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Report upon New or Rare Plants, §c. 



XXVI. Brassavola nodosa. 



B. foliis carnosis semi-cylindricis subulatis canaliculars, labello integerrimo. 



Among some curious plants sent in 1825 from Rio by Mr. 

 David Douglas, were received a patch or two of an epiphyte 

 with numerous fleshy, half-cylindrical, subulate, channelled 

 leaves of a dull green colour tinged with purple. These, after 

 some months vigorous growth, produced in October 1825, two 

 spikes of snow-white flowers, which from some unknown 

 cause did not expand, but which arrived at a state sufficiently 

 perfect to enable me to ascertain that the plants were referable 

 to the genus Brassavola of Brown, and to the Epidendrum 

 nodosum discovered by Jacquin in the Island of Baru, and 

 figured by him in his Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum 

 Historia, tab. 140. Jacquin states the flowers to diffuse a 

 most delicious fragrance during the night. Should be grown 

 in decayed wood, or bark, in which a little moss may be 

 mixed. 



XXVII. Dendrobium crumenatum. Szeartz. 



Onychium crumenatum. Blume. 

 D. caule ramoso terete folioso basi bulboso, foliis ovato-Janceolatis, suica 

 terminali, floribus distantibus geminatis odoratis glabris, sepalis aequalibus ovatis 

 acutis calcaris longitudine, labello rhombeo-ovato integerrimo. 



Two varieties of an Air-plant of Sumatra, were sent to the 

 Society by the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1823 ; 

 one of which produced its flowers in the stove in August, 

 1825. They do not appear to be distinct from each other, but 

 may perhaps constitute both the D. crumenatum and spatu- 

 latum, taken up by Linnjeus from Rumphius. Their blos- 

 soms are very fragrant, but quickly perishable ; their colour a 



