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longis), suleatis, yes nutantibus, ovario subgloboso crassé sex-costato, tl 
filamentis parum qualibus leviter incurvo-deflexis breviter exsertis, polline aureo, S staminibus — 
glaberrimo rai sn trifido divisuris linearibus stigmaticis.— Planchon 
This noble species was obtained some years since by M. de Jonghe of festus, through his collector Libon, i. 
found it in the mountainous province of the Mines. It is a herbaceous plant, with simple ereet stems, having no kind of 
tendency to twine, some terminated by a large umbel of flowers, such as are shewn in the accompanying cut, while 
others are merely stopped by a tuft of ribbed leaves, It requires exactly the same treatment as other Alstromerias.— 
Planchon, in Flore des Serres 
641. SOBRALIA CHLORANTHA. Hooker. A showy terrestrial Orchidaceous plant. Native of 
Brazil. Flowers yellow. Introduced by Lucombe, Pince, a and Co. x 
Rece essrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., ie June, 1852. It was sen em 
by Mr. Yun hee s aries ee wef code s: in gen d structure e those of Sobralia, but of a yellow sni 
and with foliage more ds that : some Cattleya, thiek and dh Poppig ve Endlicher have a an : سوس‎ ttis 
(Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant., oP? 5), which they distinguish m Sobralia by ver —€— veg A T" verd e - 
tamen proxime affine adum ' and which has yellow or white preda but the saga shou 8 
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