34 NEW PLANTS RECENTLY INTRODUCED INTO GARDENS. 



hairs like eyelashes. These elevated lines pass along the middle, 

 and terminate near the base in a 3-lobed tubercle, for the pur- 

 pose of receiving which the base of the column is hollowed out 

 into an oblong cavity. It was received from Messrs. Yeitch 

 in Nov. 1849. 



18. Spathoglottis aurea. 



S. aurea; foliis lato-lanceolatis 9-11-nerviis scapo aequalibus, 

 racemo contracto, bsacteis herbaceis obtusissimis concavis, 

 labelli lobis lateralibus linearibus erectis columns subaequa- 

 libus intermedio subconformi apice ovato lateralibus parvis 

 acutis intus villosis, cristas lobis 2 carnosis erectis oblique 

 rotundatis divergentibus. 



Native country, Malacca; imported by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 



A rather handsome terrestrial Orchid, with narrow leaves like 

 those of a Phaius, and a scape 2 feet high, bearing at the very 

 end about half a dozen large golden-yellow flowers, with a few- 

 dull sanguine spots on the lip. Mr. T. Lobb found it growing 

 on Mount Ophir, near the beautiful Nepenthes sanguinea. Ac- 

 cording to a memorandum by the late Mr. Griffith, now before 

 me, it inhabits rocks on Mount Ophir, at places called Goonong, 

 Toondook, and Laydang. 



19. Trichoglottis pallens. 



T. pallens ; floribus lateralibus subsolitariis, labello trilobo : 



laciniis lateralibus subacinaciformibus erectis medio callosis 



margine tenuibus intermedio obovato utrinque cis apicem 



denticulato supra carina villosa aucto callis duobus biden- 



tatis uno ante alterum sacco nullo, columna glabra mutica 



basi in labellum decurrente. 



A native of Manilla ; received from his Grace the Duke of 

 Devonshire's collection at Chatsworth. 



I observed this curious species in flower at Chatsworth in No- 

 vember last. It was then a dwarf erect plant, with oblong dis- 

 tichous leaves, and a lateral flower or two, not quite 2 inches in 

 diameter, pale yellowish green, with delicate brownish spots and a 

 white lip. The latter organ was oblong, with a white, shaggy 

 crest on the upper side, and a pair of short, yellowish scimitar- 

 shaped segments standing erect near the base ; within these were 

 a pair of forked callosities, one placed before the other in the 

 centre, but no sac or pouch was found between them. In this 



