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intermedia oblonga unguiculata subrecurva i d appendie marginato libero suberecto brevi ad 
— inter lacinias laterales ; gymnostemio candido glabro arcuato ad hesin internam purpurascen 
The pseudobulbs are enclosed in , long-ovate, with from six to eight blunt angles 
three inches leng, and an inch and a half broad. They: are furnished at the point with from three to five ribbed leaves, which 
are one foot and a half long, and from three to three and a half inches "m longish, ae at "e beso, tapered into a a 
fine point.— The flower-stalks, of which there are generally several, seld 
naked, and as thick as a crowquill. The upper bract which protects and encloses the ovary is — lines long, or 
double the length of the ovary, ovate-lanceolate, short but finely pointed, with its edges turned tow; each other on the 
under side, but sp out flat near the point. The sepals are long, lanceolate, sessile, very LS ‘pointed, of a light 
b colour, one and a half inch long, and half an inch broad, and near the inner base ittle he petals 
are rose-colour, obovate, fifteen lines long and seven broad. The lip is naked, rose-coloured, three-lobed towards the 
inside, more darkly spotted, and from thirteen to fourteen lines long ; the two side lobes are blunt, incurved, half as short 
as the middle lobe. The appe pendage, which in other species stretches from the base of the labellum to the middle lobe, 
and there looks like a tongue growing to its lower part, and is traceable to its base, proceeds in the present plant only 
from below the base of the middle lobe, and has the appearance of a flat sessile Soke, one and a half line in length and 
breadth, and whose downward course is not visible. The column is a little curved, semicircular, five lines long, white 
and naked.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., June 12, 1852 
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561. ErrsENA LoNGIPETALA. Lindley. A half-hardy bulbous plant. Flowers white tinged with 
green. Native of Peru. Belongs to Amaryllids. (Fig. 275.) 
This pn was first noticed in the Botanical Register for 1838, p. 45 of the miscellaneous matter, with the following 
morandum 
* To the seen ca of bulbous plants this fine species will form a weleome addition. It is very nearly related to the 
Pancratiwm ringens of the Flora Peruviana, out of which Mr. Herbert has formed his genus Elisena, and, like it, is a 
native of Peru, It was obtained from Lima by Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, near Liverpool, and it blossomed 
in the e of that gentleman in May, 1838. The leaves are much like those of an Amancaes ; the flowers are of a 
delicate semi-transparent white, and are remarkable for their long weak sepals, which are rolled up, and in that state 
esie wider than the long white declinate ens." 
Its flowers have lately been sent us by an unknown correspondent, and have enabled us to give the Peg figure 
