imi^orted from Tillicheny. 
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At the end of long slender stems, clothed with ehort black hairs, appear rich oran-e-coloured flowers in pairs 
c^^^i J ^1 ^1- , - * -rr^-^ *'^""^'*»rt^-t^""uit:u nowers m pairs. Their 
sepals and peta s are hn ear, concave, obtuse, curved like so many horns, the petals being broader at the ba.e than the 
sejmls, and the lateral sepals forming a very short obtuse chin. The lip is linear-lanceolate, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes 
being ex reinely short with three wavy elevated lines rumiing tln-ough the middle lobe from end to end. The plant is 
near Walhch s Dendrohium angulatum, with which it may be contra-sted by the followin^r character • 
n .,,77.»,.7..^ (Endendrobium) caule erecto nigi-o- ^ 
villoso, foliis linearibus 
acut^ et oblique bilobis, 
acuminatis 
A fine 
pedunculis bifloris, sepalis petalisque 
recurvis obtusis lateralibus in mentum breve cor- 
niitum connatis, labello lineari-lanceolato trilobo 
3-IamelIato lobis lateralibus nanis, 
349. Eremostaciiys laciniata. Bmge. 
sliowy liardj perennial from tlie 
Caucasus^ with large yellow flowers. Belongs 
to Labiates. (Fig. 176.) 
Radical leaves deeply puinatifid with oblong- 
lanceolate or linear lacerated segments. Flowering 
stem 4-6 feet high, bearing whorls of large yellow 
flowers, seated m shaggy white calyxes, and supported 
by sessile blunt broad many-lobed green bracts. It 
is a common inhabitant of the eastern side of Cauca- 
sus, and of the adjoining countries, where it is found 
on dry hills. Its great fleshy roots are evidently 
adapted to such situations only. In a wild state it 
is not half the size of tlie cultivated plant, nor are its 
leaves half the breadth : but at the same time the 
flowers seem to be larger and more conspicuous. 
The plant appears intended by nature to resist even 
a Persian summer. The accompanying figure was 
made in April last in the Garden of the Horticultm*al 
Society, where it had been raised from seeds received 
from the Imperial Botanic Garden at Petei-sburgh, 
It proves to be a hardy perennial, with large spindle- 
shaped roots, and a stem from four to six feet in 
height. It is rather diflScult to cultivate in the open 
border on account of the large fleshy roots suffering 
in winter from excess of moisture, but it succeeds 
tolerably well if grown in pots during the winter, and 
kept nearly dry in a cold pit or frame. It thrives in 
a light rich sandy loam, and flowers in May or June. 
It is only to be increased by seeds, and the plants are 
two or three years before they bloom. Care must 
be taken that, in potting or planting, one-thu'd of the 
are 
soon perish. 
350. PiTCAmNIA MONTALBEXSIS. Liu^ 
den. A handsome scarlet-flowered liot-liouse 
perennial, belonging to tlie Natural Order of 
Bromeliads. Native of New Grenada. Intro- 
duced by Mr. Linden. 
In the Allgemeine Gartenzdtuiig, May 3, 1851, this 
fine plant is said to be of Mexican origin, having been 
discovered by Mr. Linden's collectors Funk and 
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