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This plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. It proves 

 to have erect stems about a foot and a half high, at the end 

 of which grow about four lanceolate leaves, from the midst of 

 which springs a raceme of yellowish flowers spotted with red. 

 If they would but open, the species would be rather pretty, 

 but they seem unwilling or unable to expand. 



54. CCELOGYNE cristata. Gen. & Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 39. 



A most beautiful species, fragrant, free-flowering, and 

 having large blossoms of the purest white, except the lip, 

 which in its centre is decorated with bright yellow fringes and 

 plates. It has recently flowered with George Barker, Esq. 

 of Birmingham, and was exhibited at the last meeting of the 

 Horticultural Society in Regent Street, where it gained a 

 Knightian medal. 



55. OXALIS fruticosa. DeCand. prodr. 1. 690. 



In this country we know little of the shrubby species of 

 Woodsorrel found in South America, where there are many 

 of very singular appearance. In the collection of His Grace 

 the Duke of Northumberland one has lately flowered, which 

 proved to be the O. fruticosa of Raddi, mentioned in De 

 Candolle's Prodromus. It is exceedingly remarkable in hav- 

 ing the office of leaves performed by the leafstalks, which, for 

 this purpose, become thin, broad, and lance-shaped, while the 

 leaflets either drop off" or only occur upon the leafstalks here 

 and there. It has small, deep yellow, axillary flowers. It 

 had been sent to Syon from Rio Janeiro by Captain Herbert. 



56. ONCIDIUM longifolium; (Cebolletse) foliis teretibus longissimis diffusis, 

 scapo erecto dense paniculate-, sepalis petalisque apiculatis obtusis con- 

 cavis, labelli lobis laterahbus oblique ovatis interniedio obovato bifido 

 minoribus, tuberculo basi depresso antice tricorni glabro, columnse alis 

 brevibus rotundatis. 



Although this fine species has the foliage of O. Cebolleta, 

 it is really very different, forming dense panicles, three feet 

 long, of very large and showy yellow and brown flowers. Its 

 leaves are often three feet long, and hang down or spread 

 upon the ground instead of standing stiff and erect, as in the 

 allied species, several of which are as yet but little known. 



