MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



*^* The Botanical memoranda published in the last 

 volume of this work under tiie above title, have enabled me 

 to bring- before the public no fewer than 183 plants, the 

 greater part of which are new, in addition to the 68 of w'hich 

 figures were published ; so that no fewer than 251 plants 

 have been the subject of illustration during a single year. 

 I have reason to believe that this arrangement has proved 

 advantageous to the purchasers of the Botanical Register, 

 since it has been the means of informing them what the real 

 character is of the new plants whose names are found in sale 

 catalogues, and of enabling them to judge how far they may 

 be deserving of being purchased. 



The experiment having thus far succeeded, it is now 

 proposed to commence what I hope will be found an im- 

 provement upon the plan, by adding to the notices of plants 

 a short account of such new hooks or new discoveries, &c. in 

 Horticulture and Botany, as are of sufficient importance or 

 interest to deserve to be recorded. In order to gain space 

 for this addition, a little alteration in the typographical 

 arrangements has been found necessary. 



1. PLEUROTHALLIS pectinata; folio oblongo acuto cochleato glauco caule 

 ancipiti breviore, spica simplicl disticha. in folium prona eoque breviore, 

 bracteis membranaceis cucullatis ovarii longitudine, sepalis pubescentibus 

 elongatis intermedio lineari lateralibus latioribus basi ventricosis approxi- 

 matis omuino liberis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, labello unguiculato oblongo 

 basi pectinato apice truncato denticulate. 



A curious species, resembling P. prolifera in habit. It 

 was obtained from Rio Janeiro by Messrs. Loddiges. The 

 flowers are sea green, with a few deep purple spots at the 

 base of the labellum. The leaf is so firm, and so much 

 hollowed out, that it is capable of holding water, as if it were 

 made of metal. 



A. January, 1839. a 



