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and safely transmitting an assemblage of living plants, small, 

 indeed, but consisting entirely of either novel or extremely 

 rare subjects, and, for its size, certainly one of the best col- 

 lections ever sent to this country. 



Pitcairnia staminea was first figured in Mr. Loddiges 

 Botanical Cabinet, tab. 773, and since in the Botanical Maga- 

 zine, tab. 2411. 



XXX. Ocymum febrifugum. Lindley. 

 This, one of the fever plants of Sierra Leone, is a shrub, 

 about three feet high, with the appearance of a common 

 labiate plant. There is no beauty whatever in its foliage, 

 but it is valuable, as being a plant with which the dangerous 

 fevers of the coast of Africa are alleviated. It was sent home 

 in 1822, by Mr. George Don, from Sierra Leone. A figure 

 has been published in the Botanical Register, tab. 753. It 

 requires to be kept in the stove, where it ripens seed in plenty. 



ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS. 



The Society has, by singular exertion, succeeded, in two 

 years, in forming such a collection of this tribe of curious 

 plants, as was never seen in Europe before. It consists at pre- 

 sent of about one hundred and eighty species of tropical kinds. 



Of the few which have flowered during the time upon 

 which I am now reporting, the greater number are plants 

 of interest. 



XXXI. Catasetum cristatum. 

 This curious plant was brought to the Society in His 

 Majesty's ship Pheasant, from Bahia de St. Salvador, in 1 82.;. 



