GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
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ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire leaves. 
but in four rows. 
cone 
Bracts broad-ovate, keeled, bright green, imbricated like the scales of a 
f . # n , + + ( ? 0r0lla .f ^^ mUCh bey ° nd thG braCte - Tube narrow > tai^hapt*, a little inflated, 
yet laterally compressed at the mouth ; hmb large, two-lipped ; lips spreading : upper one two-lobed, the lower threc- 
lobed, all the lobes emargmate. Stamens four, included.— BoL Mag, t. 4556. 
237. Posoqueria Formosa. Plcmcfon. 
Karste\ 
fin 
plant, from the Caraecas, with long white flowers. Belongs to Cinchonads. Introduced by M. K.irsien. 
Flowered by M. Van Houtte. (Fig. 114.) 
it 
A fine tree, from the virgin forests of the mountains of Tovar, at the elevation of 5000 to G000 feet above the sea 
grows from 12 to 20 feet high. Its leaves are broad, oblong-lanceolate, wavy, leathery like a laurel. The flowers are 
3 to 4 inches long, pure white, slender-tubed, and highly fragrant. When in fruit it is said to resemble an apple tree. 
Nearly related to the Gardenias, as which it requires the same cultivation.- 
Flore des SerreSy t. .587. 
238. Oxcidium LUfiiDUM atkatum. Lindley. 
A handsome orcliidaeeou 
Mexico 
with rich crimson flowers. Introduced by the 
Horticultural Society. 
Whether or not 0. luridum is really a mere variety of 
the Carthagena Oncid becomes more and more doubtful as 
our knowledge of such plants extends. In the present 
instance it is unnecessary to open that question, the plant 
now mentioned being undoubtedly a very fine form of the 
lurid Oncid, whatever the relation of the latter to the 
Carthagena Oncid may finally prove to be. With the 
habit of the common form of the species this combines 
flowers smaller than usual, very flat, with olive and rose- 
coloured sepals and petals, and a rich crimson lip furnished 
at the base with 5 purple-black tubercles, four of which 
surround the fifth ; of these tubercles the central and two 
anterior are oblong and simple, the two posterior are con- 
cave, or almost kidney-shaped, with the concavity back- 
wards. The wings of the column are oblong truncated 
fleshy bodies attached by the narrowest end. It is a fine 
variety, in some respects like the purple-lipped Oncid 
(0. hreMatochihun), and requiring the same treatment as 
0. luridum itself. — Journal of HorL Soc, vol. vi. 
239. Adenostoma fasciculata. Hooker and 
Amott. A hardy, heath-like evergreen bush, with 
small white flowers. Belongs to Roseworts. Native 
of California. Introduced by the Horticultural 
Society. 
A small heath-like bush, with erect weak branches. 
Leaves linear, sharp -pointed, concavo-convex, arising in 
fascicles from the axil of primordial leaves of the same 
form, but dying early and leaving behind a pair of spine- 
pointed stipules; in this arrangement they may he com- 
pared to Berberries and similar plants. Flowers white, 
small, in terminal panicles, with much the appearance of 
the Alpine Spircea. The leaves of the cultivated plant 
continually evince a tendency to become 2- or 3-Iobed near 
the point. It is said to grow 2 feet high, in open exposed 
places near Monterey. In point of beauty it is inferior to 
the worst of the Spiraeas, and is a mere botanical curiosity. 
Whether it is hardy or not has not been at present ascer- 
tained. — Journal of HorL Soc 9 vol. vi, 
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