114 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA, 
by no means petaloid. Cypella differs in its “stigmas being distinctly lobed, acute, stretched forward, horny, fringed 
at the upper side with acute horny crests.” The scientific characters of this tg are thus given in the Zpime- 
ad 1 seminum anni 1846, de plantis novis in hort, bot, Ac. AL Bat. 
LawsBERGIA. De Vriese. Perianthium superum, hexaphyllum, petalis Dipig tribus externis majoribus concavis, 
ternis angustis, apice involutis. Filamenta basi vix connata, filiformia, loculis murum latere  dehiscentibus, styli 
lobis dorso per totam longitudinem adglutinatis. Stylus trigonus, apice trilobus, 
apicibus) brevissimis, vix cristatis. Capsula triquetra-oblonga, operculo vix conspieuo. Semina globoso-angulata, 
scrobiculata. 
L. Caracasana. De Vriese. Foliis equitantibus, — 
spatha valvi, com —4 flora, pedunculo ore 
perigonio læte ee — laciniis exterioribus 
obovatis, medium late nigro- 
maeulatis, int ib bi 1 aanika oi عن‎ 
nigra tinctis, apice dilatato, rotundatoque tilissime mucronu- 
latis ; filamentis basi, badia primum via demum solutis, 
flexuosis ; antheris oblon ongis. 
584. Acnyropaprus SCHKUHRIOIDES. Link & Otto. 
A yellow-flowered inconspicuous annual. Native of 
Mexico. Belongs to the Composite Order. Introduced 
by the Royal boe d Berlin. (Fig. 286.) 
The name of this ing in some seedsmen's lists of 
annuals, it is as well vi it should be bine known than it is. 
rom Mexico it was sent to Berlin by Cervantes, the director of 
the Botanical Garden in that city. It is à small spreading annual 
Icones, p. 59, t. 30, from which our cut is borrowed. 
585. Brassta Kerana. Reichenbach fil. A yellow- 
flowered epiphyte, with large keeled bracts. Belongs to 
Orchids. Flowers produced at Leipsic in the collection 
of M. Keil. 
B. spicá pauciflora, bracteis ER مااع‎ acutis, arguté cari. 
natis ovaris E اس‎ perigonii phyllis lineari-lanceolatis acu- 
; labello a basi bre- 
vissime lateque cuneato oblongo, margine hine microscopicè den- 
ticulato, undulato, apice acuminato, phyllis lateralibus internis bre- 
viore, lamellis baseos erectis utrinque obtusangulis, præsertim 
basin imam versus papillis velutinis, anticè in auriculas extrorsas 
postico protenso, marginibus membranaceis foveæ stigmaticæ pro- 
ductis.— Reichenbach fil. i n litt. 
gentleman has a very good FEE of Orchids, consisting ‘of large vigorous specimens, well managed by his skilful gar- 
dener Tube, who has also made some good experiments on exposing Mexican Orchids to the open air in summer—Rchb 
We are indebted for our kaii of this plant to Mr. H. G. Reichenbach the younger, of Leipsic. It is evidently 
allied to B. glumacea, but its flowers are much larger, and the lip of a different form. 
586. Mxcoyorsis WarnrOHir. Hooker. A beautiful blue-flowered herbaceous half-hardy plant. 
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. Belongs to Poppyworts. Introduced at Kew 
A very handsome species of Meconopsis, detected in in Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr, Hooker, » sent seeds to the Royal 
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