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sharp-ridged fleshy tubercles, which occupy the middle of a short unguis belong- 
ing to the middle lobe (Lindl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, p. 237). 
Plate LVIII. fig. 1. flower; fig. 2. labellum and column, side view; fig. 3. labellum, seen 
from above ; all magnified. 
Denprosium (Spathulata) antennatum, Lindl. sp. n., (Plate LIX.) foliis lanceolatis carnosis 
oblique emarginatis racemo oppositifolio brevioribus, sepalis acuminatis, petalis lipearibus duplo 
longioribus reflexis, labello trilobo, venis quinque elevatis rectis per axin, lobo medio ovato acuto 
plano tricostato.—New Guinea. ; 
The petals of this curious plant are two inches long, and scarcely half a line 
wide. The leaves are succulent, brittle, and veinless when fresh (Lindl. 1. c. 
p- 236). 
Plate LIX. fig. 1. labellum, magnified. 
Denprogium (Spathulata) veratrifolium, Lindl. sp. n., (Plate LX.) foliis oblongis (ovatisve) 
obtusis amplexicaulibus 9-11-nervibus, racemo terminali elongato multifloro, sepalis undulatis acutis, 
petalis spathulatis obtusis planis vix duplo longioribus, labello oblongo obtuso membranaceo, venis 
tribus elevatis per axin duabusque minoribus lateralibus, lobis lateralibus nanis obtusis, intermedio 
oblongo undulato.—New Guinea. 
A most beautiful plant, with racemes a foot and a half long, loaded with 
flowers, whose spatula-shaped petals are an inch and more in length (Lindl. |. c, 
p- 236). 
Plate LX. fig. 1. labellum, magnified. 
The plant which I described in the above quoted paper, under the name of 
Cardiophora Hindsii (Benth. in Lond. Journ. 2, p. 216), has been shown by Dr. 
Planchon to be the Soulamea amara, Lam., which is usually enumerated amongst 
Polygalacee, with which it has but little affinity. Dr. Planchon refers it to 
Simarubacee. . 
The Piper fragile, Benth. 1. c. p. 234, with other species formerly included by 
Miquel under Piper, has now, in his excellent monograph of Piperacea, been re- 
moved to his new genus Chavica, under the name of Chavica Benthamiana. 
The genus Serophyton, p. 52, is the same as Aphora, Nutt., which not having 
been taken up in Endlicher’s Genera, I had overlooked, as shown by Gray and 
Engelmann, Plante Lindheimeriane, p. 25. oe 
The undescribed Euphorbiaceous plant, from California, mentioned in this 
work, p. 54, is the same as the one since described by Nuttall under the name 
of Simmondsia Californica. 
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