Tas. 5076. 
OUVIRANDRA BERNIERIANA. 
Bernier’s Lattice-leaf. 
Nat. Ord. JuNCAGINE#.—HEXANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4894.) 
St gt ee ee 
Ovvrranpra Bernieriana ; foliis submersis anguste oblongo-ligulatis planis vel 
plerumque pertuso-fenestratis (parenchymate seriatiim porosis porls quad- 
ratis), scapo superne inflato, spicis 3-5 fasciculatis gracilibus, floribus laxis 
roseis. 
Ovviranpra Bernieriana. Decaisne in Delessert Icones, 0. 3. p. 62. é. 100. 
eS 5 
Gratifying as it was to us to publish a figure, from a living 
from the lakes of Ma- 
plant, of the rare Ouvirandra Fenestralis 
dagascar, it is no less so that we now publish a second species 
of the genus, collected during a subsequent visit to the same — 
island, and by the same gentleman that introduced the former, 
on, of the Nursery, 
the Rev. Henry Ellis. Messrs. Jackson and S 
Kingston, have favoured us with the flowering plant here figured. 
We refer it with little hesitation to the 0. Berniervana 0 
fessor Decaisne, notwithstanding he describes the leaves as mat 
up wholly of parenchyme (not fenestrate). We have shown, 1n 
our account of the former species, that the leaves, ape 
while young, are not pertuse, the sscees being a A be 
= : $01 t we have seen 
parenchyme : so in our present plant w ene 
had the openings entirely filled up; but our most pe 
the plant aawe the onrerclipiih to be rather copious, S° that the 
areoles formed by the longitudinal and transverse veins are Per 
forated as it were with small square oF four-angled opens e 
largest next the costa, those next the margin al! 
But this structure, so different from what is seen ID the perfect 
foliage of O. fenestralis, is not the only difference, the ee ae 
longer and much narrower in proportion, almost ligu x , i 
reticulation smaller, the scape 1s inflated upwards ; the spikes 
four or five in number, fascicled, slender, and the agi ri a 
and distant on the rachis, and pale rose-colour. Bot ; 
OCTOBER Ist, 1858. 
