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ticulo interjecto intern^ bicalloso, columnse truncatae denticulatse angulis 

 anticis dentiformibus. 



Messrs. Loddiges having imported this little Orchidaceous 

 plant from Java, it is to be presumed that it must be one of 

 those enumerated by Dr. Blume ; and as none of his defini- 

 tions suit it well, except that of D. abbreviatum, we must 

 conclude that this must be what he intended by that name. 

 Nevertheless, it is difficult to reconcile his statement that the 

 lip of that plant has a reflexed tooth on each side at the base, 

 unless we suppose that he intended to describe the heart- 

 shaped base of the lip. The plant has little beauty. The 

 flowers are small, green, with a white lip, having a yellow 

 stain in its middle. The column is a deep cinnamon brown, 

 truncated and notched, with the front angles a little lengthened 

 into teeth. The lateral lobes of the column, found in other 

 species, are deficient in this. The pollen is white, separates 

 into 4 soft masses, having as many thread-like tails by which 

 they adhere to the point of the stigma, which will even come 

 off with them, like the gland of Vandese. This structure 

 requires to be investigated with more care than we have yet 

 been able to give it. 



35. NARCISSUS montanus. 



In our last vol. at p. 3, 4, 5, of art. 33, it was stated that 

 the native place of this plant was unknown, and that it might 

 perhaps be made by crossing N. dubius with pollen of the 

 whitest musk daffodil, N. candidissimus of Redoute. Culti- 

 vated above 200 years ago by Parkinson, who received it as 

 a mountain plant from a collector whose honesty he praises, it 

 was understood to have been brought from the Pyrenees ; but, 

 as it did not appear to have been found since, and seems to be 

 sterile by its own pollen, I suspected it of fraudulent hybrid 

 origin. Thinking, however, that the yellow and red cup of 

 N. poeticus could not be suiSciently discharged by a cross with 

 the musk daffodil, I fancied that N. dubius must be the female 

 parent. It appears however that I had underrated the power, 

 always predominant, of the male type, and that I had already 

 made the plant, having obtained a single seedling from N. 

 poeticus V. stellaris, by the whitest Ajax moschatus. It has 

 now flowered, and does not differ more from N. montanus 

 (Tros poculiformis of Haworth) than might occur amongst 



