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fusco glaberrimo; ramis oppositis, cylintlricis articulatis; foliis pctiolatis, 

 oppositis, ovato-oblongis aciirainatis, undulatis, utrinquc glabcrrimis ; 

 nervis alternis ; stipiilis basiliaribus, acutis, exiguis, basi junctis ; flori- 

 bus terminalibus cymosis, albis, ante authcsiu rubellis, bracteis sub 

 calyce et cymse ramis carnosissimis. 



A little inconspicuous bush of the Cinchonaceous order, 

 and allied to Gardenia. It exists in the Botanic Garden at 

 Brussels, where its origin has been lost. It seems of no 

 other than Botanical interest. 



48. A E RIDES virens. 



A, virens ; foliis latis oblique retusis, racemis pendulis multifloris, sepalis pe- 

 talisque obovatis obtusis, labelli cornu acuminato ascendente lobis late- 

 ralibus apice denticulatis iutermedio lanceolato medio canaliculato versus 

 apicem denticulate. 



A very fine plant from Java, with sweet-scented flowers 

 as large as those of A. odoratum, white, stained and spotted 

 with deep lilac. Its leaves are remarkable for their bright 

 green colour. Messrs. Loddiges have recently flowered it. 

 Aerides odoratum, quinquevulnera, crispum, affine and virens, 

 would form such a cluster of beautiful flowers, as it would 

 be very difficult to match if all the vegetable kingdom were 

 ransacked. 



49. OXYLOBIUM obovatum. 



Bentham in Lindleys Sketch of Swan River, p. xii. 



This pretty greenhouse shrub has been lately flowered by 

 Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton. It has the habit of Pul- 

 tensea daphnoides, but is a stifi'er and broader leaved plant. 

 Its flowers are in axillary and terminal sessile clusters, and 

 of a bright orange yellow, stained on the keel with crimson. 



50. BOSSI^A paucifolia. 



Bentham mss. 



This, like the last, has been flowered by Messrs. Lowe 

 and Co., from the same country. As it was exhibited the 

 other day before the Horticultural Society, it was a pretty 

 leafy rather spiny bush, with gay yellow and crimson bios- 



