NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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GUSTAVIA GRACILLIMA. 
4pP 
This magnificent plant was discovered in the United States of Colombia by M. Hoezl. The 
flowers grow from the axils of the leaves in the young plants, and from the older leafless parts of 
the trunk in older ones ; they are solitary or in pairs, four inches in diameter, of a charming rose 
colour, consisting of eight obovate oblong petals, with a yellow incurved staminal tube bearing 
numerous densely packed purple anthers, in a ring of an inch or more across. It was figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, tab. 6151. 1 guinea. 
