GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MEMORANDA, II9 
the under purple, especially towards the margin ; both sides spotted and streaked with black, the under side most 
spotted ; the base of the leaf is cut nearly to the petiole into two straight or sliglitly diverging rather acute lobes, the 
sinus long and narrow. Petiole terete, smooth. Scape terete, smooth, rising erect, almost a foot above tlie water and 
bearing a fragrant flower at the top, nearly the size of our common white water-IUy {Nym^-ihcEa alba). Calyx of four 
spreading, oblong, obtusely acuminated sepals of a pale green colour, yellowish at the base, marked with numerous 
short streaks of deep brown. Petals twelve to fourteen, nearly of the same shape as the sepals, uniform 
or nearly so, yellowish- white, tinged 
with purplish blue. Stamens numerous, 
deep yellow, inner ones short and with- 
out any appendage to the anther, outer 
ones much larger ; the filaments broad 
and subpetaloid ; the anther terminated 
with a callous white point. The stamens 
in the fully expanded flower approximate 
in phalanges or bundles, apparently cor- 
responding in the number of the bundles 
with tlie rays of the stigma. Ovary turbi- 
nate, bearing the petals. Stigma deep 
yellow, downy, about fifteen-rayed, under 
each ray a blunt glabrous tooth projects. 
■Bot. Mag., t. 4604. 
394. 
EpIDENDRUM PATENS. 
Swartz. A lioth ouse Epipliy te 
from tlie West Indies and Guate- 
mala, witli pale ferruginous or 
yellowish flowers. Introduced 
G. M. Skinner, Esq. (Fig. 198 : 
a, a reduced sketch ; J, a magnified 
flower,) 
This, although almost unknown in 
collections, is probably a common West 
Indian plant. It grows about a foot high, 
with a slender stem clothed with oblong 
coriaceous distichous leaves. The raceme, 
which is terminal, is about nine inches 
long and is perfectly pendulous, bearing 
13 or 14 flowers, of a pale rusty yellow 
colour, and about \\ inch across. The 
sepals are thicker in texture than the 
petals, and somewhat darker. The lip is 
thin, roundish, 4-lobed, with a slight 
central elevated line, and a pair of thin 
tubercles at its base ; the lateral lobes 
are rounded, somewhat hatchet-shaped, 
and very much larger than the two in 
front, which are divergent • The accom- 
panying drawing was made in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society. A good 
coloured figrnre of a small specimen is to 
be found in the Botanical Cdbhiety 1. 1537. 
PlTTOSPORUM 
Lindlei/. A green-flowered slirub, of little beauty, belonging 
to the Pittosporads, Introduced from Hong Kong. Flowers during the early spring months. 
This is an evergreen greenhouse shrub, with deep-greon rather Mistered convex leaves, which shine, as if varnished 
when young, and are somewhat glaucous underneath. The flowers appear m terminal sessile umbels, are smaller and 
more slender than m P. ToUra, of a pale-greenish white colour, and very sweet-scented. The form of its leaves and the 
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