316 A NEW GENUS OF FLACOURTIANEA. 
Columna teres. Anthera ovata, obtuse subacuminata, dor- 
salis, unilocularis. Pollinia duo, ovata, seu potius obovata ; 
caudicula elongata, glandula minuta. 
This is believed to be an inhabitant of Mexico, and is 
drawn from a living plant at Kew, which formed part of the 
collection of the late Duke of Bedford. Besides the two 
species of Dr. Lindley in his * Gen. et Spec. Orchid." there 
are several described by the same author in the Appendices 
to the Botanical Register; but the present does not appear 
to accord with any of them. 
It was quite by inadvertence that the specific name of 
multiflora was given to this plant by me and written upon 
the plate: for there is a Notylia multiflora of Dr. Lindley 
in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 930, and kept up in the Gen. et Spec. 
Orchid. As however that plant is avowedly the Pleurothallis 
sagittifera of Humboldt, and as our species bears more nu- 
merous flowers, the prior name of sagittifera had better, per- 
haps, be restored to Dr. Lindley's N. multiflora. 
Fig. 1, Flower; f. 2, front view of the column and lip (the 
latter forced down) ; f. 3, lateral view of the column and lip; 
f. 4, inner view of the anther-case.—magnified. 
On a new Genus of Fuacourtiansx, recently detected by 
Mr. Purdie in Jamaica; by W. J. H. ; 
Among several interesting plants, of which dried speci- 
mens were sent home from Jamaica by Mr. Purdie, collector 
forthe Royal Botanie Garden of Kew, is the one here re- 
presented, and of which I proceed to give a description ‘under : 
the name of Lunania, in compliment to Mr. John Lunan,* 
author of the Flora Jamaicensis. It appears evidently to 
belong to the family of Flacourtianee, yet to differ in 5° 
many points from any described genus, that I shall not at- 
* Lunanea of De Candolle, the ** Bichy” of the negroes, introduced by 
them to the West Indies from Guinea, is Sterculia. ES 
