By Mr. John Lindley. 



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closely pressed to the upper lip. The two cited figures 

 in the Botanical Register are very characteristic of the 

 plants. 



III. Astrapaea Wallichii. Lindley. 

 A plant of what is supposed to be this species was pre- 

 sented to the Society by William Town send Aiton, Esq. 

 from His Majesty's garden at Kew, and flowered in the 

 curvilinear stove. The heads of flowers were pendulous, not 

 erect, as represented in the 14th plate of my Collectanea 

 Botanica. Whether this difference between the cultivated 

 and spontaneous plants is merely the effect of debility in the 

 former, or indicative of a constitutional variance which may 

 be expected to exist in different species, I am unable satis- 

 factorily to determine. There are probably other species of 

 Astrapaea in the East Indies and Madagascar, and I am 

 inclined to think that it will be ascertained eventually that 

 my Astrapaea Wallichii, and the Astrapaea Wallichii of the 

 Gardens and of the Botanical Register are different. The 

 plant from which the figure in the Botanical Register, tab. 

 691, was taken, is growing in the greatest luxuriance, and 

 is one of the finest ornaments of the stove. It will be found 

 to be easily propagated, for cuttings were struck in the Garden 

 in the course of six weeks, by being planted in silver sand, 

 without moisture, 



IV. Laurus aggregata. Sims. 



This is common in collections, under the erroneous name 

 of Laurus glaaca. It is a low branching shrub with oval, taper- 

 pointed, three-nerved leaves, which are very glaucous beneath. 

 The flowers appear in the winter months, in dense clusters in 



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