Dr Graham's Description of New or Hare Plants. 173 

 Ferraria elongata. 



F. elongata ; caule simplice ; laciniis corollje interioribus maculatis. 



Description Bulb large, smooth, shining red, fiatte.ned on the sides, 



and tapering at both extremities. Stem (above 2 feet high in the speci- 

 men described, which, however, was probably drawn up from its situa- 

 tion) erect, simple, round, flexuose, pruinose, as is every other part of 

 the plant except the peduncle, germen, and flower. Stem leaves few 

 (about 3 inches long), lanceolate, strongly nerved and plicate, erect, 

 green or scarcely pruinose ; sheaths very long but variable, devoid of 

 leafy expansion at the top and bottom of the stem. Spathe {11^ inch 

 long) elliptical, coriaceous, bivalvular, many flowered, closed at the 

 apex, where the valves are thin, transparent, membranous, blunt. 

 Flowers expanding in succession, one expanded at a time. Peduncles 

 (projecting half an inch above the membranous apices nf the spathe) 

 round, pale-green, naked. Corolla (fully % of an inch long, I4 inch 

 across) bright -blue, yellow at its origin, white immediately above, the 

 white spot drawn to a point near the middle of each segment, and or- 

 namented on the inside with numerous rather oblong spots of deep-blue, 

 subrotate, C-parted, segments elliptical, slightly undulated, nearly equal, 

 the inner ratlier the narrowest and slightly pointed, the outer blunt. 

 Stamens united, shorter than the corolla. Filaments pale-blue, with 3 pro- 

 minent angles, short, toothed on the outside, teeth curved, erect be- 

 tween the base of the auther-lobes ; anthers erect, twice as long as the 

 filaments, sagittate at the base, slightly twisted, bilocular, bursting along 

 their outer surface. Pistil shorter than the stamens ; germen green, 

 naked, C3'lindrical, tapering a little near the pedicel, 3-locular ; ovules 

 very numerous, attached to a central receptacle, which is double, in each 

 loculament, and continued from the extremities of the dissepiments : 

 style deep-blue, enlarging upwards ; stigmata slightly dilated, projecting 

 a little way between the anthers, haii-y on their upper surface. 



A single bulb of this very pretty plant was sent to Mr Neill from Buenos 

 Ayres by Mr Tweedie, in a ball of clay, in 1828. It was planted in the 

 open border in spring 1829, and stood till the middle of winter without 

 having flowered. It was then taken up and put into the stove, where it 

 flowered in June. The flowers expand about G o'clock in the morning, 

 and become involute and decay about 3 in the afternoon. It may pro- 

 bably be Ibund sufficiently hardy to bear the same treatment as Tigridia 

 pavonia. 



Habenaria obtusata .'' 



H. obtusata ? labello lineare, integerrimo, germen aequanti, comu brevi- 



ore ; folio unico radicale elliptieo, undulato. 

 Habenaria obtusata ? Goldie, MS. 

 Orchis obtusata ; Pursh, Flor. Americ. Sept. ii. 588 ? 

 Description — Root consisting of a few strong, simple, fleshy fibres. 

 Leaf{2h inches long, 1-^ broad) radical, solitary, elliptical, undulate, 

 keeled, many nerved. Scape (5 inches high) erect, angular, 15-flowered 

 in the specimen described. Bractea green, linear-subulate, smaller up- 

 wards, the lower longer, the upper shorter than the flowers. Flovters 

 small, cernuous. Perianth o-parted, 3 outer segments green, tlie upper 

 cordato-suborbicular, slightly pointed, cucuUate, the lateral spreading, 

 linear, somewhat tapering, slightly twisted, inner segments smaller, dis- 

 tant, lateral, 1-nerved, greenish, linear with a dilated white margin on 

 their lower side, for above half their length. Label lunCWneSir, entire, 

 green, pendulous, dilated and white at its base, shorter than the Spur, 

 which is white, tapering, green, and blunt at the apex. Column emargi. 

 natc, green in the centre, with an expanded wing projecting forward on 

 each side, along the edges of which the anlher-case is placed. Anther, 

 case nearly globular, with a pronjincnt edge in front. Pollen masses yel- 



