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I'emarkable for its large, soft, and compactly tomentoso 
leaves, and the dense capitate umbels of small rose- 
coloured flowers with narrow petals. It flowers in 
March, and the scent resembles that of Hawthorn. A 
tree, much branched at the top, spreading; young 
petioles, leaves, peduncles, and calyces everywhere 
clothed with dense stellated down, quite soft to the touch. 
Leaves on terete petioles, often a foot long, themselves 
nearly as long, cordate with a deep sinus at the base, 
three-lobed, the lobes very much acuminated and straight 
(not diverging), everywhere sharply serrated, five- to 
seven-nerved. Stipules moderately large, ovato-acumi- 
nate. Peduncles six to eight inches long, rather ptout, 
erect, two or three times forked at the apex; each branch 
bearing a capitate umbel of pale rose-coloured flowers. 
Calyx of five, oblong, much acuminated sepals. Petals 
five, lanceolate, acuminate, falcate, but somewhat unci- 
nate at the apex. Filaments of the stamens united into 
an urceolate tube. Anthers fifteen, oblong. Sterile 
filaments linear, subpetaloid, thrice as long as the fertile 
ones. Ovary globose, stellato-hirsute. Style with five 
linear stigmas" — Bot, Mag^, t. 4578. 
335. Bletia patula. Hooier, A liand^ 
some terrestrial tuberous Orcliid, with rich 
pur 
Native of Cuba and 
Lvti 
half high. 
Blossoms in May» (Fig. 169, a reduced 
sketch ; a^ a flower in front of the natural size ; 
by the lip spread open and a little magnified.) 
For specimens of this we are indebted to the Earl 
of Derby, with whom it blossomed at Knowsley in May 
last. It was imported from Hayti, whence we also re- 
ceived it from Mr. Charles Mackenzie ; it already pro- 
duces a flower-stem three feet high, with a promise of 
greater vigour.- Mr. Linden also found what seems to 
be the same species on the sandy hills of Yatera, in 
Cuba, in May 1844, with large bright purple flowers, 
lanceolate leaves, a foot and a half long ; very strong, 
roundish oval pseudo-bulbs, and a stem a foot and a 
In general habit this is not unlike the 
common J^L verecunda ; it is still more like £* SJup- 
herdii : its lip is however in no degree three-lobed ; 
although, from the manner in which it is folded on each 
side of the end, it looks as if it were so. This peculiarity 
is weU represented in the Botanical Magazine^ t. 3518. 
The true form of the Up is aa exact oblong, as in our 
cut, with a very short stalk at one end, and a deep notch 
at the other. It has a thin texture, is much plaited, 
and has along the middle from five to seven white parallel 
crests, which are interrupted here and there, and end 
abruptly below the end of the lip, 
336. EoGiERA VERSICOLOR, {alios Eon- 
deletia versicolor Ilooher) A stove plant 
with yellow and pink thyrses of flowers. Belongs 
to Cinchonads. Kative of Central America. 
*^ Sent by Mr. Seemann from Boqueta, Veragnas, 
Central America, to the Royal Gardens of Kew in 1838, 
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