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marked with brownish stripes. The lip is jointed so loosely 
with its support that it falls forward every time the flower is 
waved by the wind; a phenomenon common, if not universal, 
among the Bolbophylla, but in none of them more remarkable 
than in this case. Both sepals and petals are so arranged | 
that they converge very much like the human fingers when 
they are brought together without being bent; this circum- 
stance has suggested the specific name. | 
57. VANDA parviflora. 
V. parviflora; racemo simplici, sepalis oblongis, petalis linearibus spathu- 
latis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus ascendentibus acutis intermedio 
oblongo canaliculato spongioso bilamellato apice circulari denticulato, 
calcare angusto obtuso. 
This little plant is a native of Bombay, whence Messrs. 
Loddiges received it. ‘The flowers are small, pale ochre- 
coloured, with a lip sprinkled all over with extremely fine 
purple points; the middle lobe of the lip is rather spongy, 
has two broad ridges, between which runs a channel, and at the 
point it is almost exactly circular, with a a few small toothings. 
'The four pollen-masses adhere to a narrow strap connected 
with a broad gland; but the rostellum is not in any degree 
extended into a beak. The habit of the plant is, I am 
informed, that of Vanda lamellata. 
58. SPATHOGLOTTIS plicata. 
Blume Bijdragen, p. 401. t. 76. 
This very pretty plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, 
who received it from Penang. It has light purple flowers, 
and has quite the appearance of Paxtonia. 
59. ANEMONE Govaniana. 
Wall. Cat. No. 4688. 
This pretty little alpine plant, from great heights on the 
mountains of Nepal, has flowered in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where it was raised from seeds pre- 
sented by the East India Company. It has woolly palmated 
rather leathery radical leaves, and umbels of white long- 
