GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Anthurium trifidum. There appears to be some uncertainty as to the origin of this 

 plant, which has been said to corne from the Indian Archipelago, as also from tropical 

 America. But under any consideration it is a stove species, and a desirable plant. 



Leaves deeply trifid, stem short, concealed by withered scales ; petioles elongate, slender, nearly terete, very 

 faintly flattened upon the inner face, of warm reddish-brown colour, ten to eighteen inches in length ; leaf -blade 

 ten to fifteen inches long, broadly deeply trifid, base broadly rounded, subtrimcate, or with a broadly cuneate 

 exit into the geniculus, which is half to three-quarters of an inch long ; median lobe oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 from the base of the leaf to its apex ten to sixteen inches, three and a half to four and a half inches broad ; 

 lateral lobes obliquely oblong-ovate, obtuse, somewhat falciform, shorter than the median lobe, from the geniculus 

 to their apex eight or ten inches, all deep shining green above, paler beneath, three principal nerves divergent 

 from the apex of the petiole, prominent beneath ; principal lateral veins from median nerve are about nine to 

 twelve on each side ; peduncle slender, erect, rather shorter than the petioles, red or reddish-brown in colour, as 

 is the more or less spreading, or reflexed, oblong, lanceolate, acuminate spathe, which is slightly shorter than the 

 slender, terete, shortly stipitate spadix. Perianth segments four, broadly roundate, or obovate-quadrate, concave, 

 thickened above, overarching the four stamens ; filaments much flattened, obovate ; stigma obtusely four-angled. — 

 Botanical Magazine, 6339. 



Warrea discolor. Lindley. A one-flowered Orchid from Costa Rica : sepals and 

 petals pale lemon-colour, tinged with purple; lip dull purple. Introduced by Mr. 

 Warezewitz. (Fig. 47, the lip magnified.) 



A very distinct species. The sepals, which are one and a quarter inches long, are straw-coloured, the lower 

 straight, concave, and deflexed, the upper erect, rolled back at the point, pressed close to the petals, and with them 

 forming an arch over the column and lip. The petals are straw-coloured at the 

 base, dull purple at the upper part. The lip has a nearly circular outline, but 

 is so concave as not to present that form until flattened ; it is slightly three- 

 lobed, of a deep, dull, velvety purple colotir, with, at the base, a roundish 

 oblong yellow appendage, which adheres to the lip, and is divided at the edge 

 into strong diverging teeth, five of which terminate so many distinct ribs. The 

 column is yellow, shaggy in front, with an anther sloping forward, and a subu- 

 late rostel. The pollen masses are four, plano-convex, in pairs at the end of a 

 broad, flat, thin caudicle, furnished on either side with a lateral tooth. (A 

 singular monstrosity here occurred in the two posterior pollen masses, which 

 had grown together into one by a narrow neck.) A remarkable species, the 

 single flowers of which resemble a Lycaste, but their pollen-apparatus and lip- 

 appendage are exactly those of Warrea. Upon this point it may be useful to explain that in Lycaste the caudicle 

 is subulate, and the lip-appendage a truncate plate near the middle lobe of the pp, while in Warrea the caudicle is 

 broad and flat, and the lip-appendage ribbed, fringed, and stationed at the very base of the lip.— Journ. Hort. 

 Soc, vol. iv. 



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