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an imbricated manner, are quite blue with bloom on the 
underside. The flowers are pure white, except a spot of 
yellow at the very base of each division. 
68. HABROTHAMNUS cyaneus. 
H. cyaneus; incano-tomentosus, foliis ovato-oblongis undulatis acuminatis 
etiolatis, floribus aggregatis axillaribus pedunculatis, calyce ventricoso 
asi obtuso 5-dentato irregulari, corollà cylindraceà truncatä 5-dentatä 
margine albo pubescente, staminibus corolle longitudine, filamentis 
infra medium villosis. 
This promises to be a plant of some importance, notwith- 
standing a coarse grey downy foliage; for it produces in 
great profusion clusters of long flowers of a deep porcelain 
blue colour. The corolla has so abrupt a termination that it 
looks as if it had been eaten off by some insect. Mr. Hart- 
weg found it forming a shrub four to six feet high, on the 
mountains of Yangana, near Loxa. It has lately flowered in 
the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
69. GALEANDRA cristata. 
G. cristata ; sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis reflexis, labello convoluto 
margine crispo intus pubescente et basi bicarinato calcare acuminato 
horizontali, antherze cristá rhombeá unguiculatá. 
A native of Cayenne, whence it was received by Messrs. 
Loddiges (Cat. 1308) in 1840. It has the habit of G. 
Devoniana, but the flowers are much smaller and paler, and 
the anther has a very singular crest, resembling a purple 
lozenge mounted on a white shaft, 
70. BOLBOPHYLLUM recurvum. 
Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 58. no. 30. 
It is a very curious fact that this little plant, originally 
brought from Sierra Leone, should prove to be also an inha- 
bitant of the New World. . 'That it is so has been ascertained 
by Messrs. Loddiges, who received it from Guiana in 1839 ; 
the specimens that have just flowered having proved to be 
identical in all respects with the African plant. Angrecum 
t (Eceoclades maculatum is another instance of the same 
ind. 
