340 TRANSACTIONS AND PEOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sees. lix. 



possessing the prominent veins common to the order 

 Melastomacete. The flowers are solitary and terminal ; 

 the petals dark purple. 



Lucidia gratissima, Sweet. The genus Lucidia contains 

 only two species, the one under notice, which inhabits 

 temperate regions of the Himalayas, and L. Pinceana, 

 Hook., a native of the Khasia Hills. L. gratissima is one 

 of the handsomest of our winter-flowering greenhouse 

 plants ; the inflorescence forming terminal cymes of light 

 pink flowers, which, as the specific name implies, are 

 strongly perfumed. L. Pinceana is distinguishable from 

 it by closer veins upon the foliage, and by the small 

 interpetaline lobes upon the corolla. The genus is evidently 

 heterostylic. Our plant of L. gratissima is short-styled, our 

 plants of L. Pinceana are long-styled. 



Of other plants that have flowered the following may 

 be mentioned: — Cattleya Bowringiana, Veitch, — a native 

 of Honduras ; and C. lahiata, Lindl, — a variable species 

 from tropical America, one of the best of winter-flowering 

 orchids ; Oldenlandia Deppeana, DC, — a small-growing 

 white-flowered plant of the order Eubiacese, inhabiting 

 Mexico; Clitoria Terncdea, Linn., — with pretty blue papi- 

 lionaceous flowers, common in the tropics. 



