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A Report on New and Rare Plants, fyc. 



XXVIII. Aeranthes grandiflora. Lindley. 

 This most singular plant was sent by Mr. Forbes in 1824, 

 from St. Mary's, Madagascar. It is a low parasitical plant, 

 without either stem or bulbs, but throwing out from the base of 

 its leaves a few slender roots, by which it adheres to the soil, 

 or surface of the material on which it grows. Its leaves are in 

 two ranks, four or six in number, glaucous blue, and waved at 

 the edge. The flower is large and nearly transparent, of a pale 

 greenish yellow colour. It appears at the end of a weak radical 

 scape, covered closely with hard, dry, striated sheaths, and 

 unless supported artificially, falls prostrate upon the earth. 

 The figure in the Botanical Register, tab. 817, represents 

 the flower as too green. It was made from the first that 

 appeared, but which did not entirely expand. Afterwards, 

 from the same scape, and nearly from the same spot, other 

 flowers were produced in succession — a singular circumstance, 

 which is common to many other plants of the same family, 

 from the same country. A delicate stove plant, flowering in 

 May. 



XXIX. Ionopsis utricularioides. Lindley. 



Dendrobium utricularioides Swartz. 

 Some delicate individuals of a parasitical stemless orchi- 

 deous plant, with purplish green leaves, sent from Trinidad 

 to the Society, by His Excellency Sir Ralph Woodford, in 

 1823, flowered among decayed earth in the month of April of 

 the last year. They proved to belong to the Dendrobium 

 utricularioides of Swartz, a species found by that Botanist 

 in the Island of Jamaica. The flowers are in a branched ter- 

 minal spike, and of a delicate white, tinged at the edges with 



