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teralibus erectis triangularibus acuminatis ineequilateris 

 intermedia rhombeo-laneeolata acuminata, ovario hirsute. 



Native country, Neio Grenada. 



Tlie first information I had concerning this very pretty plant 

 was from M. Linden, of the Luxembourg Nursery, who, in 

 May, 1849, sent me a specimen, with the intimation that he had 

 obtained it from New Grenada, and that its long graceful 

 drooping racemes bear in that country from fifty to eighty 

 flowers. In the Exhibition of the Society, a small specimen 

 excited universal admiration for the delicacy of its texture, 

 its curious form, and its graceful habit. I have also received 

 it from J. J. Blandy, Esq., of Reading. I understand that it 

 has the pseudo-bulb of a Gongora rather than the taper stem 

 of a Cycnoches. Its flowers are of a soft delicate flesh-colour, 

 spotted with deeper red ; the whole of the parts are so thin as 

 almost to deserve the name of membranous ; and in the middle 

 of tlie 3-lobed stalked lip is a broad tuft of long half-transparent 

 hairs. 



14. Efidejsdrum vandifoliutn. 



35. (Amphiglottium) vandifoliiim ; foliis longia angustis dis* 

 tichis .recurvis basi canaliculatis ; racemo brevi cernuo 

 subsessili, labelli tripartiti lobis lateralibus semicircularibus 

 intermedio lineari retuso lineis tribus parallelis lucidis 

 elevatis callisque 2 elongatis intra basim. 



Native country, Mexico, 



Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, from whom I received it in 

 April, 1849. It is nearly related to -C. fuscatum, but its 

 leaves are long, narrow, distichous, and recurved like those of 

 some Vanda. The flowers are sweet-scented, dull purple, some- 

 what freckled. 



XXXI. — Notes on some Varieties of Peas grown in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society in 1849. By Robert Thompson, 

 Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen Garden Depart- 

 ment. 



(Communicated Sept. 1, 1849.) 



The names of many new varieties of Peas having lately appeared 

 in seed-lists, it was considered desirable to grow as many of 

 these varieties in the Society's garden as could be collected in 

 the present season, in order to ascertain their respective merit.?. 



