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pointing directly downward, so as to allow insects to descend, but effectually to obstruct their retui'n. The inner surface 
of the hood is likewise lined with stiff and sharp retrorse bristles, which subserve a similar purpose, except in S,flava^ 
which is smooth ; but in that species this appendage is erect with its sides turned away from the mouth of the tube, which 
thus it bears no part in guarding." 
The species now represented inhabits the States from Virginia to Canada, and is readily known by the short inflated form 
of its pitchers. It strikes us that manufacturers might easily avail themselves of its grotesque figures for various economical 
purposes, especially the workers in gold and silver porcelain. In what way this may be done, our artist has endeavoured 
to suggest 5 but we doubt not that the good taste and practical skill of manufacturers would soon strike out a better path. 
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286. SoBRALiA SESsiLis. lAndUy. A stove terrestrial Orcliid from Demerara^ witli solitary 
pale pink flowers of little beauty. 
This was long ago well figured in the Botanical Register. Mr. Smith makes the following remarks upon the 
cultivation of the genus : 
« This is a species of a verj' pretty genus of ten-estrial Orchids, natives of tropical America, growing in hot, dry places, 
and producing their showy flowers on the apex of slender reed-like stems, which rise from fascicles of thick, fleshy, 
interlacing roots. It requires to be kept in the warm division of the Orchid-house, and grows freely in a mixture of 
light loam and sandy peat. On account of its roots not going deep, it should be grown in a wide shallow pot, which must 
be well drained, so as to allow water to be given freely in summer without risk of the soil becoming saturated. It is 
increased by division of the roots ; but, in doing this, great caution is necessary, for, on account of their compact 
interlacing, they are not easily separated without injury." — Bot. Mag., t, 4570. 
Ehynciiospeiimtjm 
sweet 
lAndley. A Greenliouse evergreen climber, with white 
Native of China* Belongs to Dogbanes. (Kg, 147.) 
When 
This is a^ slender climbing evergreen shrub, rooting along its branches, whenever it touches a damp surface, like ivy. 
The young shoots are slightly downy ; the leaves opposite, oval, 
deep green, quite smooth, sharp-pointed, with minute scaledike glands in the place of stipules. The flowers are white, 
deliciously sweet-scented, aud produced in small irregular 
corymbs on the ends of peduncles, considerably larger 
than the leaves. Their calyx consists of five narrow 
smooth convex sepals, rolled backwards, and much shorter 
than the tube of the corolla, with a very shallow toothed 
glandular ring surrounding the base of the latter. The 
corolla is about three quarters of an inch long, pure white, 
salver-shaped, contracted in the middle of the tube, with a 
partially spreading border, whose five divisions are wedge- 
shaped, truncate, and twisted obliquely. 
The anthers are five, arrow-headed, placed just within 
the orifice of the tube, and separated by five slightly 
elevated hairy lines. The ovary consists of two separate 
carpels, and is surrounded by five oblong green emargi- 
nate hypogynous scales, which sometimes are slightly 
united at the edge. 
The structure of this plant is not precisely that of tiie 
genus Rhynchospermum, as given by M. Alph. De Can- 
dolle, for the scales beneath its ovary^ are not exactly 
united into a cup. But they are partially so : and as 
there is no other difference as far aa can be ascertained 
from the plant in a state of flowering only, it may be 
referred to the genus. In habit it is more like an 
Aganosma, but its corolla has not the tapering lobes of 
that genus, nor do the nectary or stigma correspond with 
It, Journal of Hort. Soc. vol. i, p. 74. 
288. Thibaudia macrantha. IIooTcer. A 
shrub of great beauty, from the jungles of India. 
Flowers drooping, very large, pale pink with 
blood-red veins. Belongs to the Cranberries 
xxr . , . {Vacciniacere). Introduced by Messrs A^ritrh - 
