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stick to the fingers like those of henbane. " The blue of the 

 flowers is remarkably deep and brilliant, so that the plant has a 

 handsome appearance ; but its leaves are rather coarse and weedy. 

 We know, however, of no plant better adapted for bouquets ; 

 for it will go on growing and flowering, in water, for two or three 

 weeks after being gathered." Mr. Douglas discovered this spe- 

 cies. The figure has been prepared from the species in a living 

 state in the London Horticultural Society's Garden. It will 

 grow in any common soil. {Bot. Reg., Nov.) 



Cl. Endogenae, group Hypogynbsse, alliance iiliales, order iiliaccce. 

 1024. VELTHEl'MW 8489 glauca [C. G. H 1834? O r.m Bot. mag. 3456 



* var. floribusrubescenti-purpilreis ifooA;. tei.y\irp\e-perianthed )(; lAJ or 1 ... Reddish 



The perianths are " of a very different colour " from those of 

 glauca itself; they are " of a reddish colour, marked with paler 

 spots; each segment with a little white spot at the point; the 

 limb purple." The kind is illustrated from the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden, where bulbs of it had been received from Baron Ludwig 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. {Bot. Mag., Dec.) 



Cl. Endogenae, group Hypogynbsae, alliance Liliales, order iiliacece, suborder ^isphodgleaa. 

 * 1058a. DAUBE'^NY^ Lindl. (" We name this new and curious genus after Dr. Charles Daubeny, 

 Professor of Botany at Oxford, whose interesting researches in vegetable chemistry have mate- 

 rially conduced to improve our knowledge of the physiology of plants." — Lindley.) 6. 1. sp. 1 

 *a.uxe?L Lindl. golden, coloured-flowered 5 lAl or i jn Y C. G. H 1832? O s.l Bot. reg. 1813 

 Synonyme : Mm^hxiia Mitea. Hort. 



In the bosom of two oblong fleshy furrowed prostrate leaves, 

 by the figure, 3 in. or more long, and 2 in., more or less, broad, 

 is situate a sessile umbel of numerous densely aggregated 

 yellow flowers : the outline of the umbel is about orbicular, and 

 more capacious than that of a crown piece. A good share of this 

 extent is occupied by the lower lips, three-parted, of the perianths, 

 the segments of which lower lips are obovate rounded, very 

 much larger than those of the inner lips, and are spread i-ayedly. 

 It " is very pretty as well as singular, so long as its blossoms 

 remain expanded, which is for about three weeks. From Mas- 

 sonia, with which it remarkably agrees in habit, it differs es-* 

 sentially in its tubular, not campanulate, very irregular, perianth, 

 and in the absence of the honey-pores which form so remark- 

 able a part of the character of Massonm. It was obtained from 

 the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Young of Epsom, under 

 the name of Masson/a lutea. No trace of it is to be found in 

 books ; so that it has, probably, been recently discovered in the 

 interior of the Cape Colony." (Bot. Beg., Nov.) 



Cl. Endog., group GynandrbsK, order OrchidScese. 

 2537. MAXILLA'RIA. [O p.r.w Bot. reg. 1811 



* cristata iznrf/. ciested-labellurned £ [23 or i jl WP Trinidad, near the Mud Lake 1834? 



Pseudo-bulb ovate, furrowed, bearing one leaf: this is oblong- 

 lanceolate and plaited. Scape pendulous, bearing two flowers. 

 Sepals If in. long; petals equal to them. The sepals are in co- 

 lour white and crimson ; the petals are so too, but not in the 

 same mode. " The striping, banding, and painting of the de- 



