by the Spaniards, Alerce ; but this is doubted by Dr. Hooker. The young branches are covered with small thick dark 
pete scales or leaves, so placed as to constitute a four-sided arrangement, and being much larger than is usual among 
the scale-leaved Conifers, produce a massive appearance, which is quite peculiar to the species. The cones are small 
insisting of two opposite pairs 
th of the inner. These scales appear t< 
base of the larger scales ; the smaller 
botanists call a valvate position; that is to say, they all touch at U wgo wllU um t 
this resides the distinctive character of the Libocedars. In the Arbor- vites (Thuj 
These scales, of two different sizes, are placed 
are 
a Libocedar are much more simple in their structure 
commencement of the spiral arrangement found in the 1 
In other words, the cones of 
81. Libocedrus chile-xsis. Endlicher. (alite Thuja chilensis, Don; alihs Thuja andina, 
piff.) From Chili. A noble evergreen, with the habit of an Arhnr Vit* T™™^ ui 
:ssrs. Low and Co. Natural 
A noble evergreen, with 
(Kg- 33.) 
Arbor Vitse. Import 
A fine evergreen tree. Mr. Bridges says that it is from 65 to 80 feet high J Sir W. Hooker, that it is a tree from 
great beauty, and well worthy of being introduced 
T^HUSZ ' *, r f ^ S ° metimeS braDChing fr ° m the base > and «**>« the habit of a Cypress, but 
^ra h f Zr TT? a r ,Ca H T d - 7 hetrUDk '' he adds '" of this last variety is simple as high as the middle. 
wiU a ' T 'i u a / 0Ugh "^ ^ ° f a br ° WDish ash - C0l0ur ' ^ scar <4 ^e than a foot thick, 
w.th a yellowish, resinous, hard strong scented (olente) wood." Whether it will I*™. th« M,w« «f ru~« n-u.,-- -M..J 
uncertain 
hPtwoon A* i ^v • u ThG y ° Ung branches of this tree > when they are visible, are compressed, obovate 
These 
are __ m 
pairs crosswise 
mnaut nf fm.* Wrt „j.. 1 i ^ . — ""r*"6> ouvl t-otaiivcu, auuut nan an men ion?, ami 
and hlv, 1 1 f K CS ' u° 8tandl , nS Cr0SSWi8e ' * tW ° Ver ^ Une ^ al P airs " These scales m applied face to face, 
two sma 2tZ^lZ ; Th f ^ ^V *** "" tW ° ^ SCaleS have each two «**■ * ** base ; the 
^^t z 2i r?r ^ Tu :t in the cones > with ™p*«*** »^^«»* ^, &*, m v. 
w i I h yellow. 
natural 
palpebm. IAndley. 
In. 
A handsome stove epiphyte 
Messrs 
Flowers white, with a lip stained 
charming species, in the way of D. dmrifi 
slender than those of the species iust named Z« f P m6 ° f dlStant hawthora - Ita 8teD19 m more 
the base of the lip which is not 1 • , ? T™ m ,0 ° Se raCemes and white > with a deep yeUow stain at 
These elevated inel »L ^ t ^ ^ "^ ^ bUt is frin S ed near the ^ase with long haLf like eyelashes. 
r* vingw^h ^Z£?^£ "* '"* 1 tflnniMte near th « base in a 3-lobed tubercll, for the purpose of 
Novembl, S^ ^ ^ Tol'v p ^ ^ ^ " ^^ *"* » W ^^ ^ M -- Ve ^ in 
83. Achimknes eschebiana. lemaire. 
ie handsome. 
9 and longiflora S 
Said 
^tLl^fl^ ^2^ J*^ ^^ ^e nowers are L.„ 
tne limb is a rich crimson, spotted with bluish violet when ?oim? off : the orifice 
itermediate 
purpli 
Van Boutte's Flore, 1848, p. 405 d 
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