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be from the appearance of dried specimens. It is one of the 

 curious race of Fringe Myrtles. The flowers are exquisitely 

 beautiful when viewed with a magnifying glass, but they are 

 not bright enough in colour, nor in sufficient mass to produce 

 a strikino- efl*ect. It is a native of Swan River, and has been 

 raised in the Nursery of Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 



107. GOVENIA fasciata. 



G. fasciata ; spica elongata cylindracea, bracteis ovario seqnalibus, sepalis 

 angustis acutis, petalis obovato-lanceolatis duplo latioribus, labello ob- 

 longo apiculato intus Isevi, antherse mucrone inflexo. 



A discovery by Mr. Linden, who sent it from Mexico to 

 Mr. Rucker. It is one of the prettiest of this genus of Or- 

 chidaceas, having clear yellow flowers, whose sepals and petals 

 are beautifully marked by fine broken bands of crimson. The 

 long bracts, thin narrow spike of flowers, and oblong, not 

 ovate, lip, are the marks by which it is best recognized. 



108. FRIESIA peduncularis. 



DeCand. Prodr. 1. 520. 



A neat evergreen half-hardy shrub, with deep green 

 leathery ovatedanceolate serrated leaves, sometimes opposite, 

 sometimes alternate, and varying a good deal in the length of 

 their foot-stalks. The flowers are something like those of an 

 Andromeda speciosa, white, drooping from a slender stalk, 

 and composed of from four to six sepals and petals. The latter 

 are wedge-shaped, exactly 3-cleft, with two deep crimson 

 stripes in the middle. The plant, which we owe to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, will probably 

 become a pretty conservatory plant ; or perhaps it may be as 

 hardy as a Camellia ; but that has to be ascertained. It 

 belongs to the Elseocarpaceous order. 



109. BOLBOPHYLLUM calamarium. 



B. calamarium ; pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo piano coriaceo obtuso 

 basi canaliculate, scapo stricto longissimo apice florido, bracteis vnembra- 

 naceis emarcidis ovarii longitudine, sepalis anguste triangularibus mar- 

 gine pubescentibus, petalis cornuformibus subteretibus glabris, labello 

 sessili mobili lineari basi sulcato margine omni tomentoso supra medium 

 villis longissimis crinitum, columnse cornubus falcatis. 



