from Chile. It will be a good addition to our small stock of 

 rill-plants from the tropics. 



- 145. MAXILLARIA Skinnen. Supra no. 101. 



This species, already noticed at the place above referred 

 to in the present volume, has flowered with Sir Charles 

 Lemon at Penrhyn. It has very much the appearance of a 

 large form of 3f. aromatica, but the structure of the flowers 

 is different. They are a deep dull yellow. The lip is a dull 

 olive-brown except the middle lobe, and the column is a little 

 variegated with crimson. I find nothing to correct in the 

 specific character already given from the dried specimen. 



£/ 146, PLEUROTHALLIS packyglossa ; folio ovato-lanceolato apice tridentato 

 caule suo longiore scapo breviore, scapo fiUformi erecto distanter 4-florOy 

 sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acviminatis membranaceis inferiore bicariuato 

 bideiitato, petalis caraosis obovatis convexis trinerviis apice rotundatis 

 dorso sub apice verrucosis, labello petalis duplo longiore unguiculato 

 crassissimo obtuso linguiformi basi auricuiis duabus membranaceis aucto 

 medio viUoso dorso verrucoso. 



This is the largest flowered species I have yet seen in the 

 genus. It has purple semitransparent sepals six lines long, and 

 about four flowers on a slender scape, divided from each other 

 by intervals of nearly an inch. It stands next P.fusca and 

 ephemera. Mr. Barker imported it from Mexico. 



147. STANHOPEA Wardii. Sertum OrcMdaceim, t. 14, 



Of this fine species several varieties are now in the gar- 

 dens, among which an exceedingly handsome one is that 

 named S. Barkeri, without the eye-like spots, and with the 

 anterior part of the lip of a delicate ivory white. Of this the 

 fragrance is very agreeable, which is more than can be said 

 of S. Wardii itself and some of the other varieties, of which 

 I now fear even *S^. graveolens, no. 125, is one, so many forms 

 have I examined within the last few weeks. 



148. BEACHYCOME iberidifolia. Bentham in Plant. Huffel. enum. p. 59. 

 A beautiful little hardy annual of the Composite order, 



with finely cut leaves like those of a Nigella, and flowers 

 of tlie deepest blue. It has been raised from Swan River 

 seeds by Mrs. YvVay of Cheltenham, and is a most welcome 

 addition to our gardens. The stem grows a foot high or 

 less, according to the soil. There is a white variety at the 

 Swan River. 



