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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
angled, hairy, green, sometimes tinged with purple, and slightly viscid. Leaves often more than a span long, opposite and 
perfoliate ; the stalk very broad, and winged at the base ; the blade ovate, acute, or acuminate, often truncate 
or cordate at the base ; the surface wrinkled, the margin doubly toothed, downy above, pale, almost white, and 
somewhat woolly beneath. Panicle ample. Flowers very large ; lower lip almost orbicular, folded against the upper 
lip, but not so much as to exclude from view the deep blood-coloured spots in the inside. " We have hardly yet had the 
opportunity of testing its merits as a bedding plant, but we fear its tall and rude trrowth mav be snmfiwW a ™.W ;* <•«- 
that purpose. Its handsome 
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Flowers white, with a deep stain of bright crimson 
A very handsome terrestrial Orchid, from Burma. 
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Flowers in November. 
(Fig. 72, a & b.) 
This is scarcely less beautiful than C. sylvatica, our No. 33 of the present volume : and must be classed among the 
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finest of the terrestrial Orchids. The stems are fully two feet high, and like all the other parts are clothed with long soft 
ia,rs_very slender, long-jointed, of unequal thickness, and blunt, containing in their interior a brown fluid. The 
owers are in loose, z.g-zag racemes, with conspicuous ovate acuminate bracts. The sepals and petals are finally turned 
nTLT 9 ♦ ° A Tf y • P i ara,lel WUh each 0ther ' the r are ^ow-white, with a few hairs on the back of the first. The 
imw«J I a * * n&rr0W 8h ° rt ear ° n each side at the base - The 8 P ur is vei 7 s,ender > and abruptly bent 
upwaras, so that its point touches the lip. A large silver medal, the highest ever given in Regent Street, was awarded 
first time Horticultural Society on the 7th of Nov., 1848, when it was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch for the 
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148. Oncidium varicosum. Undley. A fine stove Orchid from Brazil, with tall scapes covered 
wrtfc a glaucous bloom and bright yellow flowers. Introduced by M. de Jonghe, 
1 lowered at Chiswick, in October, 1849. ' 
which t* Str ° ng " growin S s P ecie s, of considerable beauty. The leaves are firm and ligulate-lanceolate. The scapes 
showy nowerT^rr 17 g , US ' and about 3 feet lon S» hav « » great branching panicle, loaded with from 80 to 90 large 
with two ovate 1 t l and PCtalS ^ Pak duU gnea banded with dul1 brown ' The U P is large > ver y bright yell ° W ' 
teeth one «k«h:» kt ^ T 6 * crenate in front > aad a Globed central portion. The crest consists of two triple 
column arethlnl t? ? f ' ™ d ° f * Utt,e ring ° f Varicose veins P laced on * acb sid * * !t " The wing9 ° f "" 
column are oblong, whole coloured, and finely notehed.-/ «™. llort. So*, vol. v. p. 143. 
of Brussels. 
