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we find it always shown, that the elevations and processes of the surface of the lip are of the ! 
utmost consequence in considering the limits of species. It was received by Messrs. Loddiges 
from Mr. Cuming, who found it at Sincapore.” Bot. Reg. 24. 
Drymo'nia puncta'ta. “ Introduced by the Horticultural Society, from Guatemala, through 
the medium of their collector, Mr. Hartweg. It is cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens of 
Kew, to great advantage, in a wire basket, with pieces of wood and turf, and suspended from a 
beam in a moist stove. In such a situation it thrives admirably, and bears its delicate yellowish, 
or almost primrose-coloured flowers, dotted with purple, copiously. As a species it is very dif- 
ferent from the D. serrulata of Martius, (D. bicolor of Lindley,) in the shape and marking of the 
flower, in the short peduncle, and especially in the narrow, not cordate, base of the sepals.” It 
is a plant of a somewhat herbaceous character, having fleshy stems and leaves, and singularly 
fringed and spotted flowers. Bot. Mag. 4089. 
Eria bracte'scens. w Among the extensive genus Eria we find a few species particularly 
distinguished by their short fleshy stems, and the membranous-coloured bracts which accompany 
their hairless flowers. Of these the best known are the present species, longilabris, obesa , and a 
Philippine plant that may be called ovata. They are natives of the hotter parts of India, and are 
so much alike that an incautious observer might almost regard them as varieties. They are, 
however, most truly distinct.” E. bractescens was found at Sincapore by Mr. Cuming, and by 
Mr. Griffith in Burma, near Moulmain, and is a very interesting little species when closely 
examined, but the flowers are small and not very showy. “ It has a fleshy oblong stem, which 
bears at the summit two or three leaves, from one and a half to two inches broad, and gradually 
tapering to the base. Its flowers are in the Sincapore plant greenish white, with a lip crimson, 
except at the end ; in the Burma plant they are more straw-coloured than green. The lip is 
three-lobed, has an abruptly truncated extremity, and is marked with three elevated ridges, of 
which the two side ones are very short, while the middle one reaches to the end of the lip.” Bot. 
Reg. 29. 
Greeno'via au'rea. “ The genus Greenovia was founded in the Phytographia canarienm 
upon the present species of Houseleek, discovered originally in the Canary Islands, by Christian 
Smith. The name was given in honour of George Bellas Greenough, Esq., the celebrated 
geologist and enlightened patron and promoter of useful knowledge.” u The true G. aurea 
inhabits the woody region on the rocks called Los Organos, in the valley of Orotava, above Aqua 
Mansa, in Teneriffe, and at Mount Saucillo, in the Grand Canary, where it was found by Des- 
preaux. The beautiful zone of Laurels , on the outskirts of which it is found, drips with continual 
moisture from the clouds floating on the surface of the trade-winds, and which are arrested iD 
their progress southwards by the lofty mass of the island.” The habit of the species greatly 
resembles that of some of the European Houseleeks. The flower-stem grows a foot or eighteen 
inches high, and is clothed with leaves, gradually becoming smaller towards the top, and sur- 
mounted by a cluster of starry yellow blossoms. Bot. Mag. 4087. 
Hibiscus Cameroni-fulgens. “A specimen of this plant was sent us in August, 1843, by Messrs 
Rollisson, of Tooting, who state that it is a hybrid, between II. Cameroni and II. fulgens. II 
Cameroni is a Madagascar shrub, with heart-shaped five.lobed leaves, buff flowers, with five deep 
crimson spots in the eye, and a very small involucre ; II. fulgens is a garden name for a variety 
of H. Rosa Sinensis. The produce of these two is the very handsome variety now figured, which 
as might have been anticipated, proves worthy of so beautiful a parentage. We presume it to be 
a stove shrub.” (There is a good prospect of realizing pleasing results from crossing H. Cameron 
with other species, as it is one that produces seeds freely, and is very distinct in character.] 
Bot. Reg. 28. 
Lindle'ya mespiloi'des. “This plant is an evergreen tree of small size, looking very mucl 
like Mespilus grandiflorus, but with flowers as sweet-scented as the Hawthorn bloom.” Th< 
genus Lindley a and its allies form a peculiar group of Rosacece, “ remarkable for their capsulai 
fruit and winged seeds : the latter a circumstance not hitherto observed in other plants of the ordei 
in our gardens. L. Mespiloides seems likely to prove about as hardy as an Escallonia, but no 
more so. Its fine evergreen foliage, and large sweet (white) flowers, render it very desirabk 
that it should be able to bear our climate.” It remains in flower about a month or six weeks 
The figure was taken in the Horticultural Society’s Garden in July 1843. Mr. Hartweg found i 
