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of opposite small stipules are present. Each fork generally bears one male and one female flower. Male flower of four 
spreading sepais, = ' (opposite) eger and orbicular, the two iine oblong-spathulate. Female flower of three sepals, 
two large The 
fruit (nearly mature) is bright red, triangular, 
obovate, with a narrow rounded wing at two of 
the third angle.— Bot. Mag., t. 4676. 
618. CYMBIDIUM GIBSONI. Pazton. 
A terrestrial Orchid, from the Khasiya 
hills. Flowers sweet, greenish, with 
brown spots. Introduced by his Grace 
the Duke of Devonshire. (Fig. 301.) 
C. eaule fusiformi artieulato nudo, foliis lan- 
ceolatis acutis, spicis lateralibus strictis pauci- 
oribus, vni deed dio vontrácto "e re- 
curvo obtu 
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TERN 1 1 4 1 (5 
last March. It seems naturally allied to C. pues 
lium, and lancifolium, and is readily recognised 
in its — الوسر‎ naked stem, and lateral 
inflorescence 
bids, The s species is of little importance as le an 
ornamental 
619. 0 ا‎ BRACTESCENS. 
Hooker. (aliàs Nautilocalyx hastatus 
Hort.) A hothouse herbaceous plant 
belonging to the Order of Gesnerads. 
Native of New Grenada or Venezuela Wide 
Flowers white. Introduced by zs ap 
We adopt the opinion of Mr. ham in 
idering the genus to which the Fam belongs 
not distinct from his Centrosolenia. From every 
known species, the present is abundantly distin- 
stout, herbaceous, erect, simple, two feet high, 
the upper part clothed, as is most of the younger 
portion of the plant, with deciduous silky down 
ves opposite, very large Ms a foot long), 
nearly equal, ovate, acumina ly se 
penninerved, beneath akd ted and the nerves 
prominent, below tapering very much ; o base of 
the two opposite leaves unite and s und the 
stem, or, in other words, the leaves are tia 
upon the petiole so as to form a a very broad 
wing to the extremely thickened rachis. In the axils of the leaves there appears on a short peduncle a very 
T tuque nearly orbicular, concave, sharply almost cuspidately acuminated, purple-green reticulated reperi 
es across, d first closed like the two valves of such a shell as a Pecten or Venus, then partially © 
