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appear in clusters of four or six. These last are greenish white at the base ; which 
deepens into green towards the middle, and gives place to deep purple at the 
summit. It was received in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from Bombay, and 
flowers most copiously in September. Bot. Mag. 3740. 
THE GESNERIA TRIBE {Gesnermcece). 
Gesneria strIcta. Upright Gesneria. A pale crimson, bilabiate-flowered 
species, growing to the unusual height of five feet, with slender, erect stems, which 
are triflingly branched towards the extremities. Mr. Tweedie sent roots of it from 
Rio Grande in South Brazil, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in which establish- 
ment its blossoms were produced in July, 1835. "In habit, it resembles G. 
Sceptrum of Martius ; but the flowers are very different in shape ; the corolla 
having a remarkable curvature of the upper side, and, following its direction, the 
style is singularly geniculated at its base : the upper lip too is much longer : the 
style and anthers exserted." Bot. Mag. 3738. 
THE BORAGE TRIBE {Boraginacece). 
Cynoglossum cgelestinum. Blue and white Hound's-tongue. The chief 
character of this plant is sufficiently expressed by its name ; and the pleasing com- 
bination of azure and white in its flowers, from which that is derived, imparts to it 
a very lively aspect. With large, ovately-cordate foliage, its flower-stems rise to 
the height of from one and a half to two feet, bearing the blossoms in terminal 
racemes, which are generally bifid. Bombay, or some district in the north of 
India, appears to be its native country, and seeds obtained from the place just 
mentioned, produced plants which flowered in the Horticultural Society's Gardens, 
in August, 1838. Dr. Lindley recommends for it the same treatment as is prac- 
tised towards Brompton Stocks, sowing the seeds in June and July. Bot. Reg. 36. 
CLASS 11.— PLANTS WITH ONE COTYLEDON (MONOCOTYLEDONEiE). 
THE ORCHIS TRIBE {Orchidacece). 
Bletia parkins6nii. Mr. Parkinson's Bletia. This pretty plant is more 
unique than ornamental, as the scape is extremely long and slender, and the flowers 
smaller than those of any other species. Mr. Parkinson, H. B. M. Consul General at 
Mexico, forwarded bulbs from that country to His Grace the Duke of Bedford, 
and it bloomed at Woburn Abbey, in January, 1839. No leaves are represented, 
nor is it said to bear any. The flowers are rose-coloured, with a deep, rich red 
band round the edge of the labellum, and a fine purple anther-case. The bulbs are 
terrestrial and nearly round; its nearest affinity is stated to be B. reflexus. 
Bot. Mag. 3736. 
Dendrobium jenkinsii. Captain Jenkins's Dendrobium. One of the smallest 
of the tribe, but, at the same time, having large and very showy yellow flowers. * 
