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ticulo interjecto interne bicalloso, column truncate denticulate angulis 
anticis dentiformibus. 
Messrs. Loddiges having imported this little Orchidaceous 
plant from Java, it is to be presumed that it must be one of 
those enumerated by Dr. Blume; and as none of his defini- 
tions suit it well, except that of D. abbreviatum, we must 
conclude that this must be what he intended by that name. 
Nevertheless, it is difficult to reconcile his statement that the 
lip of that plant has a reflexed tooth on each side at the base, 
unless we suppose that he intended to describe the heart- 
shaped base of the lip. The plant has little beauty. The 
flowers are small, green, with a white lip, having a yellow 
stain in its middle. The column is a deep cinnamon brown, 
truncated and notched, with the front angles a little lengthened 
into teeth. The lateral lobes of the column, found in other 
species, are deficient in this. The pollen is white, separates 
into 4 soft masses, having as many thread-like tails by which 
they adhere to the point of the stigma, which will even come 
off with them, like the gland of Vandex. ‘This structure 
requires to be investigated with more care than we have yet 
been able to give it. 
35. NARCISSUS montanus. 
In our last vol. at p- 3, 4, 5, of art. 33, it was stated that 
the native place of this plant was unknown, and that it might 
perhaps be made by crossing N. dubius with pollen of the 
whitest musk daffodil, N. candidissimus of Redouté. Culti- 
vated above 200 years ago by Parkinson, who received it as 
a mountain plant from a collector whose honesty he praises, it 
was understood to have been brought from the Pyrenées; but, 
as it did not appear to have been found since, and seems to be 
sterile by its own pollen, I suspected it of fraudulent hybrid 
origin. Thinking, however, that the yellow and red cup of 
N. poeticus could not be sufficiently discharged by a cross with 
the musk daffodil, I fancied that N. dubius must be the female 
parent. It appears however that I had underrated the power, 
always predominant, of the male type,and that I had already 
made the plant, having obtained a single seedling from N. 
poeticus v. stellaris, by the whitest Ajax moschatus. It has 
now flowered, and does not differ more from N. montanus 
(Tros poeuliformis of Haworth) than might occur amongst 
