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by the Chinese, who call it“ Ma-ti-hsiang.“ It is 
the of the * Prete the leaves being 
8 inches across and 1 s high, At Kew the 
Jeaves have pe aeiy aa the blade is cordate, 
6 inches by 4 inches, smooth, red green 1 ger. pale 
beneath, and odourless. The flowers, which are pro- 
duced in a cluster among the Habe e short 
stal ks, a a curiously-inflated urn-like perianth 
24 inches across, the colour of which 
is deep velvety-maroon, with a large white boss-like 
h at the base of each lobe, The other species, 
of which there are about half-a-dozen grown at Kew, 
are chiefly of botanical interest, but A. maximum is 
gascan Orchids are not, as a rule, as easily grown as 
bbages, as witness 
e 
Eulophiella may, however, prove an exception. One 
thing is quite certain, it cannot be grown success- 
fully in an ordinary stove, 
Puaivs BERNAYSII. 
There is a healthy plant now bearing two tall spikes 
of flowers in the Orchid-house at Kew, which is 
labelled P. Blumei var. Baranya we which differs 
in colour from the “ly of that name figured in the 
Botanical nd in behaviour, from 
what is said of it in Veitch’s Orchid Manual, pt. vi., 
ANTHOCERCIS VISCOSA.* 
* sang plant, € of which we give an illustration (fig. 51), 
specimen furnished by Mr. Holden, meson 
— baden Court, p beat of West Australia. w ence 
it „h le 
seeds at rage bes Sound Pasa Captain 0 
pegs bck and sent them to Kew in 1822, whe 
it flowered in May, 1824, and was vy red in the 
Botanical Magazine, at t. 2961, on January 1, 1830, 
It is a soft-wooded shrub, growing to a height of 
6 or 8 feet, with a clammy exudation on all 
parts. The leaves are alternate, somewhat fleshy, 
14 to 2} inches long, 1 to 14 inch broad, broadly 
je 
gabe, L 
Fig. 51,—ANTHOCERCIS VISCOSA: EVERGREEN GREENHOUSE SHRUB; FLOWERS WHITE. 
é : . obovate and very obtuse, and thickly gland- 
certain to become popular with cultivators of indoor p. 11. The Kew ext was 2 from oh fre Me v. rand ry ' Tho Somers pan igan oya 
d, K 
arza 2 e 
e eee e 
ULOPHIELLA 1 found it growing wild 
Two plants of this ne ascan Orchid are It differs from Re e poate n: 
now in flower in the Ba es at Kew, one bear- soft N Ne x pane ue p 
ing two the other three er the pereon spike being white, he pal gg 
though the 
with 
to p 
ds, pratt e e — — 
the plant will be easy to remains pose at Brisbane, and it was rcis viscosa, B. Brown. JOM Napier. t. 1624; 
wed. The eat * have made comparatively 0 a5 se Ss i him by Sir Joseph Hooker. e b. 59; Miers, Ilustr.tions of 
amall psendobulbs, notwithstanding the excessive i Pomibly ‘bly. the Fijian plant is distinct from this, 3 Plants, v. 2, t. 82; Bentham, Flora Austra- 
as large se any I have seen, 
