106 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
into a five-lobed limb, the divisions of which are linear-obtuse, and not more than three-quarters of an inch long. It 
seems to be the same as No. 767 of the Vienna distribution of Pohl’s plants. 
581. ConvaNTHES SPECIOSA. Hooker. (alias Gongora speciosa Hooker. A stove epiphyte 
from Brazil. Flowers very large, pendulous, dull pale yellow. Introduced about 1825. (Fig. 284.) 
This, the first of the Coryanths that was discovered, was originally supposed to have erect flowers, and is so repre- 
sented in the Botanical Magazine ; but in fact they are pendulous, and necessarily so, as in all the others. From the 
branches of trees on Victoria Hill, above Bahia, hang down little vegetable buckets, into which a pair of stumps or fingers 
constantly distil a sweetish colourless fluid, which, drop by drop, gradually fills the bucket. The fingers are processes 
(unguis) which keeps it perfectly steady, so that the honey may not be spilt. The column itself turns back as if to keep 
its head out of the way of the drops, while the broad I lateral sey qui 
as if to unveil the singular phenomena which the blossoms present. The plant is very rare in collections ; it is easily 
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remarkably short. The smell of the flowers is to us rather unpleasant, some think it agreeable. Other Coryanths in 
cultivation are macrantha, Albertinie, maculata, and Fieldingii. Of the present there are two varieties, one with pale 
` yellow, the other with almost white flowers. 
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