172 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
the finest of all epiphytes. Flowers rich yellow daggled all over with crimson. Native of New 
Grenada. Belongs to the Order of Orchids. 
H. tigrina; seapo decurvo, sepalis alte connatis, petalis acutissimé trilobis, labelli epichilio sessili ovato obtuso apiculato 
hastato versus basin verrucoso angulis posticis acuminatis, mesochilio apice earnoso in tu ueniam uo m elevato 
cirrhis ascendentibus faleatis eolumná brevioribus, hypochilio earnosissimo basi excavato semibiloc 
Wild on the ground in New Grenada, in the province of Ocafia, growing in forests of Wei mannia, where it was 
found by Mr. Schlim, one r Mr. Linden’s collectors, in June and July, 1851, at an elevation of 4800 feet. It has been 
our good fortune to see many beautiful Orchids, and after becoming acquainted with Pha sis amabilis, Vanda 
number of our ^ Flower Garden” which will appear, a brief description is all we can give. The leaves are broad, 
plaited, "t, almost two feet long, and look like those of a vigorous Stanhopea. The stem appears to be about as thick 
as a swan's quill, digne red, Maur dotted with brown. The flowers are four inches in diameter, and of the firm 
texture of Stanhopeas. long, concave, miii vett Fiohly mM and عي‎ aE with deep rose, 
The petals are dos inch and | three-quarters long, very acute, wi , brilliant yellow 
variegated way as the i agi The lip consists of a ; broad fleshy oblong stalk 2# a flat spade- 
shaped blade ; tl Vines vepres ome over with crimson; the stalk is richly marked 
with cross bands of blood-red, and has on either side a process shaped like a seythe-blade which rises up in the direction 
of the anther. The column is dull yellow speckled with seg jdm such an account it is only necessary to say that 
Mr. Linden has this noble plant on sale, and that the character of Houlletia as a genus distinct from Stanhopea is placed 
in jeopardy. 
We avail ourselves of the present opportunity of mentioning that Mr. Linden also possesses another Houlletia, having 
much the habit of H. Brockelhurstii, and like it remarkable for its fragrance. It also grows in New Grenada, in the 
differs fron dh last :— 
651. H. idol: ved ; Seapo strieto, sepalis liberis. , petali os pali f, +. Gouboeld. Tete pi Lit 
- unde mire aso sabesgitis q i TUM m" 1 re 
fal colam brevioribus, hypochilio r ioe EER uc aud. 
652. BEGONIA xawTHINA. Hooker. A noble hothouse species of Begoniad, native of Bootan. 
Flowers deep yal 
green above, and with the fine red of the petioles, peduncles (shaggy, with scale-like hairs), and underside of the leaf. 
It flowered in July, 1852. Root a short, thick, horizontal, fleshy rhizoma, shaggy with scaly hairs at the setting on 
of the petioles, and bearing fibrous radicles below. Stem n none. Leaves ample, six inches to a span or more lon 
obliquely (inequilaterally) adibe shortly acuminated, more or less sinuated, the margin denticulated, subciliate, 
and reticulately veined, of a deep full gl ossy green and glabrous pes — red, with the nerves 
and resembling it, but glabrous above, enin a many-flowered mone at the extremity. Flowers deep full yellow, 
drooping, often springing three from one point, in which case two are male flowers, and one is female. Male flower 
much th of four spreading sepals, of which three are oblong-obovate, and the fourth rotundate, larger and more 
concave, tinged with red at the back. Stamens very numerous, forming a Grane: globose, yellow head. Female 
mag small, of six nearly orbicular, concave, erect petals, tinged with red at the back. Fruit greenish, tinged with 
ae و‎ tig two of the جنا‎ abe vis me ete the third is remarkably i diae horizontally, into a sort of broad 
653. tsi NUTANS. Midi A coarse purple-flowered greenhouse shrub. 
Native of Guatemala. Belongs to Mallowworts. Introduced by Mr. Van Houtte. (Fig. 313.) 
This forms a branching shrub, with the habit of an Abutilon or Hibiscus. The leaves are palmate, long-stalked, . 
