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a vigorous state it is full 4 feet high, and bears 5 or 6 flowers at 

 the end of its graceful stem. The plant, which flowered with 

 Messrs. Low, was a little, un healthy off-set, scarcely more than 6 

 inches high. The leaves are narrow and stiff ; the flowers about 

 2£ inches long, 1^ inch across the mouth, of the most vivid 

 orange scarlet, with a broad edge of clear yellow. It is even 

 handsomer than B. intermedia and marginata. 



16. Piiarbitis limbata. 



P. limbata ; annua ; caule retrorsum piloso, foliis cordatis 

 integris angulatis trilobisque pilosis lobis basi dilatatis acu- 

 minatis, pedunculis solitaries unifloris petiolis dupld brevi- 

 oribus, sepalis basi hispidis apice pilosis linearibus acutis 

 longissimis. 



Native country, Java ; imported by Messrs. Rollissons. 



Specimens of this very handsome plant received a certificate 

 of merit at the meeting of the Society, October 2, 1849. It 

 appears to be an annual, seeding freely, and has much the appear- 

 ance of Pharbitis Nil, from which it principally differs in the 

 great length of its sepals, their excessive hispidity, and the 

 shorrness of the flower-stalk. The flowers, equal in size to the 

 old Convolvulus major, but less spreading at the mouth, are of an 

 intense violet, edged with pure white, and have a beautiful ap- 

 pearance. A Brazilian Pharbitis, referred to P. Nil by Mr. 

 Gardner (No. 79 of his Herbarium), is very near this, but has 

 the long flower-stalks of that species. 



17. Dendrobium Palpebral. 

 D. Palpebral (Dendrocoryne) ; caulibus erectis clavatis tetragonis 

 apice tantum foliosis, foliis coriaceis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 acutis planis 5— 7-nerviis, racemis multifloris laxis latera- 

 libus, bracteis angustis membranaceis deciduis, sepalis pa- 

 tentissimis oblongis acutis, petalis conformibus obtusis den- 

 ticulatis, labello ovato obtuso cucullato pubescente versus 

 basim palpebris longis ciliato. 



Native of Moulmein ; imported by Messrs. Veitch and Son. 



A charming species, in the way of D. densiflorum, with the 

 perfume of distant hawthorn. Its stems are more slender than 

 those of the species just named ; the flowers in loose racemes and 

 white, with a deep yellow stain at the base of the lip, which is not 

 only covered with soft down, but is fringed near the base with long 



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