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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
bury, oval, 3-ribbed, stalked, oblong, heart-shaped, on the upper side bright green, beautifully marked with brown stains 
and broken streaks of white, on the under side rich purple. Flowering branches or scapes about 5 inches high, terminated 
by a bent short spike of rich rose-coloured blossoms, about as large as in Cyclamen coum, with five petals. — Revue Hortlcoie, 
vol. ii, p. 381, fig. 20. 
41. Eriocnema 
plant, also from Brazil, 
of the last, except that 
colour. Also with M. 
velvety. Leaves 
Flowers somewhat larger 
seorpioid, as in a Forget-me- 
greenish 
with quite a metallic lustre. 
lieate. They are grown in 
continually shaded and damp. 
cies seem to demand the 
leaved sylvan Orchids from 
saures, Ancectochiies, and the 
42. OXCIDIUH SERRA- 
striking, orchidaceous, half- 
ni. Flowers large, brown- 
low, produced with M. Pes- 
Rather more than twice the 
Till we received a flower 
Pescatore, it was only known 
old Spanish drawing, sent from 
and preserved in Sir Wm. 
plant has oblong, smooth, terete 
broad sword-shaped leaves at 
below the pseudo-bulbs. The 
partly twining, with five or six 
from four to six flowers near 
hive the very singular form 
jENEUM. Naudin. A stove- 
with much the appearance 
the leaves are deep bronze 
Morel. 
than in the last, and perfectly 
not. Scape shorter, and more 
brown, almost black, shining, 
These two plants are very de- 
peat, but require to be kept 
— Revue Iloffirole. The spe- 
same treatment as the gay- 
the tropics, such as the Phy- 
like. 
very 
TUlf. Lindley. A 
twining epiphyte from Pe- 
ish-olive, and brilliant yel- 
catore of Paris. (Fig. 15.) 
natural size. 
of this curious species from M. 
u> us from a rude copy of an 
Peru by the late Mr. Mathews, 
Hooker's Herbarium. The 
pseudo-bull «, each having two 
the point, and several others 
flower-stem was nine feet long, 
lateral branches, each carrying 
the extremity. These flow 
shown in the annexed f 
^- on the upper half of the deli eately fri n*ed and crisped petals 
«ie spec.es would no doubt be much finer : 
Oneids, 
clear and brilliant. If flowered in the 
as it is, we must regard it as one of the most remarkable of the short-lipped 
[ " ,r t:SEr ;=d ** s^^Esf* be,onging to tl,e Linm!,,k 
hairs. Flowere' yelloTin k^TT "?*?** ° Vate » much w™kled, coarsely crenate, whitish beneath, with numerous 
Probably a fine plant for la™ bedT^ T^*' J ' "* 1 "^ * *"** " vate s,i PP er > not lo »S er *"» the ^ "■** 
species ; its habit is coarse - & th n ?• Ma 9 azi ™ of Botany. We should doubt its value as an ornamental 
prostrate, not erect, plant and we ml\ " ^T °T erpowered b X a 8™** leafy calyx ; its habit is evidently that of a 
as to render ,t in that state a m.re JJa r\ •'" * Wlld State ** flowers become so 8,nalI > an<1 the folia 6 e s0 sl,;ibb - V ' 
also raised Lobb's No. 344, the finest CaJceok" °" ma ' V ' h ° WeVer ' im P rove i4 - w « trust that Messrs. Veitch have 
belonL^re'onW .JT i ^t £ ' * P ™' A hw * evergreen climbing shrub from Chili, 
close Z^r^l* LardlZab "- leaves in threes, pricklv at the edge. IW dark purple, in 
ternate, but sometimes' bi nd 4rite4rtT!^!II!^ u^*' e8 P ecia,, y in th * flowering branches, generally simple, 
. nets rather thick, evergreen, ovate, here and tin. re almost spinously twisted, 
