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an imbricated manner, are quite blue with bloom on the 

 underside. The flowers are pure white, except a spot of 

 yellow at the very base of each division. 



68. HABROTHAMNUS cyaneus. 



H. cyaneus; incano-tomentosus, foliis ovato-oblongis undulatis acuminatis 

 petiolatis, floribus aggregatis axillaribus pedunculatis, calyce ventricoso 

 basi obtuso 5-dentato irregular!, corolla cylindracea truncata 5-dentata 

 margine albo pubescente, staminibus corollse loDgitudine, filamentis 

 infra medium villosis. 



This promises to be a plant of some importance, notwith- 

 standing a coarse grey downy foliage ; for it produces in 

 great profusion clusters of long flowers of a deep porcelain 

 blue colour. The corolla has so abrupt a termination that it 

 looks as if it had been eaten off" by some insect. Mr. Hart- 

 weg found it forming a shrub four to six feet high, on the 

 mountains of Yangana, near Loxa. It has lately flowered in 

 the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



69. GALEANDRA cristata. 



G. cristata ; sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis reflexis, labello convoluto 

 margine crispo intus pubescente et basi bicarinato calcare acuminato 

 horizontali, antherse crista rhombea ungiiiculata. 



A native of Cayenne, whence it was received by Messrs. 

 Loddiges (Cat. 1308) in 1840. It has the habit of G. 

 Devoniana, but the flowers are much smaller and paler, and 

 the anther has a very singular crest, resembling a purple 

 lozenge mounted on a white shaft. 



70. BOLBOPHYLLUM recurvum. 



Lindl. Gen. ^ Sip. Orch. p. 53. no. 30. 



It is a very curious fact that this little plant, originally 

 brought from Sierra Leone, should prove to be also an inha- 

 bitant of the New World. That it is so has been ascertained 

 by Messrs. Loddiges, who received it from Guiana in 1839 ; 

 the specimens that have just flowered having proved to be 

 identical in all respects with the African plant. Angrcecum 

 or CEceoclades maculatum is another instance of the same 

 kind. 



