readily distinguish this from O. pergameneum, which has 

 also the lip broadest, not narrowest, at the base, and entirely 

 different leaves. Mr. Bateman has named it in compliment 

 to Captain Sutton, R.N. who has brought so many valuable 

 plants from America to England, In his note Mr. Bateman 

 writes of the plant thus : 



" The habit is more distinct than the flowers, though they 

 have an aspect which cannot be mistaken. Pseudo-bulbs 

 from an inch to an inch and a half high, ovate, compressed, 

 deeply furrowed, bearing two rather long narrow linear leaves ; 

 flower-stems few flowered, and usually both in native and cul- 

 tivated specimens shorter than the leaves, and drooping' ; 

 occasionally the spike is longer, and a little branched, but this 

 is very rare. The bujf lip gives it a characteristic look. 

 The species is very pretty." 



9. MiNA lobata. 

 DeLaLlave et Lexarza Novorum veget. descrip.fasc. 1. p. 3. 



This is a convolvulaceous plant of much beauty and more 

 singularity, for which we are indebted to George Frederick 

 Dickson, Esq. who presented its seeds to the Earl of Bur- 

 lington. Under the care of his Lordship's gardener, Mr. 

 Wilson, a single specimen was raised last year, and produced 

 its curious flowers in November. The habit of the plant is 

 quite that of a crimson lobed-leaved Ipomsea, but the flowers 

 grew in forked erect racemes, and have not at all the aspect of 

 a Convolvulus. At first they are deep crimson, but when 

 expanded are of a pale lemon colour. 



By all modern authors this genus Mina is regarded as 

 the same with Exogonium, an error, as I conceive, which can 

 only have arisen from the plant itself not having been seen. 

 It is in reality quite a distinct form of the Convolvulaceous 

 order, as I shall shew when the figure appears in a future 

 number. According to the authors above quoted it is culti- 

 vated by the Mexicans for the beauty of the flowers. It will 

 no doubt be a green-house plant ; but is at present in no col- 

 lection except that of the Horticultural Society, to which it 

 was most liberally presented by the Earl of Burlington. 



