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5. L. criniki. Lindley. Lip narrowly oblong, slightly speckled; the lateral lobes linear, blunt, nearly as long as 

 the. equally narrow hairy oval central one ; appendix inconspicuous, terminating a narrow shaggy elevation. Column 

 long, slightly hairy. Petals very hairy. Mexico. Petals yellow, very acute, much smaller than the greenish sepals. 



6. L. aromatim. Lindley (alias Masillaria aromatica, Hooker). Lip oblong, narrowed to the base, spotless, hairy 

 inside ; the lateral lobes ovate, slightly curved, obtuse ; the central unguiculate, dilated at the end ; appendix very large, 

 two-lobed, concave. Column long, narrow, hairy. Petals naked. Mexico (?). Peru. 



OcBNA ATItO-PUEPUilEA. I)e Cni- 



dolle {a lias Diporidium atro-pn rpureum , 

 Wendl.j alias Oelma ai-borea, BarcJiell; 

 alias O. serrulata, Hochsietter ; alias 

 O. Natalitia, Meisner ; alias O. Dela- 

 goensis, Ecldon). A greenhouse shrub, 

 of some beauty, from Southern Africa. 

 Belongs to the Ochnads. It has pro- 

 duced its handsome yellow flowers in 

 the Royal Garden, Kew. Said to have 

 been introduced in 1823. (Fig- SI.) 



A native of South Africa, east of the Cape, as 

 far as Delagoa Bay, varying in size, in the soli- 

 tary or racemose flowers and in the size and 

 notches of the leaves, which are sometimes 

 sharply serrated, sometimes nearly entire. It 

 derives its name from the dried state of the plant, 

 when the large persistent calyxes become purple- 

 brown, especially when in fruit. In the living 

 plant, the bright yellow flowers with pale yellow- 

 green calyx enliven the greenhouse in the month 

 of March. 



The history of its having at last flowered, after 

 refusing to do so for twenty-seven years, is thus 

 given by Mr. Smith: — "Thinking it would be 

 benefited by a greater warmth during winter, 

 and having accommodation in the Palm-house, 

 it was placed there last Autumn. The result was, 

 that in April we were agreeably surprised to see 

 it profusely covered with its pretty, sweet-scented 

 flowers. Several other plants have flowered 

 similarly for the first time on being placed in 

 a greater degree of heat, which shows that with 

 our long-continued low temperature in winter and 

 spring, and deficiency of bright sunshine in 

 summer (as compared with the Cape), our usual 

 greenhouse climate is not adapted for the perfect 

 development of this and other slow-growing Cape and Kew Holland plants." — Botanical Magazine, t. 4519. 



Moussonia elegans. Decaisue. A hothouse Ge.uierad, with orange and yellow flowers, 

 from Guatemala. Introduced by M. Van lloutte. (Fig. 85.) 



Stems and leaves covered with soft hairs. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate, crenel-toothed. Umbels three or four-flowered 

 Corolia scarlet with a yellow limb, spotted in lines with purple. Being a native of the mountains of Guatemala, it will 

 flower in the open ground (in Belgium) in summer. 



" The genus Moussonia was established in 1848 by M. Hegel upon the Gesnera elongata of Graham, a plant evidently 

 allied to, although quite distinct from the species here described, as well as from the Peruvian species described by Kunth, 

 under the name of Gesneria syhatica in Humboldt and Bonpland's Nova gen. et sp. Amer. One of us (M. J. Decaisne) 

 having carefully studied the whole family of Gesneracece, the results of which examination have been partially made public 



