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a span in height, angular, smooth, and stained with purple. 

 Leaflets on the lower leaves five, small, lanceolate, smooth, 

 with a hairy petiole ; the exterior ones smaller, with dilated 

 partial footstalks ; on the upper leaves, the leaflets are only 

 three, obtuse, the middle one being the largest. Racemes 

 terminal, simple. Flowers small. Petals white, with thin 

 purplish claws, which are barely longer than the discus. 

 Stamens unequal, the upper one very long, reflexed, the lowest 

 one very short. Ovarium nearly four-cornered, roughish. 



This species differs from Gynandropsis pentaphylla, in its 

 small stature, and in having its leaves always entire, never 

 serrulated. From G. palmipes it is distinguished by the 

 upper leaves being ternate, and by the absence of a membrane 

 connecting the foot-stalks of the leaflets. It may be grown 

 in any light sandy soil. 



XXII. Aspidistra punctata. LiniUy. 

 A foliis longe petiolatis, perianthio octofido. Bot. Register, fol. 977« 



A new species, brought to the Society from China in 1824, 

 by Mr. John Damper Parks. It flowered in a bark-bed in 

 February and March, 1826. From the species previously 

 known it diners in its paler and much larger flowers, which 

 are dotted over with livid purple, and divided into eight 

 segments. The leaves are also elevated higher above the 

 earth than those of Aspidistra lurida. 



An obscure but curious stove-plant growing freely in peat 

 and loam, and propagated by division of the roots. A figure 

 and description have been published in the Botanical Register, 

 fol. 977, from the plants cultivated in the Garden at Chiswick. 



