5. L. crinita. Lindley. 
linear 
slightly hairy. 
6. L. aromatica* 
hairy oval central one ; appendix inconspicuous, terminating a narrow shaggy elevation. Column long, 
Petals very hairy — Mexico. Petals yellow, very acute, much smaller than the greenish sepals. 
Lindley {alias Maxillaria aromatica, Hooker). 
narrowed to the base, spotless, hair 
inside ; the lateral lobes ovate, slightly curved, obtuse ; the central unguiculate, dilated 
2-lobed, concave. Column long, narrow, hairy. Petals naked— Mexico ! Peru. 
182. OCHNA ATKO-PURPURKA. 
Be 
Cutnlolle. {alias Diporidium atro-purpu- 
reum Wend I. ; alias Ochna arhorea Bur- 
chellj alias 0. serrulate Hocfotetler ; alias 
0. Natafitift M< met ; alias 0. Delagoensi 
Ueklon.) A greenhouse shrub, of some 
beauty, from Southern Africa. I belongs t o 
the Oclinads. Lately produced its hand- 
some yellow flowers in the ltoyal Garden, 
Kew. Said, however, to have been intro- 
duced in 1823. (Fig. 87.) 
A native of South Africa, east of the Cape, as 
far as Delagoa Bay, varying in size, in tlie soli- 
tary or racemose flowers and in the size and 
notches of the leaves, which are something 
sharply serrated, sometimes nearly entire. It 
derives its name from the dried state of the plant, 
when the large persistent calyxes become purple- 
brown, especially when in fruit. In the living 
plant, the bright yellow flowers with pale yellow- 
green calyx enliven the greenhouse in the month 
of March. 
The history of its having at last flowered, after 
refusing to do so for twenty-* en years, is thus 
given by Mr. Smith:— " Thinking it would be 
benefited by a greater warmth during winter, 
and having accommodation in the Palm-house, 
it was placed there last Autumn. The result was, 
development of this and other slow-growing Cape and New Holland plants. 
that in April we were agreeably surprised to 
it profusely covered with its pretty, sweet-scented 
flowers. Several other plants have flower 
similarly for the first time on being placed in 
„ greater degree of heat, which shows that with 
our long-continued low temperature in winter and 
spring, and deficiency of bright sunshine in 
summer (as compared with the Cape), our usual 
greenhouse climate is not adapted for the perfect 
' Botanical Magazine, t. 4519. 
183. Motjssonia elegans. Becaisne. 
A hothouse Gesnerad, with orange and yellow flowers, 
from Guatemala. Introduced by M. Van Houtte. (Kg. 88.) 
c A •■■-*■- /«v>npl-toothed. Umbels three or four-flowered 
Stems and leaves covered with soft hairs. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate crenel too Guatemala, it will 
Corolla scarlet with a yellow limb, spotted in lines with purple. Being a natne ot me mcu 
flower in the open ground (in Belgium) in summer. f G ^ lant evident , y 
• The genus Monssonia was established in 1 848 by M. Regel upon the ^^^ ^ de ' 9CI | bed by K „„th, 
allied to, although quite distinct from the species here described, as well as from the rem* lan , opaisn J 
under the name of Oesneria tylvatic* in Humboldt and Bonpland's Nova ge*. <t * Araer ^ZZS^ZS 
having carefully studied the whole family of <Wac«r, the result* of which conation have been part.ally made pubhc 
