FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



8.5 



axils of the leaves on very long stalks, are bright orange-red, 

 with the petals divided at the edge into bristle-pointed teeth. 



It is a very pretty species, which deserves to be more gene- 

 rally cultivated than it is. March 19, 1848. 



7. Brasavola cucullata. M. Brown, in Hortus Kcwensis, 

 ed. 2, vol. v. p. 216. 



Origin unknown. 



This cut represents a flower of what I believe to be B. 

 cucullata, almost lost in English gardens. It is pure white, 



[Brasavola cucullata,] 



and remarkable for the manner in which its long tail-like 

 lip and other floral divisions fall to one side as soon as they are 

 disengaged from each other in the bud. In the foliage there 



