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tibus, floralibus parvis, subovatis, utrinque attenuatis, serrulatis, e viridi- 

 violaceis, glanduloso-puberulis, deciduis ; racemis elongatis, simplicibus 

 calycibusque violaceis, glanduloso-puberulis; floribus sparsis; corollis 

 saturate-cinnabarinis, puberulis, calyce sextuplo longioribus ; antberis 

 glabris, basi glandulis candidis sessiLibus ornatis; acbeniis minutissime 

 echinulatis. Link, Klotzsch fy Otto, t. 13. 



This is a decidedly fine plant, with cordate, crenated, 

 rugose leaves, covered with hairs and on long stalks, and 

 producing terminal racemes of tubular, slender scarlet flowers 

 an inch long. Their colour is as nearly as possible that of 

 Gardoquia Hookeri. It has flowered in the Botanic garden, 

 Berlin, and is described as a perennial, lj foot high. Its 

 native country is Mexico, whence it seems to have been first 

 obtained by Mr. J. H. Bockmann, Nurseryman, Hamburgh. 

 No doubt a hardy greenhouse plant. 



140. BiECKEA Camphorosmce. Endliclier in Hugel's Enum. p. 51. 



A very pretty greenhouse shrub from Swan River, with 

 slender heath-like leaves, collected in clusters, and light pink 

 cup-shaped flowers arranged along the sides of the naked 

 drooping branches. It has been raised by Mrs. Wray, of 

 Cheltenham, to whom we are indebted for a specimen. It re- 

 ceived its name on account of its resemblance to the European 

 genus Camphorwort (Camphorosma). 



141. MAXILLARIA barbata; pseudo-bulbis inaequaliter quadrangularibus, 

 corrugatis, vaginatis : foliis ovatis, costatis, acutis : floribus racemosis ; 

 sepalis insequalibus, petalis majoribus, lateralibus explanatis, apice sub- 

 involutis; labello cucullato, trilobato, barbato, margine crispo, apice 

 gibboso, disco carnoso. Phytologist, p. 7. 



"Pseudobulbs quadrangular, wrinkled; at the apex of each 

 is a cup-like cavity, which surrounds the base of the leaves 

 when present ; sheaths twice as long as the pseudo-bulb. 

 Leaves solitary, ovate, ribbed, acute. Scape arising from the 

 base of the pseudo-bulb, slender, smooth, and about six 

 inches high. Flowers about eight, yellow, disposed in a 

 raceme. Bracts about two lines long, brown and scarious at 

 the edges, and closely embracing the peduncle. Peduncle 

 about one inch long. Sepals unequal, yellow, involute at the 

 apex, the lateral ones spread out, the upper one more or less 

 connivent. Petals obtuse, of the same colour as the sepals, 

 but much smaller. Labellum bearded, cucullate, three-lobed, 



