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The Dictionary of Gardening. 



TStjm.'phsdB,— continued. 



N. tuberosa flavescens (yellowish). Jl. creamy-white, 4in. to 

 6in. in diameter ; stamens bright yellow. L as in iV. alba. 

 Bhizome long and stout, producing numerous tubers. 1887. 

 Syn. N, Marliacea chromutella. 



Octomeria — continued, 



acuminate ; lip one-fourth as long as the sepals and petals, 

 obtuse, yellowish, with a large, lurid-purple blotch ; peduncles 

 bearing two or three flowers, I. elliptic, fleshy, whitish-green 

 above, beneath dark green, obscurely tessellated with dark 



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Fig. 44. Neptithytis picturata, showing Habit and detached Leaf (seep. 573). 



OCTOMERIA. To the species described on p. -IGT, 

 Vol. II., the /ollowin^ should now be added: 



O, snpraglauca (glaucous above), fl. fin. long ; sepals and petals 

 pale glassy-green, faintly tinted purplish outside, lanceolate, 



fufted * ^^^ minutely furrowed, h, about 2in. 1887. Plant 



*'?^??^*'®^°^^^^" ^"^ *^^ species described on 

 pp. 470-5, Vol. II., the following should now be added. 



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