118 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
591. ANIA LATIFOLIA. Lindley. (alias Calanthe viridi-fusca Hooker.) A stove terrestrial plant. 
Flowers greenish brown. Native of Assam and Sylhet. Belongs to the Order of Orchids 
This plant, and another of the same genus, was distributed by Dr. Wallich under the name of pen — 
(Wall. Cat., No. 3741), which was afterwards published in the Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, 
third species was afterwards figured in the Botunical Register, 1844, t. 8, from Ceylon, as Ania bicornis, They Msc 
a little group nearly allied to Bletia and Phaius, from which the spur on the one hand, and the 3-lobed lip accompanied 
by a 6 or 8-celled silio d istinguish them on the seni They are all terrestrial tuberous plants, with solitary somewhat 
ribbed leaves, and long spikes of dull-coloured flowers. By some oversight that now mentioned has been referred to 
Calanthe in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4669, where we vue the following account of it :— 
* A native of Amam, whence it was sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Simon. It flowered with us in April, 
1852 ; and i ble among known species of Calanthe for the erect or nearly closed sepals sud gene the peculiar 
form ot the e and the colour of the flowers. We presume it to be terrestrial. The habit hat of Calanthe 
Masuca more than any other species. The pseudobulb is broad-ovate, spreading out most one eie side, dex green, firm, 
at the base yide and lobed, the upper part more or less covered with the remains of the long sheathing scales of the 
receding year's leaf. solitary, arising from an infant inconspieuous pseudobulb, a foot or more long, lanceolate, 
asc mbranaceous, plicato-striate, much and gradually acuminated at the point, the base tapering into a very long petiole, 
which is sheathed by three or four long cylindrical scales. Scape (including the long lax spike) a foot and a half long 
terete, glabrous, erect, arising from the base of a pseudobulb bearing brown, striated, sheathing, membranous bibit 
especially at the base. Spike many-flowered, bracteated ; bracteas subulate, green, one under each ovary, and shorter 
than it. Ovary slender, elavate. Flowers greenish peoi; moderately large. Petals and sepals lanceolate, nearly 
uniform, and, as well as the labellum, erect, so as almost to close over the column of fructification, quite find it. 
Lip broad, oblong or ا 0اا‎ applied to the column, but scarcely connate with it, which is embraced an 
almost included in its involute sides; three-lobed, lateral lobes ovate, erect, middle or terminal one a little reflexed, 
— Lega the eolonr of the lip is yellowish green, spotted or dotted in lines with purple within ; 
8 the whole length of the disc, are three lamellz, a little fimbriated at their termination. Spur short, 
mpressed, | ineurved, yellow, didymous at the apex. Column long for the genus, semiterete, furrowed in i 
sewer blotched with rose-colour. Anther-ease sunk in the apex of the column. Pollen-masses eight, as in the genus.’ 
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592. ONCIDIUM QUADRICORNE. Klotzsch. A species of unknown origin, with panicles of small 
brownish yellow flowers. Observed in blossom in the nursery of M. Allardt of Berlin. 
Oncidium (Euoncidium $$. Labellum panduratum, medio constrictum) quadricorne Kl. Pseudobulbis lentieularibus 
parvis monophyllis; foliis carnosis lineari-oblongis recurvis acutis subsessilibus, dorso carinatis, basi attenuatis con- 
duplieatis ; paniculis basilaribus erectis filiformibus ; perigonii foliolis patentissimis oblongo-obovatis sordide alee” 
Passes aq labello ups ids stricto albido apice bifido, lobis lateralibus obsoletis, crista basilari e 
alba quadridentata ; columnze nanze candidee alis erectis ovatis, 
The foregoing aaa | is given in 2 Allgemeine Gartenzeitung, Aug. 7, 1852. The fleshy leaves are said to be 
linear-oblong, recurved, acute, and placed singly on lenticular pseudobulbs. The flowers are in slender oe dirty 
yellow, with a long whitish lip, and a white four-toothed crest. It seems to be very near O. Harrisonianum. 
593. ALLARDTIA CYANEA. Dietrich. A blue-flowered stove herbaceous plant, native of 
Guatemala. Belongs to the Bromeliaceous Order. Introduced by M. Allardt of Berlin. 
Dr. Dietrich has named this, which he conceives to be a new genus of plants, after M. Allardt of — who is said 
to have the finest trade collection of Orchids in Prussia. It is described as being a simple-stemmed Bromeliaceous plant 
with a branching panicle of green and blue flowers, growing from the centre of a ع‎ of strap-shaped entire leaves. The 
whole plant when in flower is said to be two and a half feet high. Each flower lasts for a day. The following are the 
characters assigned by Dr. Dietrich to the new genus and species, 
Perigonium sexpartitum, laciniæ exteriores calycinze, cum disco hypogyno turbinato connatze, interiores ~~ 
tubulum convolute, liberze, basi nudæ, apice patentes. Stamina sex, disco inserta ; filamenta filiformia, libera ; 
incumbentes, basi sagittato-emarginate. Germen disco turbinato dae liberare; pyramidatum, triloculare ; ; stylos 
filiformis ; stigma trifidum, lobis filiformibus spiraliter contortis. Fru 
Allardtia cyanea. Herba americana, C! simplex. Folia Bride aedis integerrima, nuda, basi dilatata. 
Flores paniculati ; panicula ramosissima, ramis racemosis, spatha suffultis, ramulis spicatis, bractentis.—4 ligem. 
Gartenzeit., 31 July, 1852. 
594. GRINDELIA SPECIOSA. Hb. Bentham. A hardy undershrub, with large yellow flower- 
heads. Native of Patagonia. Belongs to Composites. Introduced by Henry Wooler, Esq. 
(Fig. 290.) 
. speciosa ; suffruticosa, viscosa, glabra, foliis oblongis basi angustatis ineequaliter inciso-dentatis, capitulis solitariis 
