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a little blistered in conseriuence of their lateral veins being much sunken, The flowers, which are small, and deep rose- 
colour, grow singly in the axils of the leaves. The calyx is half an inch long ; the petals much shorter and paler than 
the lobes of the calyx, flat, blunt ; and the stamens much shorter than the petals ; the style longer than all, ^ with a 
large star-shaped stigma divided into four fleshy finger-like rays. It is nearly allied to R thymifoUa and cyUndnca. 
It appears to be a greenhouse plant As yet it has been grown in sandy peat, but there is reason to believe that it 
will succeed under the same treatment as those numerous hybrids which are to be seen durmg the summer in every 
greenhouse. Like F. fulgens it has a large fleshy root, so that in autumn it may be stowed away in any corner, where 
it may be kept comparatively dry and free from frost till spring. Its flowers are, however, too small to render it inter- 
esting to any except botanists.— /owrna? of Hort. Soc^ vol. i. 
458. Galbandha devoniana. Lindley. A handsome terrestrial Orchid^ from tropical America. 
Flowers cream-coloured and brown. 
This was first detected by Schomburgk on the Rio Negro, a river M-hich discharges itself into the Amazon ; and Mr. 
Spruce has been so fortunate as to meet with it in the same locality^ and we received a VVardian case from him in July 
of the present year 1851, containing the flowering specimen in excellent condition, which we here represent. Schom- 
burgk saw it oTowin^^ five to six feet high, and in clusters or patches from ten to twelve feet in circumference. Stems 
uniform to the base (no pseudo-bulbs), clustered, three to five or six feet high, scaly below, leafy above : leaves much 
sheathing at the base, linear-ensiform, acuminated, striated, glabrous, membranaceous, 
large flowers ; branches and peduncles bracteated. Sepals and petals spreading and slightly ascending, lanceolate, 
striated, darkish-purple, green at the margin and at the base externally. Lip very large, projecting, white, tipped and 
streaked with purple, broadly obovate, obscurely three-lobed, the sides meeting so as to form a lax tube around the 
column, intermediate or spreading, deflexed, retuse : near the base within are four lamellce. Column within the tube- 
like portion of the labellum, slightly winged at the margin. Anther with a large, downy, erect crest. This is a tropical 
terrestrial Orchid, and therefore requires to be kept in a warm stove or Orchideous liouse^ It may be potted in tui^fy 
peat-soil made rather firm in the pot, and- well drained. In winter it must be so placed as not to suffer from excess 
of moisture, either in the atmosphere or in the soil. — Bot, Mag.y t. 4G10. 
459. Heiiman;n'IA I^^ELATA. Link 8f Otto. k. greenhouse slirnb^ with large inflated calyxes 
and short purple corollas. Said to be a native of Mexico. Belongs to 
Byttneriads. Introduced hy the Berlin Garden. (Pig. 230.) 
The stem of this is upright, from one to two feet high, and like the leaves, calyx, and 
seed-vessels, covered with thick stellate hairs. The leaves are one inch long, and from 
eight to ten lines broad, shortly pointed, finely notched, with five principal nerves, them- 
selves branching into smaller nerves, somewhat wrinliled, very hairy, but still greenish. 
The petiole is from two to three lines long. The flowers proceed from the axils of 
the upper leaves, are bent downwards, and have a peduncle four lines long. The calyx 
is inflated, membranous, thinly covered with hairs, and has five short ovate teeth. Tlie 
petals, five in number, are little longer than the calyx, and ai-e of a dark purple red 
colour. The five stamens are composed of expanded filaments, growing a little together 
at their base, and of long anthers, extending to a point. The seed-vessels are five- 
cornered, have five furrows, and five cells, each containing many seeds. Styles five, 
united. We received the seeds of this plant from Temascaltepec, in Mexico, where 
they were collected by M. Deppe, It is the only Hermannia hitherto found out of 
South Africa, and there is no doubt that the plant is a Hermannia. It flowers with us 
in August and September, but has not yet produced any seeds. It likee, in summer, an 
open situation, not too much exposed to the 
from 50" to 54*" Fahr. In winter the plant is tender, and requires a good place near 
It may be easily 
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sun, and in winter a temperatiire of 
the light. The soil should be half loam and lialf loam and river-sand, 
propagated by cuttings. — Linh <£-• Otto, 
We reproduce the account of this singular plant, m the hope that some one may 
find it among his collections. We have seen nothing like it from Mexico ; but we can 
hardly distinguish it from a species of Hermannia found by Forbes at Algoa Bay, 
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460. CoEEOPSis FiLiFOLU. IIookeT. 
A handsome hardy annual^ 
with bright yellow flowers. IS^ative of Texas. Belongs to Composites. 
(Fig. 231.) 
Although introduced to this country by the late Mr. Druramond, almost twenty 
years ago, this plant is still scarcely known in cultivation. It has, however, been lately 
