CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 695 



Ophiopogon spicatus. 



Liriope spicata, Loureiro cocJdn. 200 (monente D. Brown 

 ab antopsid edocto exemplaris archetypi in Herb. Parisiano 

 asservati) . 



In 0. spicato (monente D. Brown) semen (saepe 2 — 3), 

 nudum baccatum de ovulo mow post factum conceptum auctu 

 prcecociori ccetera illidente exque germinis vertice erumpente 

 excretum s basi cum exuto g ermine cohcerens. 



In 0. spicatus, Mr. Brown has found the fruit to be of 

 the same kind he has ascribed to Peliosanthes Tela, in 

 the twelfth volume of the ' Linnean Transactions y [vol. 1, 

 p. 362]. 



Bot. Reg. 593 (1822). 



M acradenia. Labellum sessile, cucullato-concavum in- 

 divisum acuminatum. Corolla petala distincta patula. 

 Columna libera, lobis apicis conniventibus. Masses pollinis 

 2, exsulcse. Broion MSS. 



M acradenia lutescens, Broion MSS. Cor. sordide lutea, 

 intiis purpureo-fusco marmorata. Labellum corolla brevius, 

 ecalcaratum, album, intiis purpureo interrupt^ lineatum, 

 obovatum, appendice lineari acuta reflexd. Columna longi- 

 tudine fere labelli, semiteres, supra sensim latior lobis late- 

 ralibus apicis in cucullum antheram amplexantem conniven- 

 tibus. Anthera e basi paulb gibbosiore int usque biloculare 

 producta in acumen lato-lineare concavum ipsa basi aliquo- 

 ties longius processum subulatum stigmatis, glandulam, ejusque 

 appendicem, involvens. Massse pollinis cuneiformes, modice 

 compressa, post migrationem apicibus suis acutis affixa 

 disco apicis dilatati appendicis elongated proscolla?. Brown 

 MSS. 



An undescribed species, now first introduced by Mr. 

 Griffin, who received the plant, represented in the annexed 

 plate, from Trinidad. It flowered last December in the 

 hothouse at South Lambeth, and was communicated to 

 Mr. Brown, who has made it the foundation of the present 



