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GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
The fertile flowers and the fruit, although for several years known to us, have not until now been illustrated or described 
except by Adolph Scheele, who has published a description from Lindheimer's specimens in the Linnsea. The flowers 
which Endlicher happened to examine were pentapetalous, which is not the more usual case ; and he erroneouslv states 
the plant to form a large tree, whereas it is commonly a slender shrub, of five or ten feet in height, or at most a small 
tree. Misled by these discrepancies, and by the differences of the two kinds of flowers, and, 
it would seem from his description, happening to possess tetrasepalous as well as tetrapetalous 
flowers, (although there are five sepals in all my Lindheimerian and other specimens,) Mr. 
wron 
ly introduced a second species, under the name of XI. keterophylla. The 
leaflets vary from five, or even three, on the earlier leaves, to seven. In seedling plants, 
raised in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, I have noticed a lusus of the earliest leaves, in 
which the leaflets are confluent/' 
198, Hymenocallis Borskiana 
Guayra, with white flowers smelling 
Flowered in the Botanie Garden. Tip; 
Be Vriese. A stove bulb from La 
f Vanilla. Belongs to Amarvllids. 
Leaves two to two and a half feet long, dull green. Scape compressed, as long as the 
leaves. Flowers seven, 
in an umbel, white, 
with a very thin trans- 
parent entire coronet. 
De Vriese, Epimetron, 
1846. 
199. Sarcopo- 
dium Lobbii. {alias 
Bolbophyllum Lob- 
A 
bii Lindley^) 
stove epiphyte be- 
longing to the Na- 
tural Order of Or- 
chids. 
Native of 
Java. Mowers nan- 
kin-yellow, large and showy. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. (Pig. 98.) 
One of the many good things sent from Java to Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, by their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. 
* How fine a plant of its kind this is, may be surmised, by its having been taken for a Ccelogyne : the flowers are full four 
inches across, yellow, shaded with cinnamon, spotted with light brown, and speckled outside with brown-purple : we know 
of no species of the genus comparable to it for beauty." Our drawing was made from the plant of Messrs. Veitch, after 
it had gratified the public at the May Exhibition of the Chiswick Gardens for 1850. Pseudobulbs ovate, smooth, green, 
nearly as large as a pigeon's egg, springing from a scaly creeping stem terminated by a stalked, oblong, leathery, solitary 
leaf. Scape arising one from the side of each pseudobulb, yellowish, spotted with brown, shorter than the leaf, its base 
sheathed with imbricated, convex, spotted scales. Flowers large, solitary, spreading. Sepals lanceolate, acuminated, 
deep yellow, the upper one externally marked with purple spots running in lines ; the lateral ones falcate, streaked and 
clouded with purple. Petals resembling the upper sepal, but smaller and streaked with purple lines, reflexo-patent. Lip 
cordato-ovate, acuminate, reflexed, yellow, with minute orange dots. This, like the rest of the numerous species of 
Bolbophyllum, is a tropical epiphyte, and requires to be kept in the warm division of the Orchid-house. It grows and 
flowers freely on a block of wood, suspended from the roof of the house, and having a piece of Sphagnum-moss attached. 
In winter an excess of moisture, either in the atmosphere of the house or in the moss or block of wood, is prejudicial ; 
and in summer the plant must be shaded from the mid-day sun.— Bot. Mag., t. 4532. 
Between Dendrobes and Bolbophyls there exists a race having the large flowers of the former, and the pecu- 
liar habit of the latter, and hence referred to the one or the other genus according to the fancy of the observer. 
They agree with Dendrobes in having four pollen masses, and a hornless column ; but they have coriaceous, not thin 
half-transparent flowers, and a tough leathery lip, enlarged not contracted at the base. If they had a caudicle and 
gland to their pollen masses, they would be Asiatic Maxillarias. They form neither horn nor spur, but are simply 
inflated and expanded at the base of the sepals. On the other hand, although they grow like Bolbophyls, yet they have 
no horns to their column, but twn ™llpn tyi*c C oc on d «h A ;«. ia*f» A U»*k«-» fl„«,^« «v^,i o f.,wv«>r difforance. To these 
