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Some are said to bear little men and women swinging below their canopy 
of petals ; others have appeared to carry the likenesses of lizards, frogs, and 
other reptiles, crouching among their leaves; while some have been com- 
pared to Oberons and Titanias hanging by their tiny arms from the bells 
where they have concealed themselves. To what the flowers of the plant 
now figured can be likened we -profess not to know, unless to some of the 
fantastic animals of heraldry; a prene segreant, as they term it, would do 
as well as any other for a comparison.” 
Lastly may be mentioned Oncidium Harrisonianum (t. 1569), whose 
history is thus given by Lindley :— 
“‘ This very distinct species was discovered on the Organ Mountains of 
Brazil by Mr. William Harrison, of Rio de Janeiro. We have taken the 
- liberty of ‘naming it aftera family more distinguished than any other for the 
number of species they have introduced, and for the success with which 
they have cultivated them. Whenever Horticulture shall again find a 
historian, he will have to record the period when the difficulty of cultiva- 
ting tropical Orchidez, which was once considered insuperable, was success- 
fully overcome. In such a history the names of Mr. William Harrison, of 
Mrs. Arnold Harrison, and of Mr. Richard Hatrison, will stand among the 
foremost. . . . Our figure has been madefrom a drawing and caries | 
communicated by Mrs. Arnold Harrison in October, 1832.” 
In the Botanical Magazine for 1833 a few novelties were also figured, 
including Epidendrum Harrisoniz (t. 3209) and E. pygmeum (t. 3233), two 
Brazilian species from the collection of Mrs. Arnold Harrison, which had 
been sent home by her brother at Rio ; Bletia acutipetala (t. 3217), a native 
of South Carolina, which flowered at the Liverpool Botanic Garden ; Cata- 
setum trifidum (t. 3262) from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and Pleuro- 
thallis prolifera (t. 3261) a Brazilian species from the collection) of the Hon. 
and Rev. W. Herbert. ; 
Perhaps the most remarkable addition of 1834 was Epipendrum bicornu- 
tum (Bot. Mag., t. 3332), a plant now known as Diacrium bicornutum. It 
flowered in Earl Fitzwilliam’s collection, at Wentworth, in April of that 
year, and Mr. Cooper stated that it was introduced {rom Trinidad by 
Messrs. Shepherd, of Liverpool. Ccelogyne flaccida was also figured in the 
same work (t. 3318), having been sent home by Dr. Wallich, and flowered 
in the collection just named. Bletia Shepherdi (t. 3319) is a native of 
Jamaica, and had been cultivated for some time at the Laverpocs Botanic 
Garden before its distinctness was fully recognized. ee 
The Botanical Register for 1834 also contains several novelties, ao 
among them Batemannia Colleyi (t. 1714) and Grobya Amherstize (t. 1740), 
each of which represented a new genus. The former was “sent from 
Demerara to James Bateman, Esq., by Mr. Colley, his collector in that — 
