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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
CLASS IL— PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONEtE). 
(ORCHIDE^). 
Plemothallis saurocephala. Lizard-headed Plemothallis. This is a 
curious but by no means a handsome species ; the leaves are fleshy, of an ovate 
oblong- figure ; the flower spike springs from a kind of spathe in their axil, formed 
by the leaf and stem ; sometimes two, and sometimes more are produced, upon 
these the little variegated flowers are seated. It flowers in September. JBot. 
Beg, 1968. 
BoLBOPHYLLUM SALTATORiUM. Dancing Bolbophyllum. This is a most 
interesting plant, resembling B. harbigerum ; and, like that species, it was imported 
from Sierra Leone, by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collection the present species 
flowered in December last. Bot. Reg. 1970. 
EuLOPHiA MACRASTACHYA. Long-spiked Eulophia. A handsome species 
of this extensive genus, inhabiting shady woods in Ceylon. It is one of the easiest 
of orchideous plants to cultivate, and produces its graceful racemes of green and 
yellow flowers abundantly towards the latter end of the year. They go on growing 
and producing fresh flowers till Christmas. The stems are in the form of long 
irregular erect cones, and when old are covered by the withered or ragged remains 
of the leaves ; they are analogous to the pseudo-bulbs of other orchideae, and to 
those horizontal tuberous rhizomata, which in some species of this genus yield a 
kind of salep. BoU Beg. 1972. 
Zygopetalum COCHLEARE. Shell-lipped Zygopetalum. This is a very dis- 
tinct and handsome species of Zygopetalum. Pseudo-bulbs none ; the leaves are 
from eight inches to a foot long ; from the axil of one of the outer leaves arises 
the scape, scarcely of the length of one's finger, erect, having two membranous 
sheathing bracteas on the top at the base of the germen. Sepals and petals in our 
series, oblong, pale, greenish-white, spreading, combined at the base : the petals 
rather smaller than the sepals. Lip very large, nearly square, set on by a small 
short claw, very broad and cordate at the base, where it is ventricose, the sides 
involute and crisped, the apex reflexed, two lobed : at the base within is a large, 
lunate, fleshy, depressed crest, lobed and crenated, marked with purple lines, as is 
the lower half of the lip itself ; but these lines soon combine, and form a large pur- 
ple blotch in the upper half of the lip. Column short, semiterete, with two small 
wings above, with the front delicately streaked with red. Bot. Mag. 3585. 
THE lily tribe (ASPHODELE^). 
Calliprora lutea. Yellow Calliprora. An exceedingly pretty bulbous 
plant with yellow flowers. It is considered hardy by Dr. Lindley, but in Scotland 
Sir W. J. Hooker states it to be necessary to keep it in a pot in a frame, where it 
expands its pretty flowers in July. Bot. Mag. 3588. 
