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tomentose externally, and scarcely longer than the two- 

 valved spatha. The sepals are very thick and brittle, 

 smooth inside, and covered at the end and towards the 

 edges with little elevated purple warts ; the petals are almost 

 transparent and a very light dull yellow ; the labellum is 

 fleshy, and dull deep purple. 



72. PHYCELLA biflora. 



P. biflora ; foliis linearibus compressis obtusis glaucis crassis margine rotun- 

 datis scapi biflori subpedalis longitudine, spatha bivalvi erecta subherbacea 

 pedunculis longiore, perianthio campanulato basi conico, laciniis squalibus 

 apice recurvis ad basin usque liberis, appendicibus coronse lanceolatis acumi- 

 natis fissis trifidisque fere i longitudinis fllamentorum sequantibus. 



A plant of this beautiful bulb was exhibited at a meeting 

 of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street, on the 17th of 

 April, and was distinguished by a medal. It was received 

 from Mr. Toward, Gardener to Her Royal Highness the 

 Duchess of Gloucester, at Bagshot, and had been obtained 

 from Chile. None of the species of this charming genus 

 that I have yet seen are to be compared with it for beauty ; 

 the flowers are fully two inches long, with an expansion of 

 as much ; their tube is a clear bright greenish yellow, while 

 their upper end is of the most vivid scarlet, just tinged with 

 purple. The processes of the tube of the flower, by which 

 the genus is known, are nearly half an inch long, lanceolate, 

 and split into two or three sharp- pointed lobes. It is a 

 frame bulb, and well worth cultivation, bearing the air 

 of a sitting room while in flower without inconvenience. 

 The specimen now described was kept from the Tuesday 

 to the Friday, in the dry air of a room warmed by an 

 Arnott's stove, and it did not fade in the least, although 

 the plant had previously been sent from Bagshot to Regent 

 Street, and then from Regent Street to Turn ham Green. 



73. BLETIA Shepherdii. Bot. mag. t. 3319. 



This plant has lately flowered in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, and I find it is only a dark-flowered 

 variety of Bletia verecunda ; it does not appear to be distin- 

 guishable by any character of importance. 



