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207. SALVIA prunelloides. Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kuntb, nova genera 

 et species plantarum, vol. 2. 289. Bentham, Labiatse, p. 256. 



This plant has been raised by Mr. Martin Mayes, of the 

 Durdham Down Nursery, near Bristol, from roots received 

 about three months since from Mexico. It was found in 

 New Spain, by Mogino and Sesse, and also by Karwinski ; 

 Humboldt and Bonpland met with it on rocks upon the sides 

 of the volcanic mountain Jorullo. Mr. Mayes informs me 

 that its roots are tuberous and about the size of a small 

 walnut ; he adds, that the plant does not grow more than 

 from six to eight inches high, and that he thinks it would be 

 suitable for bedding out in summer, when it would form a 

 good contrast with Verbena Melindres. The flowers are 

 blue. 



208. POLYSTACHYA cerea ; pseudobulbis ovatis, foliis oblongo-linearibus 

 undulatis racemo simplici obtuso brevioribus, floribus cernuis, labelli 

 trilobi pone basin callosi per axin pubescentis lobis lateralibus nanis in- 

 termedio obtuso undulato. 



A small species, imported from Oaxaca by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges (265). The flowers, when full blown, have the colour and 

 texture of old wax ; they are distinctly drooping and arranged 

 in a very dense obtuse raceme about an inch long. In habit, 

 size, and general appearance the species bears much resem- 

 blance to the Encyclia nana of Poppig, which, like the 

 E. polystachya of that author, is apparently a species of 

 Polystachya, notwithstanding the manner in which the pollen- 

 masses are represented, about which I think there must be 

 some error. In this plant there is a pair of pollen-masses, 

 excavated at the back, and attached to a short caudicula and 

 small gland. 



209. ERIA velutina (G. Loddiges in litt.) ; caule tereti velutino, foliis dis* 

 ticliis carnosis ovato-lanceolatis margine revolutis junioribus utrinque 

 velutinis adultis supra glabris, flore solitario oppositifolio inter squamas 

 herbaceas obtusas villosas sessili, sepalis petalisque linearibus apice 

 recurvis extus birsutis, labello cuneato elongato caualiculato apice rotun- 

 dato subtrilobo supra pubescente inappendiculato. 



A singular plant of no beauty, brought to Messrs. Loddiges 

 from Sincapore by Mr. Cuming. It has pale dirty yellow 

 flowers, growing singly among hairy bracts opposite the leaves. 

 It is probable that Wallich's Dendrohium vestitum, of which 

 I have seen only fragments of flowers, is a species of Eria 



