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Ehrenberg in Mexico in the year 1838. The name however 

 will have to be changed, as it is the same as Lobelia suhnuda 

 of Bentham's Plantse Hartwegianse, no. 336. 



212. OLINIA Capmsis. Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, ic. t. 3. 



A new Cape shrub, belonging to the Myrtaceous order, 

 with oval stalked bright green leaves, and dense terminal 

 clusters of greenish flowers succeeded by bright reddish ber- 

 ries. It belongs to a set of Myrtles whose stems are definite, 

 leaves destitute of transparent dots, a large connective to the 

 anthers, and a spiral embryo. It is a greenhouse shrub, 

 flowering from April to the end of June, and ripening its 

 fruit the second year : so that the bush has at the same time 

 flowers, green fruit, and ripe red fruit. 



213. OXALIS Ottonis. Link, Klotzscli, & Otto, ic. t. 4. 



A Chilian species, sent to Berlin from Mr. Cameron of 

 Birmingham. It has bright yellow flowers, and leaflets so 

 deeply divided that each stalk seems as if it bore six leaflets 

 instead of three. , 



214. MICROSTYLIS histionantha ; (Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, ic. t. 5.) pseu- 

 dobulbis elongato-ovatis dipliyllis, foliis membranaceis late ovatis acutis 

 undulatis nitidis basi attenuato-vaginantibus apice recurvatis, scapo 

 6-8-angulato, floribus eereo-olivaceis depresso-eorymbosis, sepalis reflexis 

 anticis connatis, petalis filiformibus circinatis, labello oblongo-orbiculari 

 integerrimo obtuso. 



A plant found in La Guayra by Moritz, and sent to the 

 Berlin Garden in 1836. It has small green flowers, at the 

 end of a scape a foot and half high, and arranged in a de- 

 pressed corymb. The leaves are large, thin, and green. It 

 is a stove plant, and is apparently the same as Malaxis 

 Parthoni, Morren in Bullet, acad. Bruxell. 5. 486. with a 

 figure, a native of Brazil, from which however Dr. Klotzsch 

 thinks it may be distinguished. 



215. ONCIDIUM carthaginense. Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, ic. t. 6. 



This is one of the many varieties that now abound in our 

 gardens, concerning whose limits as species it is difficult to 

 arrive at any positive conclusion. It is certainly not distinct 

 from O. sanguineuni, which however may itself be a variety 

 of O. carthaginense. 



