76 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



5. Peperomia pallescens. Miquel, in London Journal 

 of Botany, vol. vi. p. 460. 



Presented to the Society by G. U. Skinner, Esq., in April, 

 1846, from Guatemala. 



A fleshy-stemmed plant, perfectly destitute of fragrance, with 

 soft round fleshy half herbaceous branches. Leaves cordate 

 ovate, very slightly toothed or quite entire, covered beneath and 

 on the foot-stalk with very fine hairs, and marked on each side 

 with minute brown points. Flowers in green drooping tails 

 about six inches long. 



This stove plant grows freely in a light sandy loam, and is 

 easily increased by cuttings. It flowers in July, is merely 

 curious, not at all ornamental, and only worthy a place in a 

 botanic garden. 



Sept. 5, 1847. 



6. Lycoris straminea.* 

 Received from Mr. Fortune in 1845 from China. 



This plant, although nearly allied to L. aurea, is distinguished 

 not only by its having pale straw-coloured flowers, with a pink 

 line along the middle of the segments, and a few scattered dots, 

 but also by the segments being shorter, and scarcely at all joined 

 at tlie base in a tube. 



It is a pretty bulbous plant, apparently as hardy as a Narciss, 

 growing freely in any good rich garden-soil. It is increased by 

 ofl^sets from the old bulbs. If it should prove quite hardy, it 

 will be desirable for the flower-garden. 



Aug. 30, 1847. 



7. OncIDIUM TENUE.f 



Received through Mr. Hartweg in February 1841, from 

 Guatemala. 



This is a small Oncid, remarkable for its exceedingly thin 

 pseudo-bulbs, which, although 2 or 3 inches long, are not 

 more than | of an inch thick in the middle, from which they 



* L. straminea ; ovario subsphserico, lubo brevissimo, perianthii laciniis 

 lineari-oblongis undulatis staminibus brevioribus. — J. L. 



f O. tcnue ; (§ Heterantbia pentapetala micropetala, labello pandurato) 

 pseudobulbis ovalibus tenuissimis bine obsolete cottalis, foliis membranaceis 

 ovato-lanceolatis patulis, paniculii angust& racemosa, ramulis 3-4-floris, 

 labelli lobo intermedio subrotundo bilobo auriculis paruni latiore, cristse 

 tuberculo 5-7-dentato glabro, cohmmte alis acute triangularibus. — J. L. 



