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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
Flowers the ska of A. Barken, in erect racemes, of a bright golden yellow colour. Very handsome. 
Natural order of Orchids. 
This noble looking plant lias exactly the habit of the other Acinetes, except that the raceme grows erect, to the 
height of a foot or so, instead of being pendulous. It is loaded closely with golden yellow blossoms, each more than 1 74 
inches wide, very like those of A. Barkeri, except in colour. The lip appears to be white, and the column crimson. At 
night the flowers have a sweet aromatic odour ; by day they are scentless. From the other Acinetes it is distinguished 
•specially by the presence of a long, blunt, papillose horn arising from the hypochil. Annates de Gand 
We do not 
perceive any ground for separating this plant from Acinete, the horn upon which Professor Morren relies, being equally 
present upon both Barker's and Humboldt's Acinete, although of a different form. Nor do we feel certain that the erect 
position of the flowering raceme is habitual with this plant, for, according to the drawing, while one raceme rises upright, 
another is bent downwards in the same manner as in the Acinetes. Annexed to the article which describes this plant 
M. Morren makes the following startling announcement: "I shall prove in another place that Anguloa, Lycaste, or 
Maj-dlaria, are simply impkmtm forms of the same organisation, that is to say, that one may be transformed into 
another, so that the same plant will produce one year the flower of Anguloa, and another that of Lycaste. This strange 
ict I have witnessed, and, connecting it with other analogous facts, well ascertained to exist in the Vegetable 
King m, I think of soon bringing forward a general theory of isophorism in plants, a doctrine exactly analogous to 
that of isomerism, now perfectly established in chemistry and mineralogy. I suspect that this Neippergia is also an 
iSopbottJBi form, that is to say, transformable into another genus " 
57. Cuphea purpurea. Le< irre. A very pretty hybrid perennial, obtained by M. Delache, of 
dma $ 
colour 
To the habit and foliage of C. miniata, and its two large upper petals, it adds the four small petals of C. viscotissima, 
but has little of its viscidity. The colour of the flowers is a fine bright rose, slightly shaded with violet, a charming tint, 
which cannot be given by art. It requires the same treatment as other Cupheas.— Van Houtte's Flore, t 412. Seems 
good bedd 
AVaere 
Huntleya Candida, Hot 
An 
with handsome purple and white flowers. Introduced by M. Morel of Paris, flowered with 
M. Pescatore in Feb., 1850. (Fig. 22 magnified). 
W. Candida ; foliis latoligulatis apice recurvis, floribus 2-3,sepalis petalisque ovalibus acutissimis, labello subquadrato 
apice angustiore retuso basi saccato angulato inflexo carnosissimo dente crasso tridentatoin medio et altero simplici 
acuminate utnnque phcisque \\ parvis in faciem superiorem. 
whom \TZS^l"ll % 7 r! ,r T ,S , a u° Wer ° f thiS Pknt ab ° Ut f0Ur times the natural size - * P^catore, from 
inlorl nrZl" £_' ' ^ *" * ^^ * fr0m * *<**> under the narae * Huntley. Meleagris. M. Morel 
ported it in 1848 from 
ing found it about 150 
that province. Accord- 
the director of M. 
Celle, the species is hand- 
rwlacea. The flower is 
the lip purple, towards 
the base white, streaked 
of small stature, the full- 
more than 9 inches long, 
together, in the same 
ley as. It seems to be a 
Wa rrea Wa iksia na . 
forms . mmmm 
Bahia, his collector hav- 
leagues in the interior of 
ing to M. Luddemami, 
Pescatore's garden at La 
somer than Huntleya 
pure white, the centre of 
the edge blue-violet, at 
with red. The plant is 
grown leaves not being 
The flowers grow three 
manner as in the Hunt- 
nice plant, in the way of 
