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25. LOBELIA Texensis, Raf. 
Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Icones plantarum, t. 33. 
L. Texensis ; ‘‘ puberula ; caule subflexuoso, simplici; foliis sessilibus, ob- 
longo-lanceolatis, patentissimis, acutis, versus apicem attenuatis, margine 
atro-sanguineo denticulatis, supra læte-viridibus, subtus pallide-viri- 
dibus ; floribus racemosis, terminalibus ; bracteis lanceolatis aut ovatis, 
acuminatis, sessilibus, pedicello compresso, tortuoso, supra basin bi- 
bracteolato, longioribus ; lobis calycinis subulatis, atro-purpureis, mar- 
gine puberulis, inferne acuto-dentatis ; labio corollæ inferiore profunde 
tripartito, lobis angustis, acutis, amoene puniceis ; tubo corollæ glabro, 
coccineo." 
This supposed species has been taken up in DeCandolle's 
Prodromus, and has been figured for the first time in Link, 
Klotzsch and Otto's Zcones. It belongs to the same set with 
L. fulgens, splendens, and cardinalis, and is very much like 
the last. It is a Mexican species, and will require some 
protection in winter. 
26. MAXILLARIA Lyonii. 
M. Lyonii; acaulis, pseudobulbis ovatis compressis lævibus nec angulatis 
corrugatisve, foliis lineari-lanceolatis apice obliqué emarginatis, floribus 
solitariis, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis striatis, labello oblongo 
retuso emarginato intra apicem scabro, tuberculo oblongo in medio prope 
basin. 
A little species imported from Mexico by J. C. Lyons, Esq. 
of Ladiston, near Mullingar. It has very narrow grassy 
leaves, and ovate smooth somewhat glaucous pseudobulbs. 
'The flowers are dull purplish brown, very slightly bordered 
with a yellow tint. à 
27. HELCIA sanguinolenta. 
Among the unexamined plants collected by Mr. Hartweg 
for the Horticultural Society, was a plant supposed to be a 
species of Trichopilia, of which it has entirely the habit, col- 
lected at Paccha, a miserable village in the Andes of Guaya- 
quil. Having now flowered, I am able to state that although 
it certainly approaches nearly to that genus, yet it is in reality 
an entirely new form. Instead of its column being rolled up 
in the labellum, it stands erect and clear of it. Instead of the 
anther having but one cell, it has two. Instead of the anther- 
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