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high, and bears a great number of large tough apricot-coloured 

 scales and bracts. The flowers, however, are a dull dirty 

 brown, not at all pretty. This is the first of the Erias with 

 large coloured bracts that we have seen ; several exist in Java 

 according to Dr. Blume. The species is near the Dendrolirium 

 ornatum of that author, but the bracts are not red, nor revo- 

 lute at the margin, the leaves are not strongly ribbed, nor 

 are the lamella? of the lip at all the same. 



71. EPIDENDRUM (Lanium) microjihyllum. Lindley in Hooker's Journal 

 of Botany, 3. 85. 



A curious little plant, with small woolly dull purple 

 flowers. It and another constitute a well marked section of 

 this great genus, to which the name of Lanium has been ap- 

 plied, in allusion to the singular circumstance of the flowers 

 being woolly. Messrs. Loddiges flowered it the other day from 

 Schomburgk's Demerara collections, and I have since received 

 it from Mr. Bateman, who obtained it from Berbice. 



72. CYRTOCHILUM filipes ; scapo longissimo simplici filiformi apice ipso 

 paucifloro, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis conformibus acutis planis, labello 

 cuneato bifido apice dilatato basi dente porrecto subsimplici subtuber- 

 culato aucto, columnee alis minimis cuneatis truncatis. 



A Cyrtochilum, with the yellow flowers of an Oncidium, 

 imported from Guatemala by Mr. Bateman. It has a very 

 slender stem, above two feet long, perfectly simple, on the 

 extreme point of which are four or five flowers about the size 

 of those of C. maculatum. 



73. BEGONIA incana ; caulescens, erecta, tomentoso-incana, foliis coriaceis 

 peltatis oblongis acutis subangulatis subtus albidis, pedunculo longis- 

 simo, panicula parva contract!, floribus masculis tetrapetalis pubescenti- 

 bus, fcemineis 



A striking species of this genus, with the aspect of Pepe- 

 romia incana, imported from Mexico by John Rogers, Esq. 

 The flowers are white in a small contracted downy panicle. 

 The males only have hitherto been seen. 



74. BEGONIA iiapillosa ; caulescens, erecta, molliter pilosa, foliis semicor- 

 datis pilosis supra papulosis subtus dealbatis oblongis acuminatis denti- 

 culatis ; lobo baseos maximo rotundato, panicula ter dichotoma, capsulse 

 pilosse alis obtusis altera paulo majore. 



