132 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
perhaps in the moist and mountainous parts of India generally. Our gardens are indebted for seeds of this to 
Mr. Thwaites, the able superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, who sends it to us from Adam’s icm 
(No. 436 of Mr. Thwaites' dried collection), and Mr. Gardner's specimens (No. 159 ot his collection) are from Newr 
Ellia, at 6000 feet of Meier We had, many years ago, received Ceylon specimens, without any particular locality, 
from Mrs. General Walker. Our plants flowered at the Royal Gardens, in a moist but not very hot stove, in 
the early summer of the year after the seeds were sown ; and, small though the blossoms are, yet their deep tawn. 
orange-colour, stained with red, and the numerous long bright petioles, together with the ample foliage, render this a 
handsome plant. Our plants attain a height of from two to three feet ; in their native country they are probably much 
taller. The stem is erect, straight, as thick as, or thicker than, one’s finger, purplish. Leaves mostly at the top of the 
stem, below them are the scars of many fallen ones; they are crowded, oret or scattered, large, five to six inches 
Ped (some of our native specimens measure sew a foot), ovate, much and gradually acuminated, pilose on both sides, 
k green above, paler beneath, closely penninerved ; the margin everywhere serrated, the serratures mucronate ; at 
"s base the is fringed with long soft hide: tipped with a gland, and is gradually attenuated into the long, stout, 
bright, red leaf-stalk upon which are a few scattered glandular sets.  Peduncles axillary, aggregated (often densely 
crowded), much shorter than the petioles, single- 
i i base. 
The lower one, or labellum, is cucullate, the mouth 
nding in a sharp recurved acuminated point, like 
e 
eu) Nar 2 E] the mouth of a ewer; the spur is short, eas 
DA n 4 NI ا‎ / with a few long bristles, singularly incurved almos 
X) WA Rae "ad and swollen and didymous at the apex.— Bot. Me. » 
609. SEDUM PugPUREUM. ink. (alias S. pur- 
purascens Hort.) A hardy herbaceous plant, with 
purple leaves and flowers. Native of Russia. Belongs 
to the Order of Houseleeks. (Fig. 297.) 
By many writers this is regarded as a mere variety of Sedum 
Telephium, and their opinion is probably correct. It only 
being oblong and rounded at the base. The petals a flat, 
not channelled at the point, and the stamens are rather longer 
than the petals. It grows naturally in middle Russia, and all 
over Siberia, whet her in the Altai, the Ural, or the Baical, 
plant for rock-work in summer.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii. 
610. Restrerta NUDA. Klotzsch. A stove 
epiphyte, belonging to Orchids. Native of Vene- 
zuela. Flowers white. Introduced by M. Allardt 
of Berlin. 
Restrepia nuda ; caulibus secundariis ezespitosis, basi vaginatis teretibus ; foliis carnosis so olitariis acutis planis 
latis, dorso aeumineque setiformi purpureis ; labello purpureo elongato-obovato acuminato margine fimbriato ima 
urieulato ; gynostemio clavato. 
Stems two to three inches long, ezespitose. Leaf leathery, shining, three to four inches long. Flowers solitary, 
one ineh and a half long. Sepals white striped with red, an inch long, three to fourlines broad; petals ten lines 
es odes Gartenzeit., Aug. 28, 1852, The pollen-masses not being mentioned, it is uncertain whether this is a 
Restrepia or a Pleurothallis. 
