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90 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
of one of them, About five such grow in an umbel at the end of a stiff two-edged scape, about three feet high. Dean 
Herbert's figure, in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3873, does not at all do justice to the species, which is rea ig: very handsome, 
He recommends it to be grown out of doors in a bed of white sand, and guarded against spring frost 
562. BRACHYSEMA LANCEOLATUM. Meisner. An evergreen greenhouse shrub, «d rich crimson 
flowers. Belongs to the Leguminous Order. Native of Swan River. Introduced by Messrs. 
Lucombe & Pince. 
A handsome species, and its beauty is enhanced by the good-sized almost polished voces dark green above, 
beautifully silky beneath. It is a native of Swan River, and was raised from seeds sent home by Mr. Drummond, in 
the Exeter Nursery of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., where it flowered x the first time in February, 1852. It 
is one great charm of the Australian plants that diy so generally flower when there is little else to enliven the 
sewer dre S and this cannot fail, on that account, to be very acceptable to ساس‎ Dr. Meisner had evidently 
very imperfect specimens to describe from, for he was ignorant of the colour of the corolla, which in the living and in 
the dried. specimens of Mr. Drummond, is of the richest scarlet ; and he describes the flowers as solitar 
contrived to form three varieties. The leaves are certainly variable i in form, even on the same indiyidasl branch. 
A handsome though somewhat straggling shrub, with terete, silky branches, and usually opposite sen pias two ie 
half to three inches long, shortly petiolate, varying from ovate to lanceolate, rarely obtuse, usually acute 
Pin entire, penninerved, the upper surface dark green, and when dry beautifully and minutely miens pens 
at most two lines long, with a subulate, coloured stipule on each side, vise eem deciduous. Flowers four to 
six, on a sessile subeompound raceme in the axils of the leaves, and shor n the lea racteas ovate, acute, silky. 
Pedicels short. Calyx large, ovate, five-lobed ; lobes acuminate, erect. ORE all ^ dus dat is distinctly visible, 
rieh scarlet ; for the a ale and vexillum are mien; ien beyond the calyx, while the carina is twice the length of 
| the latter. The small Were is cordate, attenuated, yet obtuse, white at the margin, red in the dise, with a large yellow 
| spot in the centre. Stamens ten, free. ا‎ oblong, Jüky Style subulate-filiform. Stigma obtuse.— Bot. Mag., t. 4652, 
563. CORDYLINE rNDIVISA. Kunth. (alias Draceena indivisa Forster). A hardy (?) arborescent 
Yucca-like plant, native of New Zealand. Flowers in large whitish fragrant panicles. Belongs to 
Lilyworts. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 
rtion of this noble plant, consisting of a few leaves and a piece of the inflorescence, was exhibited by Messrs. 
| Veitch of Sei at p J uly meeting of the Horticultural Society, it having flowered in their nursery at Exeter for the 
| first time in Europe. It is stated to be an inhabitant of Dusky Bay in New Zealand, where it grows as much as eighteen 
| feet high on rocks near hae At Exeter it forms a noble specimen, twelve or fourteen feet high, with a single graceful 
stem, terminated by h ard sharp-pointed sword-shaped leaves nearly four feet long by two inches wide, and narr owe ed into 
white six-parted spreading limb, of narrow blunt concave segments, at the foot of each of which is placed a stamen with 
a broad petaloid filament. The ovary is obovate, three-celled, with many axile ovules in each cell ; the ا‎ is filiform, 
the stigma simple. The plant is, therefore, a Cordyline, and not a Dracena. Nothing can be more deliciously fra t 
than the flowers of this fine plant, which reminds the observer of the stately Yucca draconis, of which it has all the 
habit, but much lighter green leaves, It has ieee for many Jean] in the open ground in the Exeter Nursery, and seems 
to be quite hardy. According to Richard it , each marked with three excavated points near 
the end, and containing about seven dark mood roundish, ; half-moon-shaped seeds in each cell, 
564. MORMODES rLAVIDUM. Klotzsch. A terrestrial Orchid, with yellowish flowers. Native of 
Central America. Introduced by M. Von Warezewiez. Flowered vith Mr. Mathieu, d HE wes 
M. 
widum ; pseudobulbis elongatis, articulatis, va vinea : I 
culato pseudobulbo altiore; floribus flavidis, erectis, pedicellatis, bracteolis obl obtt 1 tructis ; 
perigonii foliolis lanceolato-linearib Pes acutis, flavidis, tribus rik arcte e binis دتمم‎ erectis ; labello 
albido-luteo, erecto-incurvo, obovato, apiculato, integerrimo, lateribus deflexis ; columna oblique torta, acumina 
The ps ulbs are Tong, cylindrical furnished with six or seven joints, covered with sheath-like ‘ia of leaves, 
and four معد‎ long by th inch thick, The leaves of the specimen which I possess are not developed ; 
the flower-stalk springs from the third joint of the pseudobulb, is as thick as a crow-quill and three inches 
top. The lip is obovate, مر سي‎ (as is the aeuminate column), bent inwards, with a short point, almost entire, 
the 
with both edges eurved back, from ten to eleven lines long, and below the per six lines broad.—Allgem. Ga rtenzeit., 
April 10, 1852. 
