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Drimiopsis mactjlata. A greenhouse bulbous plant,, of little beauty, from the Cape of 



Good Hope. Flowers green and white. Be- 

 longs to Lily worts. (Fig. 163.) 



Drimiopsis. Perianth'mm herbaceum campanulatum, 

 subsequale. Stamina aequalia, epipetala. Ovarium in 

 stylum attenuatum ; ovula gemina, collateralia -Herbse 

 bulbosce, foliis succuleniis, scapo racemoso, coma destituto. 



Vanda Sanderiana. This plant as de- 

 scribed, from dried specimens of the flowers, 

 by Professor Reichenbach, in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle, p. 583 of volume xvii., seems to 

 be a very fine thing, with flowers of extra- 

 ordinary size, individually five inches in 

 diameter. A still further merit which it 

 possesses is that the segments, instead of being 

 twisted as in the different forms of V. suavis, 

 are quite flat, presenting their whole inner sur- 

 face to view. The colour of the odd petals and 

 sepals is described as mauve with basilar purple 

 stripes; the lateral sepals yellow, washed with 

 brown and with broad purple veins ; the borders 

 mauve, lip dark brown, green at the sides. 

 Column golden yellow. Leaves broader than 

 those of Saccolabium violaceum. From the 

 dried specimens it seems to be a most profuse bloomer, and will 

 no doubt prove a very fine thing. 



Globba ateo-sanguinea. In this Globba we have a plant 

 bearing the general appearance of a miniature Canna, in the erect 

 character of the stems, as well as in the form and arrangement 

 of the leaves, with the erect head of flowers borne similarly on 

 the extremities of the reed-like stems. The flowers have a pretty 

 appearance, the yellow corolla setting off the red bracts. Coming 

 as it does from Borneo, it will require stove-heat to grow it, 

 with the conditions generally found to answer for plants that hail 

 from this part of the world. 



Stem slender, strict, erect, two to three feet high. Leaves three to four inches 

 long, sessile on the sheath, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, dark green 

 above with yellowish margins, pale beneath and there loosely pubescent; sheath red- 

 brown, pubescent, closely clasping the stem throughout its length. Spike strict, 

 erect, sparingly shortly branched, pubescent; lower flowerless bracts distant, 

 spreading, or erect, one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, oblongdanceolate, 

 convolute, red-brown ; upper or flowering bracts crowded, ovate, acute, spreading 

 and recurved, bright red, as are the rachis and branches. Flowers one and a half 

 inches long, glabrous. Ovary oblong and calyx red, the latter tubular cleft two- 

 thirds down into three narrow acuminate segments. Corolla pale yellow ; tube 

 very slender, three times as long as the calyx, limb short ; outer segments ovate, 

 acute, not one-fourth the length of the tube ; inner smaller. Lip oblong, base 

 two lobe d, lobes short rounded. Filaments as long as the corolla-tube ; anther- 

 wings divided two-thirds way down into triangular acute lobes. — BUankal Magazine, 6626. 



