62 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
among the foliage, have a very pretty effect. It blossoms in the Royal Gardens in February. An ascendant or rather 
straggling shrub, a foot or a foot and a half in height, rigid, much branched ; branches terete, younger ones puberulous. 
Leaves generally very patent and slightly tortuous, so as to have a.squarrose appearance, n lanceolate, sessile, 
subcoriaceous, with very indisti tinet, close-pressed pubescence, plane, or the sides slightly recurved, the margins thickened 
and running out at the apex into a rather gv at mucro. Flowers in axillary, sessile fascicles, red, handsome, 
Pedicels purple, thickened upwards, Sepals r, their apices spathulate, recurved, orange-yellow, bearing a yellow 
nearly sessile anther in the cavity. Style “ts end يه‎ red, bearing at the apex an erect, cylindrical, but rather 
acute stigma.— Bot. Hex t. 4643, 
535. HUNTLEYA CERINA. A beautiful stove Orchid, from Central America. Flowers pale 
yellow, with a purple column, in April. (Fig. 263.) 
H. cerina; sepalis subrotundis concavis, labello ovato convexo retuso eristá crassá semi-circulari truncata plicata, 
columnéa apice nuda. 
hird species is now added to the curious deg pess neither with brown nor violet flowers, but with firm 
whitish waxy blossoms, not unlike those of Mazillaria Harrisonie. It was found in in Veragua, by Mr. Warezewiez, on 
the Chiriqui Volcano, at 8000 feet above the level of the sea, d was sold by auction by Mr. derne some time in 1 
Mr. Rucker has been the 
