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A very handsome stemless hardy perennial plant, with large yellow flowers. Native of Patagonia. 
Introduced by Messrs. Veitch. 
Some of our readers have seen this beau- 
tiful species in the exhibitions of London. It 
is a stemless hairy herbaceous plant with 
leaves not unlike those of the وساف‎ in 
form, but thicker, convex, and a م‎ d deal 
led. From rise up numerous 
stout flower-stalks, each three or li inches 
ulata, or 
spotted, given this plant by Cavanilles, is thus 
explained by Dr. Planchon in the Flore des 
it 
seems to be resinous matter, which, in dri 
specimens, manifests itself on the lower sur- 
face of the leaves, the sepals, and the capsules 
in the form of minute brownish points. These 
nassia ; they are sprinkled over most violets, 
of species, become num 1 very evident 
in the plant before us, but only on the old and 
i outte states that the 
Viola lutea does very well out of doors if 
treated like an alpine plant, that is to say, 
kept in a cool shady place, in light soil con- 
freely in the greenhouse during winter. It 
is propagated by side runners.” 
491. DENDROBIUM BIGIBBUM. A tropical New Holland epi- 
phyte, with pretty purple flowers. Introduced by Mr. Loddiges. 
Blossoms in January. (Fig. 245.) 
D. bigibbum (Dendrocoryne) ; caulibus elongatis apice 3-5-phyllis, racemis 
— © elongatis dissitifloris, petalis subrotundis sepalis dupló latioribus, labelli 
trilobi lobis rotundatis medio cristato basi gibboso, sepalis lateralibus in ealear 
productis. 
This very remarkable plant was obtained from the north-west coast of New 
Holland by Mr. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in January last. The stems 
are long, narrow, fusiform, or tapering to the base, closely invested with dry 
light brown sheaths ; near the end they bear five or six long, narrow, firm, 
spreading acute lives; each with five ribs (not three as in the accompanying 
eut). The raceme is erect, and consists of three or four flowers, placed at the 
end of a graceful peduncle eight or nine inches long. The bracts 
and scale-like, The blossoms are rich purple, nearly of the same colour as 
Bletia verecunda. 
above the spur of the sepals, is moveable, and projects outwards at its base 
in the usual way, so ird = flower md . kind of double chin. The three lobes E | Y 
of the lip ded ze, the central one being the darkest \ 
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