plant, flowering without leaves, about 
8 inches high, smooth, with 3 or 4 large semi-transparent 
loose sheaths, streaked with rose-colour. The flowers are 
enclosed in a head of such sheaths, are downy outside, white, 
with green streaks outside, and a yellow blotch below the 
point of the white lip. Probably a native of Mexico. 
21. SCHOMBURGKIA undulata. 
S. undulata ; floribus dense racemosis, bracteis longissimis spathaceis, sepalis 
petalisque sequalibus undulato-crispis labello longioribus, labelli lobis 
lateralibus rotundatis intermedio ovali acuto trilamellato lineis minoribus 
elevatis interjectis. 
This is a beautiful species received by Mr. Rucker from 
Linden, who gathered it in La Guayra. It has fine rich 
brownish purple sepals and petals, and a clear violet-purple 
lip. From S.'crispa it differs in having the middle lobe of 
the lip oval acute, and only 3-ribbed, while the side lobes are 
much smaller and flatter; from S. marginata, with which it 
corresponds in the form of the lip, it is distinguished by its 
very long narrow crisp sepals and petals. The flowers are as 
large as those of S. tibicinis, but the inflorescence is quite 
different. Unless my memory fails me, there is a represen- 
tation of this plant among Plumier’s figures, which I have not 
just now an opportunity of consulting. 
22. COBURGIA miniata. 
C. miniata ; foliis virentibus 3-pedalibus scapo compresso sequalibus,” peri- 
anthii tubo anguste clavato limbo triplo longiore, ovario pedicello sub- 
zequali, filamentis basi membranaceis utrinque dilatatis vix in coronulam 
brevissimam connatis. 
The leaves of this plant are full three feet long, and less 
than an inch broad, bright green, but nevertheless coated by 
a bloom too thin to render them distinctly glaucous. The 
scape is of the same height, very slightly glaucous. The 
flowers, when young, are almost white, with a vermilion tinge 
on the back, and a little green at their points. When full 
grown they are two inches and a half long, and the vermilion 
colour overspreads them almost entirely. The filaments are 
very slightly dilated at the base into membrane, and scarcely 
form a cup. This has the slenderest flowers of any species 
