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GLEANINGS AND OBIGINAL MEMORANDA 
the under side. The spikes of the fruit are 3 or 4 inches long, very compact, with small downy acorns almost 
enclosed within very tomentose cups, tlie scales of which are large, distinct, and so much elevated as almost to give the cups 
the appearance of being covered with soft warts. A very fine thing. 
91. TjMLIA GRAyms. An Orcliidaceous Epiphyte, with v< 
A native of Bahia. Jlowered in May with M. Morel, of Paris. 
nankeen 
(Fig. 38.) 
grandis 
subhorizontalibus, sepalis lanceolatis reflexis, petalis late-lanceolatis denticulato-crispis convexis labello parallelis et 
paulo longioribus, labello membranaceo venoso nuio undulato trilobo : laciniis lateralibus circa columnam convolutis et 
multo longioribus. 
The accompanying Figure, the natural size, was taken from a flower received from Mons. Morel, along with a sketch 
masses 
narrow to the base, as in Cattleya maxima ; the leaf is represented as being firm, stiff, and rather broader at the base than 
the point. The flowers grow in pairs, on a peduncle issuing from a spathe, as in the species just named. The sepals and 
petals are nankeen-coloured ; the lip white, washed with rose at the base in the inside, with purple veins, and a pure white 
border. The nearest affinity of this curious thing is th the L«lias Perrinii et majalis. 
92. Cyaxotis vittata. Lindley. 
Trad 
stove perennial belonging to the Natural Order of Spiderworts (Commelinacea?.) 
A trailing Mexican 
purpl 
The stems, which are much 
branched, he prostrate, or hang down from the shelf on which the plant is placed, and are of a deep rich purple j the 
leaves have the same colour, but are striped with a greenish grey, and when fresh are exceedingly pretty ; on which 
account the plant is a favourite for covering rough unsightly places in hothouses. The flowers are violet-coloured ; they 
appear for a long time, one after the other, from within a couple of terminal bracts, or spathes, of which one is shaped 
ince the ordinary leaves, except being sessile ; the other is much shorter, and boat-shaped. The stamens bear a tuft of 
jointed hairs in the middle, protrude beyond the tube of the corolla ; the anthers are transversely linear, or almost 
crescent-shaped, with a small cell on each horn.- " 
93. C'CPAXIA Cuxx 
Journ. Hort. Soc., Vol v. p. 1 39. 
Hooker. 
Stadtmaimia 
Introduo 
Natural order of Soapworts (Sapindacea) . with 
Cunn.) 
A stove tree, 
Flowers in the spring 
Palms 
it 
exceeding many of them in height, with large pinnated leaves, and the young branches clothed with rusty down ; 
nowers m the spring, and is succeeded by large clusters of orange-coloured downy fruit. This is the plant here 
mentioned. It is a native of New Holland, on the north-east coast, near the tropic, and was discovered by Allan 
tunmngham, who speaks of it in his notes as a « tree 30-40 feet high, found in dark woods at Five Islands districted 
foW »S7 °/ ? aStfngS a * P ° rt Mac <l u *rrie> and Brisbane in Moreton Bav." It is a noble plant, with handsome 
o ge and iruit, but rather insignificant flowers, and of too lofty growth for ordinary cultivation.-i?otantW Magmne, 
