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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
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282. Smilacina amcena, W^encUancl A mere weed from Guatemala, with a sti 
feet higli, and small green flowers, Eaised at Herrenliausen. Belongs to Lilyworts. 
The mould of some Orchids from Guatemala produced this plant. Its root is thick, clear-green and knobby. The 
leaves are 6-9 inches long, by 1^-3 inches broad, S-Z-ribbed, dull green, and shining on the upper-side, E^^'''''^'^\''^^^^^^^ 
The flowers are small, white, in compound panicles, their stalks becoming reddish with age.- """™ 
under. The flowers are 
1 850, 1 37. 
283. Platantheua incisa. Li7ull. Gen. and Sp, Orc/i. 293; 
Habenaria incisa Sj)re7igeJ). A hardy lierbaceous Orchid from N. 
of purple flowers. (Pig. 145; A, a magnified flower.) 
One of the large race of terrestrial Orchids, furnished with tubercles 
for roots, of which N. America possesses many, representing in its 
forest grounds and prairies the Common Orchids of Europe. The present 
IS one of the rarer species, with purple flowers, having the lip deeply 
divided into three lobes, each of which is gashed and slit at the edge. 
It is nearly allied to the more common PI. fimbriata, the flowers of which 
are larger, and the petals themselves deeply fringed. The stem of this 
plant is from 1^ to 2 feet high, covered with leaves like those of the Male 
Orchis. (0. mmcula) but not spotted. The flowers themselves are of a 
deep lilac colotir ; and the bracts are so narrow and short as not to 
be observable among the flowers. The specimen from which the accom- 
panying figure is taken, was received in July 1847, from Mr. Joseph Ellis, 
gardener to Henry Wheal, Esq., of Norwood Hall, near Sheffield. 
■Allgem. Gartenzeit^ 
WilU 
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America, with 
284. DoMBEYA viBUU^^iiLonA. BojeY. A broad-leaved. 
riad: 
)wered shrub, from Madagascar. lie 
riowered at Kew. Of httle interest. 
Bytt: 
A native of the Comorin Islands, near Madagascar, according to Pro- 
fessor Bojer, who introduced the tree thence 
latter island we have received it at Kew. 
"With us, confined in a tub, it has attained a 
height of 12—14 feet, so that itg rather 
small white flowers are not very conspicuous 
objects. Its nearest affinity is with J9. j5a?- 
mata Wall., PI, Asiat Rariores ; but the 
latter has seven spreading lobes to the leaves, 
and larger flowers with broader petals. It 
flowers with us in February. — Bot, Mafj.y 
t. 4568. 
285. Saiiracenia purpuuea, Lm- 
nmis. A swamp herbaceous plant with 
dull purple flowers, from the United 
States. Belongs ' to Sarraceniads. 
(Fig. 14G.) 
Under the first plate of Vol. I. of the 
present work are various remarks touching 
to Mauritius, from which 
curious 
race to which this belongs. To what was then said we now add some remarks by Dr. Asa Gray in his beautiful work on 
the Genera of United States plants : — 
"The pitcher or open tube of the leaves evidently belongs to the petiole, which is also simply winged or margined 
along the inner side; while the blade is represented by the hood, or rounded appendage at the apex, which cannot be 
mlled a lid, as it never closes the oriiice, nor is it so much incurved as at all to cover it, except in two species. This 
proper lamina is rudimentary in Heliamphora, and very small in proportion to the ample orifice which extends some way 
down the inner side, and thence a double wing-Uke border extends to the base, appearing just as if the two margms of an 
infolded leaf were united by a seam, so as to leave the free edges outeide. In Sarracenia this whig, or margin, is simple 
