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marked with brownish stripes. The lip is jointed so loosely 

 with its support that it falls forward every time the flower is 

 waved by the wind ; a phenomenon common, if not universal, 

 among the Bolbophylla, but in none of them more remarkable 

 than in this case. Both sepals and petals are so arranged 

 that they converge very much like the human fingers when 

 they are brought together without being bent ; this circum- 

 stance has suggested the specific name. 



57. VANDA parviflora. 



V. parviflora ; racemo simplici, sepalis oblongis, petalis llnearibus spathu- 

 latis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus ascendentibus acutis intermedio 

 oblougo canaliculato spongioso bilamellato apice circular! denticulato, 

 calcare angusto obtuso. 



This little plant is a native of Bombay, whence Messrs. 

 Loddiges received it. The flowers are small, pale ochre- 

 coloured, with a lip sprinkled all over with extremely fine 

 purple points ; the middle lobe of the lip is rather spongy, 

 has two broad ridges, between which runs a channel, and at the 

 point it is almost exactly circular, with a a few small toothings. 

 The four pollen-masses adhere to a narrow strap connected 

 with a broad gland j but the rostellum is not in any degree 

 extended into a beak. The habit of the plant is, I am 

 informed, that of Vanda lamellata. 



58. SPATHOGLOTTIS plicata. 

 Blume Bijdrageriy p. 401. t. 76. 



This very pretty plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, 

 who received it from Penang. It has light purple flowers, 

 and has quite the appearance of Paxtonia. 



59. ANEMONE Govaniana. 



Wall Cat. No. 4688. 



This pretty little alpine plant, from great heights on the 

 mountains of Nepal, has flowered in the Garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, where it was raised from seeds pre- 

 sented by the East India Company. It has woolly palmated 

 rather leathery radical leaves, and umbels of white long- 



