sent to Spofforth from Boston in North America by J. W. 
Boorr, Esq., who had purchased it at Mr, Knieurt’s nursery 
on the King’s Road, Chelsea, and it is stated to be a native 
of Bolivia. It conforms very closely in structure with 
Sprexewia formosissima, and agrees with it in having pollen 
Narrower, and more acute than Hirreastrum. The two 
genera are closely allied, but no Hirreastrum has the 
filaments closely embraced by the lower lip, being enclosed 
by a dilatation of the lower part of the two inferior sepals. 
The nearest approximation is in H. Aulicum, of which the 
inferior petal compresses the filaments, (in which respect as 
well as in the non-radiation of the central colour, it differs 
from platypetalum and glaucophyllum, which can scarcely 
be considered of the same species,) but there is no dilatation 
or involution of the upper margiti of the sepals) as ‘in 
Sprexeria: The posture of the flower of S. cybister is very 
singular.’ ‘When the buds first break through the spathe, 
the germen is not distinguishable from the peduncle;and 
at that period, the most experienced eye examining it»with’ 
a magnifier; would think it had a sessile germen, and mis~ 
take the peduncle and germen for a tube. On the follow- 
ing day the germen marks itself and becomes horizontal ; 
on the next, the bud plunges down, and the point touches 
the scape, aud in that singular posture, the buds. look; like 
heads of a crane pecking its neck. After a day. or two,they 
rise from the scape, when the lower lip, with the filaments 
and style, falls perpendicularly. In its complete expansion 
the point of the lower petal touches the scape, the upper 
sepal has the end reflex, and the two upper petals become 
reflex, with the ends tortuously drooping ; the ends_of the 
style and filaments become more disengaged, aud, curve 
irregularly upwards. The leaves do not appear till after 
the flowers are passed, or if the point of a leaf appears, its 
progress is suspended. The plant likes rich alluvial loam, 
and should be left dry in the winter in the greenhouse. 
It is not ascertained whether it will bear an English winter 
in the open ground LF balan ited It forms a second 
section of Sprexexia, differing from formosissima, glauca, 
and cznnabarina lately flowered at Spofforth, in the elonga~ 
tion or abbreviation of the odd filaments in each lip. W.A- 
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