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whence the leaves have fallen. But the raceme of flowers is particularly prolific 
and extensive, while the individual blossoms arc expansive and pale green, with a 
very large lip, which is nearly white, striated with green, pouch-shaped, and 
having an undulating fimbriated margin. Bot. Mag. 
Cobcea macrostema. With much of the habit of the old C. scandens, this 
species has far inferior flowers, as green and greenish-yellow are their sole apparent 
colours. It has smooth, angular, climbing stems, alternate, pinnate, hairy foliage, 
the petioles of which terminate in profusely- branching tendrils. The peduncles 
are excessively long, curving downwards, and bearing a solitary flower, which is 
smaller than those of C. scandens, and has stamens that protrude considerably 
beyond. Mr. Skinner discovered it in Mexico, or some adjacent country, and 
transmitted seeds to Glasgow, plants from which bloomed in November 1839. It 
is supposed to be a half-hardy plant. Bot. Mag. 3780. 
Epidendrum Parkinsonianum. J. Parkinson, Esq., late II. B. M. Consul- 
General at Mexico, having enriched the collection at Woburn with this, among 
many other beautiful orchidaceous and cactaceous plants, it is very appropriately 
chosen as being, according to Sir W. J. Hooker, " the finest of the very fine genus 
Epidendrum" to commemorate the botanical zeal of that gentleman. It has 
elongated, roundish, branched stems, with leaves that differ in form, but are 
narrow, very thick, slightly grooved, and occasionally a little acuminate. The 
flowers spring from the base of the uppermost leaf in an erect spike. They are 
two or three in number, scentless, nearly four inches across, brownish-green, with 
a large, orange-coloured, deeply three-lobed lip, the lateral segments of which are 
broad and jagged, the central one larger and linear. Bot. Mag. 3778- 
Gelasine azi)rea. A singular little bulbous plant, essential to a complete 
collection, but not sufficiently showy for ordinary gardens. From seeds received 
by the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert from J. W. Booth, Esq., of Boston, and 
gathered in the Banda Oriental, as well as near Rio Grande, it was raised in the 
greenhouse of the former gentleman at Spofforth, and blossomed in the spring of 
1838. " Seedlings grow rapidly, and will probably flower at a year and a half 
old, and promise to be hardy with the protection of a few leaves, and to retain 
their foliage, in part at least, through the winter." The leaves are lanceolate, 
acute, and strongly nerved. The flowers are elevated on a long slender scape : 
they are bright blue, with a white streak, and spotted with black at the interior 
of the base. Bot. Mag. 3779. 
Impatiens MACRocniLA. One of the most beautiful of all the East Indian 
Balsams. It was introduced in 1839 by the Honourable Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, and seeds or plants presented to the Horticultural Society 
were cultivated, and produced flowers in their garden at Chiswick, throughout the 
whole of the autumn. It is a rapid-growing, erect annual, with smooth, pro- 
minently veined, ovate, serrated, and conspicuous foliage, and very showy pinkish- 
purple flowers, of which the large lip, hollowed at its base, and yellow, with 
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