GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 115 
Gardens, which produced flowering plants in June, 1852. 16 is 
ith 
yellow flowers, and a “ globose eapsule, as large as à garden cherry. 
It quite accords with an unnamed “ Meconopsis, n. 8123, 8," of 
Wallich’s Catalogue, from “ Kamaon ?? Dr. Hooker has another and 
apparently distinct species in his مس‎ with much longer yellow 
ni The plant 
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and lobes ovat clog, sinuated. Stem-leaves sessile, oblong, 
pinnatifid. Flowers large, drooping, arranged in an elongated leafy 
raceme, compound below. Peduncles and pedicels rather short, curved 
ovary. Stigma capitate, of six or seven dark green erect lobes.— Bot. 
Mag., t. 4668. 
587. SCHLIMMIA JASMINODORA. Planchon § Linden. 
Àn orchidaceous epiphyte from Central America. Flowers 
white and very fragrant. Introduced by Mr. Linden. 
(Fig. 287.) 
fino Mr. Linden's interesting catalogue of 1852, we find the following 
geo fete JASMINODORA. Pine et imeem Genre nouveau des 
plus curieux, & sépales inférieurs t formant un sac 
ressemblant à ceux des Cypripe dium. L'espéce en question porte une 
hampe inclinée de huit à dix pouces, garnie de dix à quinze fleurs d'un 
blane pur, à odeur de jasmin fortement ate Elle croit épiphyte 
Seape, which is radical, is altogether a foot high, with about six distant 
loose oblong scales, and three secund flowers, each of which is about 
an inch long, pure white, with the lower sepals very large and grown 
into a deep bag, beyond whisk project a pair of linear reflexed petals. 
ae not a showy plant, its very fragrant flowers render it one 
he desirable in a hothouse. The genus may be characterised 
Scu HLIMMIA ; sepala carnosa, inszequalia; dorsale lineare rectum 
liberum, lateralia maxima in saccum altum omnind eonnata. Petala sepalo dorsali æqualia, reflexa, 
bellum repe ungue carnoso cum pede columnæ articulato tubereulato, limbo simplici 
membranaceo dupló breviore. Columna semiteres, apice utrinque auriculata, in pedem cum sepalis 
lateralibus connatum producta ; rostello setaceo de fle exo. Pollinia 2, cereacea, caudicula elongata 
cuneata glandulá minutá lunatá. 
The lip is a fleshy body, shorter than the column, and articulated with it, with three knobs 
near the foot of ice cium, another i in be سيد‎ e - € and a fourth which is concave at 
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