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flower. I had long. suspected C. sulph. striatus and stellaris 
of such an origin, as they have not been found except in 
gardens, though there is in the Banksian herbarium a damaged 
specimen, which has much affinity to striatus, but differs in 
the bulb coat, said to have been found by Russell, near 
Aleppo. I cannot, however, hear of it in that neighbour- 
hood. C. Adamicus, the bluest of the genus, proves to be a 
native of Caucasus, not, as Mons. Gay imagined, of Tauria. 
Ws H 
40. BEGONIA stigmosa. 
B. stigmosa ; caule brevissimo repente, foliis obliquè cordatis acutis indivisis 
ciliatis subintegris supra maculis quibusdam discoloribus compressis 
subtus glabriusculis, petiolis ramentaceis, paniculä subeymosä, floribus 
dipetalis, capsule alis obtusis alterá maxima. 
This species was presented by Messrs. Loddiges to the 
Horticultural Society, under the name of B. stigmata, pro- 
bably a clerical error for stigmosa; but we do not find it 
mentioned in the recent enumeration of the genus by Walpers. 
Its flowers are white, not very large, but produced in cymose 
panicles. In the presence of ragged scales on the leaf-stalks 
it resembles B. manicata ; but it differs in its mode of growth, 
and in the form of its fruit. Its real position is somewhere in 
the neighbourhood of the much handsomer B. hydrocotyli- 
folia. Its name alludes to the brownish purple spots with 
which the leaves are marked. 
41. DENDROBIUM anosmum. 
D. anosmum ; facie omind D. macrophylli et colore ; sepalis ovato-lanceo- 
latis, petalis oblongis planis nec oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis, labello 
subrotundo acuto. 
This is a Philippine plant, which has lately flowered with 
Messrs Loddiges. Its appearance is very much that of 
D. macrophyllum, but, 1. its flowers are scentless, and have 
not the strong odour of rhubarb ; 2. they are smaller; 3. all 
the divisions of the flower are shorter, broader, and even, 
instead of being undulating. Whether or not it is really a 
species experience will show ; it is at all events a remarkable 
variety. 
