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Ophiopogon spicatus. 



Liriope spicata, Lomeiro cochin. 200 {monente B. Brown 

 ah autopsid edocto exemplaris archetypi in Herb. Farisiano 

 asservati). 



In O. spicato {monente B. Brown) semen (ssepe 2 — 3), 

 nudum baccatum de ovulo mow post factum conceptum auctu, 

 prcecociori catera illidente exque germinis vertice erumpente 

 excretum : basi cum exuto germine cohcerens. 



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

 the same kind he has ascribed to Peliosanthes Teta, in 

 the twelfth volume of the 'Linneau Transactions' \vol. 1, 

 p. 362]. 



Bot. Beg. 593 (1822). 



Macradenia. Labellum sessile, cucullato-concavum in- 

 divisum acuminatum. Corolla petala distincta patula. 

 Colmnna libera, lobis apicis conniventibus. Massce pollinis 

 2, exsulcse. Brown MSS. 



Macradenia lutescens. Brown MSS. Cor. sordide lutea, 

 intiis purpureo-fusco marmorata. Labellum corolla brevius, 

 ecalcaratum, album, intiis purpureo interrupts 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 paulo gibbosiore intusque biloculare 

 producta in acumen lato-lineare concavum ipsa basi aliquo- 

 ties longius proeessum subulatum stigmatis, glandulam, ejusque 

 appendicem, involvens. Massse pollinis cuneiformes, modice 

 compressa, post migrationem apicibus suis acutis afflxce 

 disco apicis dilatati appendicis elongatce proscollce. 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 



