meet with much notice in this country. The colour of the flow 
Annates de Gand, t. 253. If this is to be brought into a state 
be kept carefully from red spider. It is very like a Coelestine. 
eedy for Knglish taste 
to 
173. Hypocyrta gracilis. Martins. A pretty 
creeping stove Gesnerad with cream-coloured 
flowers, from Brazil. Introduced by Messrs. Back- 
house of York. (Kg. 83.) 
Plant minutely pubescent, creeping, sometimes bearing 
ascending shoots. Stem purplish-brown, rooting from below 
the insertion of the leaves. Leaves on short petioles, 
opposite, thick, fleshy, ovate, subacute, dark green and 
slightly concave above, pale and often blotched with red 
and convex beneath. Flowers on short red peduncles, 
solitary or in pairs, single-flowered. Calyx of five, deep, 
linear-lanceolate segments, red at the base. Corolla moder- 
ately large, cream-white, spotted with orange on the under- 
side of the tube within, between bell-shaped and funnel- 
shaped : tube decurved, and again curved upward at the 
mouth ; limb of five, nearly equal, rounded segments. 
Ovary ovate, with a large gland at the base of the 
back. 
A soft-wooded suffruticose plant, of a trailing scandent 
habit, emitting roots from below the axils of the leaves, 
and growing as an epiphyte on trees in the moist forests 
of Tropical America. It should be kept in such an atmo- 
sphere as that appropriate for the cultivation of tropical 
Orchids, and if there is sufficient accommodation, it may 
be allowed to grow in a natural manner over any elevated 
surface, covered with turfy sods, kept moist ; or may be 
planted in a pot or basket filled with loose turfy soil and 
suspended from the root. — Bot. Mag., t. 4531. 
This is not a Hypocyrta, as Decaisne limits the genus, 
but would rather belong to what he understands by 
Alloplectus. 
174. Cyc^oches Pescatouei (alias Acineta 
- 
glauca Linden.) A stove Orchid from New 
Grenada. Flowers yellow and brown. Intro- 
duced by M, Linden in 1848* Blossomed with 
M. Pescatore. 
C. Pescatore *, foliis coriaceis subtus glaucis, racemo 
multifloro pendulo, ovario tomentoso, sepalis oblongis acutis, 
pe talis minoribus lanceolatis basi angustatis, labello piano 
trilobo medio tomentoso lobo intermedio carnosiore 
acuto. 
Tins noble plant is only known to us from the inspection of two dried flowers sent from M. Pescatore's rich collection by 
M. Luddeman, who describes it thus. « A much stronger plant than Acineta Humboldti, with a pseudo-bulb 0.16 of a 
yard long and 0.09 of a yard broad. The leaves are leathery, lanceolate, glaucous beneath, 0.60 to 0.00 of a yard long on 
the young pseudo-bulbs, which are not more than half the size of the imported ones. The flower stem hangs down 
perpendicularly, a yard long, with ninety-six flowers. These last about a fortnight, but for several J»*****?* 
string of buds excited the curiosity of visitors. The sepals are dull yellow, a little brown ms.de ; the petals and 1 .p 
are bright yellow." The specimens sent us measured If inch in diameter. The spec.es seems to be closely alhed to the 
bearded Cycnoches (C. barbatum.) 
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