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M. Galeotti, this rare plant has flowered in the collection of 

 Richard Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh. It agrees extremely 

 well with the character and description given by Mr. Bateman 

 in the place above quoted ; to which I may add that the epi- 

 chilium is strictly linear, the two edges being as nearly as 

 possible parallel with each other, and not a great deal broader 

 than the column ; a mark by which the species is immediately 

 recognized. 



148. EPIDENDRUM (Spathinm) bisetum ; racemo nutante, sepalis obovato- 

 oblongis obtusis, petalis setaceis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus sub- 

 cuneatis retusis intermedia, biloba basi tuberculis tribus munita, ovario 

 scabro. 



A native of Guatemala, imported by the Horticultural 

 Society, and flow r cred by Messrs. Loddiges. It is a plant 

 allied to Ep. nutans, with much smaller flowers, more com- 

 pactly arranged, and with a strong smell of cowslips. The 

 ovaries are rough with elevated points, the sepals are brownish 

 orange, the lip dull fawn colour. The petals are in the form 

 of two fine bristles. 



149. BERBERIS trifoliata; (Hartweg in litt.) sempcrvirens, glauca, erecta, 

 fruticosa ; foliis trifoliolatis, foiiolis ovatis sessibbus sinuato-spinosis 

 acuminatis : venis lacteis, baccis spbsericis. 



This most beautiful evergreen shrub has been raised from 

 seeds collected in Mexico by Mr. Hartweg, and has been dis- 

 tributed by the Horticultural Society. I fear it will not prove 

 hardy, but even if requiring a greenhouse it yields to no 

 species in cultivation. The flowers are unknown. The leaves 

 are on long slender stalks, and have three leaflets which are 

 perfectly sessile ; each of the latter is glaucous, of an ovate 

 form, with spiny sinuosities, and delicate pale veins like those 

 of the milk-thistle. It is a plant of great rarity, and will long 

 remain so from the difficulty of propagating such plants. Mr. 

 Hartweg found it on the road from Zacatecas to San Luis de 

 Potosi : an immense plain occupied chiefly by Opuntias, 

 stunted plants of Prosopis dulcis, and Yuccas j it covered 

 large tracts of country. 



150. LYSIMACHIA l:)LeRoides; (Wallicb mss.) caulibus ascendentibus, foliis 

 oppositis ovatis subserratis breviterpetiolatis, racemis terminalibus nudis 



