PAXTOX'S FLOWER GARDEX. 



Dr. Lindley lays stress upon, available ; viz. that on the labellum of C. aurea there are five principal ridges, and three 

 minor ones on each side, all downy and diverging, 'while in 0. bractescens there are five equal ridges all smooth and 

 parallel. In our drawing of C. bractescens, now before us, the five ridges are all downy in their lower half, while in 

 C. aurea, both a and £, the three lesser lateral ridges appear rather a kind of venation, such as is seen in the middle lobe 

 also. In C. bractescens, the bracteas are larger and very concave, and the flowers are larger, and the lateral lobes of the 

 labellum are larger than in C. aurea. The flowers are very fragrant.' " 



Upon again referring to the materials in our possession for illustrating the differences in the three species 

 of Chysis, we find little to alter in what was 

 formerly said about them. The principal ridges at 

 the base of the lip of Ch. bractescens are, no doubt, 

 downy half way up, as Sir W. Hooker states, and 

 they vary in number fn.m 5 to 7 ; but they are much 

 blunter than in Ch. aur< a, and the lip is wholly desti- 

 tute, in our specimens, of the lateral hairy veins 

 peculiar to Ch. aurea. The most material difference 

 between these species is, however, the great inflated 

 bracts of Ch. bractescens, to which there is no approach 

 in Ch. aurea. As to Ch. Icevis it has the bracts of 

 the latter, from which it is distinguished by a shorter 

 middle lobe of the lip and smooth short ridges, the 

 two lateral of which are rudimentary. 



Berbeuis pallida. Bentham. A 

 beautiful evergreen greenhouse bush, from 

 Mexico. Flowers yellow. Berries black. 

 Flowers in the early spring ; fruits in autumn 

 and winter. (Fig. 149.) 



We learn from the Botanical Register that in its 

 native country this forms an evergreen shrub from five 

 to six feet high, and is found but sparingly, near 



