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58. HARTWEGIA purpurea; z;«r. angustifolia. 



" This plant was gathered in Guatemala by George Ure 

 Skinner, Esq. and added to Sir Charles Lemon's collection 

 at Carclew in August, 1841. Although very distinct from 

 the original form of this species in its leaves and flowers, yet 

 the general habit and appearance of the two plants are so 

 very similar, that the present one can only be regarded as a 

 well-defined variety of the other. Its leaves are from three to 

 four inches long, and from half an inch to an inch in breadth, 

 oblong lanceolate acute, very thick and fleshy, hollowed along 

 the middle, and tapering to both ends ; of a brownish green 

 colour, singularly marked with numerous deep brown irre- 

 gularly formed spots. The scape is erect, about a foot long, 

 round and wiry, with many joints, each of which is surrounded 

 by a pale brown-coloured bract, which closely embraces the 

 stem, and covers it half way between the joints. The flowej^s 

 are terminal, of the same bright pinkish colour as those of 

 the old variety ; from which, however, they diflfer in the form 

 and size of the sepals, which are not obliquely cordate, but 

 ovate oblong, and rather smaller than in the other. The 

 labellum is also very diff^erent, being much larger in every 

 respect, and having a notch at the point ; whereas in the 

 original species it is small, roundish, cordate, and forms a 

 kind of spur where it joins the column. In this variety there 

 is no appearance of a spur, but it is narrowed round the 

 column, and has a singular indentation just opposite its point. 

 The column is curved, and about the same length as the 

 sepals and petals. It is also of a deeper pink, and is rounded 

 on the upper side ; beneath it is two-edged, from being slightly 

 hollowed out along the middle. The anther case is somewhat 

 reniform, brownish pink, much darker than any other part 

 of the flower."— TF7«. B. Booth. 



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59. HYMENOCALLIS Skinneriana. 



K.Skinneriaiia ; "bulbo modico, foliis petiolatis fovtiter costatls lamina dilute 

 viridi lacunosa acuta pedali 5 unc. lata, scapo 4^ unc, spatha sesquiun- 

 ciali sex-flora, germine sessili, tubo erecto 2^unc.gracili limbo albo triun- 

 ciali, corona infra angusta unciali dentata, filameutis 1 J unc. liberis, 

 antheris semuncialibus stylo f unc. brevioribus. W, H. 



" These bulbs, from the exact resemblance of their foUage, 

 F~1843. * 



