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sesqiiipedalibus vel bipedalihus, scapo ibliis 4-plo brevioie, racerao deiiso 

 15-20-floro, pedicellis cernuis llonbus subtriplo brevioribus, perigonio 

 livide csenileo obloiio;o-rotuii(lato sesquilonsjiore cpiaiu crasso, superne 

 nullo modo angulato, fauce distiiicte constricto, deiitibus deltoideis albidis 

 recurvatis tidjo 5-6-plo brevioribus. — Hab. Cultivated at Kew, the native 

 country unknown; altered to M. botri/uides.- — Ref. Bot. t. 173. 



Ob BE A, Hook. f. gen nov. {Rubiaceae, Timonieir). Flores hermnphro- 

 diti. Calycis tubus turbinatus ; bmbus cupularis, truucatus, obscure 

 4-dentatus. Corolla coriacea, sericea ; tubus elongatus, fauce paulo dila- 

 tata intus glaberrima ; lobi 4, breves, patentes, iinbricati, 2 extenores. 

 Staininu 4, fauci corollse iuserta, inclusa, filamentis brevissiniis ; antherae 

 lineares, dorso infra medium affixse, basi breviter 2-l()b8e. Discus incon- 

 spicuus, pubescens. Ovarium 2-loculare ; stylus tilitbrmis, stigmatibus- 

 que 2 linearibus inclusis pilosis ; ovula in loculis solitaria, ab apice pen- 

 (lula, funiculo iiicrassato. Drupa . . . — -Arbor? ramosa, rauiulis tere- 

 tibus, ultimis sericeo-tomentosis. Folia opposita, gracile petiolata, ovato- 

 V. lanceolato-oblonga, nervosa et creberrime reticulatim venulosa, nervis 

 subtus pilosis. Stipulae interpetiolares, squaniosae, caducee. Flores inter 

 minores, in cymas paucitioras ramosas axillares pedunculatas dispositi, 

 pedicellis infra calycem articulatis et minute bracteolatis. 

 V^ O. TiMONioiDES, llook.f. sp.imica. Hab. Sandwich Islands ; western 

 end of the Kokala range, Dr. Hillebrand, n. 186. — Ilohk. Ic. Plant, t. 

 1070. 



Odontoglossum blandum, Reichb. f. {OrcliidefE)., {Euodontoylos- 

 siim) (affine 0. nrpvio, Liudl.) ; sepalis petalisque cuneato-lanceis acuiui- 

 natis, iabelli ungue bilaraellato, lamellis oblougis autice obtusangulis, 

 lamina ab ungue cuneato velutino anipliato ovata acuminata erispula, cor- 

 nubus brevibus geuiinis ante lamellas antepositis falcibus geminis, tumore 

 parvo interjfcto, cirrhis columnse basi angulatse bitidis setaceis. — Gard. 

 Chron. 1870, p. 1342. 



O. limbatum, Rnclib.f.; paiiicula anipla multiflora, sepalis triangulo- 

 lanceis, petalis rliouibeis acutis hiuc lobulatis deutatisve, Iabelli ungue basi 

 coluranaj adnato, lamina a b;isi cordata oblongo-attenuata creuulata serru- 

 lata apice aristata, cariiiis unguis in discum exeuiitibus, media simpliciter 

 acuta, lateralibiis in laininas rhouibeas hiiic dentatas exeuntibus, colunina 

 incurva basi obtusangula, alis laceris. — Uard. Chron. 1870, p. 417. 



(7'o be cofitinned.) 



Ueb) Dublrtatbns. 



Natitfdl Hhlor)/ of the Azores, or Western Islands. By F. Du Ca'ne 

 GoBMAK, F.L.S. London. 1870. 



Of the 35S pages of which this volume consists, sixty-eight, at the out- 

 side, are the production of the gentleman whose name stands alone on the 

 title-page, lie is responsible for the account of the few vertebrates of the 

 It^les, and for the scanty lists of Ilymenoptera and Lepidoptera. The 

 catalogue of Qoleopteru is by Mr. G. 11. Crotch, and the llev. H. B. 

 Tristram furnishes the short account oC the terrestrial molluscs. Our 



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