By Mr. John Lindley. 



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lilac. All the segments of the flower are parallel with each other 

 and connivent, while the lip of the labellum, which is closely 

 supported beneath by the two lower segments, and is large and 

 hanging down, gives the flower the appearance of some kind 

 of Utricularia. The plant is undoubtedly referable to M. 

 Kunth's genus Ionopsis, but seems different from the Iantha 

 pallidiflora, figured by Dr. Hooker, in Exotic Flora, tab. 113. 

 A figure taken from the plant in the Garden of the Society, 

 may be found in Collectanea Botanica, tab. 39. 



BULBOUS PLANTS. 

 XXX. Conanthera campanulata. 



Conanthera bifolia, Sims; not of Flora Peruviana. 



Roots of this extremely rare plant were received from 

 Mr. Place, as part of hisT'collection of Chilian plants, trans- 

 mitted to England, by Mr. John Miers. It is quite dif- 

 ferent from C. bifolia, with which it has been confounded 

 by Dr. Sims. It is a small bulbous-rooted plant, producing 

 about three linear-lanceolate leaves, which spread nearly flat 

 upon the ground. The flowers appear in an umbel, seated 

 upon a nearly erect scape, and expand two or three at a time. 

 They are bright blue, and somewhat flatly campanulate ; 

 their outer segments are concave, and rounded, their inner 

 flatter, smaller, and fringed as in Thysanotus, but never either 

 acute, reflexed, or spotted. A figure of the true Conanthera 

 bifolia may be found in the Botanical Cabinet, tab. 904 ; and of 

 C. campanulata, in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2496, under 

 the erroneous name of C. bifolia. It is a very delicate green- 

 house plant, which has not yet produced either seeds or 



