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we question whether our plant may not eventually be con- 

 sidered merely a spotted variety of P. cerina." Said to have 

 been imported from Rio Janeiro — but this is doubtful. It 

 flowered with Mr. Barker. 



^ 34. SOLANUM Rossii; caule fruticoso prostrate tereti gracili racemoso 

 aculeis compressis armato, foliis binis vel ternis insequalibus pubescen- 

 tibus breviter petiolatis costis supra aculeatis basi inaequalibus imis ob- 

 longo-sinuatis superioribus cordatis subobtusis, floribus quadrifidis te- 

 trandris ternis longe pedicellatis, antheris sequalibus. Knowles ^ West- 

 cot t, Floral Cabinet, v. 2. p. 141. 



A Mexican greenhouse shrub, with pale blue flowers ; 

 " the upper part clothed with fulvous pubescence, prickly 

 throughout, remarkably compressed, of a reddish-brown co- 

 lour, and slightly recurved." 



^ 35. EPIDENDRUM crispatnm; pseudo-bulbis ovatis diphyllis, foliis 11- 

 neari-lanceolatis carnosis obtusis siibmucroiiatis, scapo niultifloro, petalis 

 et sepalis linearibus striatis, petalis sepalis minoribus, labello tripartite 

 laciniis lateralibus columnam involventibus intermedia elongata crispata 

 (duplo longiore), ovario varicose. Knowles ^ Westcott, Floral Cabinet, 

 V. 2. p. 79. 



Imported from Mexico by Mr. Barker. " The contrast 

 between the long crisped white labellura, and sepals and 

 petals, is very pleasing and striking." It is one of the many 

 species of the Encyclia division of the genus, all of which re- 

 quire a careful comparison with each other. It must be very 

 near E. pictum, £ot. Reg. misc. 1838. no. 42. 



^ 36. WEINMANNIA venosa; foliis coriaceis sessilibus decussatis oblongo- 

 ovatis irregulariter inciso-dentatis venosis, floribus verticillato-spicatis, 

 petalis glabris linearibus paUide roseis, bracteis petalisque pubescentibus, 

 capsulis hirsutis, floribus decandris. Knowles \ Westcott, Floral Cabi- 

 net, t. 65. 



A New Holland greenhouse shrub, from the Birmingham 

 Botanical Garden. " It possesses a singular and pleasing 

 appearance, having its dense spikes of flowers crowned with 

 purple leaves, its stem red, and its leaves strongly veined with 



red. It is a plant of slow growth and a rigid habit." 



The pentamerous flowers separate it from Weinmannia. Is 

 it really a New Holland plant ? 



^ 37. BRASSIA cochleata; sepalis petalisque subsequalibus linearibus acu- 

 minatis, labeUo elongato cochleato acuminate. Knoivles ^ Westcott, 

 Floral Cabinet, t. 53. 



A native of Demerara, where it was found by Henchman. 



