164 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
647. Ecurwopsts CRISTATA. Salm-Dyck. (alias Echinocactus obrepandus Sale DES A 
very fine succulent plant, with large straw-coloured flowers. Native of Bolivia. 
This, as well as the purple-flowered variety of it, were imported by Mr. Bridges from Bolivia (not Chili, as state d by 
r. Smith in Bot. Mag., under t. 4521). The latter is already figured in the plate just cited, and we scarcely know 
the present kind produces the largest blossoms ; 
t. pons 
648. Hupycnrom FLAVESCENs.  Loddiges. (aliàs H. Roxburghii Siebold.) A handsome and, 
fragrant stove plant, native of India. Flowers pale yellow, in August. Belongs to Gingerworts. 
(Fig. 311.) 
stout plant, about four feet high, with a great fleshy rhizome. Leaves about fifteen inches long by five inches 
broad, covered on the under side with long silky hairs. Flower-spike erect, a foot long, covered with brown hairs. 
Outer bracts rather distant, two inches long, with a short leafy revolute point, and closely covered with rusty hairs at = 
edges ; rolled round a very short spike of five flowers, surrounded by membranous, nearly-smooth braetlets, Ovary a 
long tubular calyx shaggy with brown hairs. Tube of the corolla smooth, slender, Hir inches long ; its three outer den 
linear and revolute ; ; of the pale n three inner, the lateral are unguiculate, sper anceolate, acuminate, slightly 
Wwo-parted with half-oval divisions, about ha If the length of the bright orange- 
It require i ^ potted in a rieh loamy soil 
mo Pande it should be removed to a cooler 
r. Wallich, if that plant had not been described as baee five linear petals, whereas here three only are linear and two 
broad spathulate-lanceolate.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii 
