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2771. DIADELPHIA, DECANDRIA. LEGUMINOSJS. 
LAB'LAB PURPU'REUS. | Plant, i| fee* ll stove twiner, tlie East Indies, 1790, 
PURPLE la blab. II piow’er, IJ inch ll flowers in Autumn, purple and rose. 
Lablab, the Arabic name of the Convolvulus. This species — formerly united 
with Dolichos, is a desirable stove climber, taking to itself but little space, and pro- 
ducing a long succession of purple flowers of neat appearance. bot. reg. 830. 
2772. GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. ORCHID ACE®. 
LYCAS'TE SKIN'NERI. II Scape, 1 foot || Stove herbaceous peren., Guatemala, 
MR. skinner’s lycaste. || Flower, '! inch 1841, flowers in Winter, white & rose. 
Lycaste, see No. 2100. A splendid flower, remarkable for its large size and 
chaste colouring — white, spotted, and suffused with crimson ; remaining a long 
time in great beauty. Its scape is single -flowered, as here shown, bot. mag. 4445 . 
2773. pentandria, monogynia. solanace®. 
NICOTIA NA NANA. IIl 10 ”*’ S ["ch li annual, sent from North Ame- 
rocky mountain tobacco. 1 Flower, 44 inch I rica, in 1823, flowers in June, white. 
Named after Jean Nicot, envoy from the court of France to Portugal. A 
species of Tobacco chiefly remarkable for its very dwarf habit ; it is said, however, 
that the N. American Indians prepare of it their finest Tobacco. bot. reg. ssa. 
2774. GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. ORCHIDACE®. 
ODONTOGLOS'SUM corda'tum.II Plant, 1 font II stove herb, perennial, Mexico, 1837, 
I Leaf 4 inch I r 
cordate-lipped ODONTOGLOSSUM . || Slower, 2 inch II flowers in June, green-yel. & brown. 
Odontoglossum, see No. 2034. Some Orchids are admired for one quality ; 
others, perhaps, for its opposite ; all, more or less, excite an interest, from their 
boundless diversity, mimicing, as they do, almost every other flower, flo. cab ioo. 
2773. CRYPTOGAMIA, MUSCI. BRYACE®. 
ORTHO TRICUM cupuLa'tum. || stem, % inch | 1, plant, $ the size of nature. 2, leaf; 
SINGLE-FRINGED BRISTLE-MOSS. II Seta, short || 3 ? capsule; 4, lid; 5, hood; mag. 
Orthotricum, see No. 2611. This brownish green moss will be frequently 
found in spring, on trees, walls, stones, and sometimes growing to sticks on dry 
hedge banks. It forms dense tufts, interesting when tipt with its capsules. 
2776. DECANDRIA, PENTAGYNIA. OXALIDACE®. 
OX A LIS IDA RV ELLI A’N A. |i Plant, S inch ij Greenhouse herb. peren., cultivated 
DR. DARWELL’s oxalis. || Flower, 1J inch 1 in 1839, flowers in May, white&crim. 
Oxalis, see No. 2118. “ A delicate plant, shy in producing flowers, and still 
more shy in expanding them than the other species of this genus. It resembles 
versicolor, but differs in its broader leaflets and creeping roots.” flo. cab 93. 
2777. GYNANDRIA, MONANDRIA. ORCHIDACE®. 
PESOME'RIA TETRAGO N A Plant, 1 font^ ii Stove herb, peren., Isle of Bourbon, 
SQUARE-STALKED pesomeria. II Flon’er, 24 Inch ii in 1837, flowers in Spring, red-brown. 
Pesomeria, from pepto, to fall off ; and meros, a part; in allusion to one part 
of the flower falling before the other. This singularity gives the idea of the plant 
producing two distinct forms of flower. bot. mag. 4442 . 
2778. DIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. ACANTHACE®. 
THYRSACAN’THUS BRACTF.OLA’-|i Plant, 24 feet ,| Stove shrub, brought from the West 
TUS. BRACTEOLATED THYBSACAN.il FluVer, lj iIhIi Indies, 1845, flowers in June, scarlet. 
Thyrsacanthus, see No 2602. This plant possesses no peculiar novelty of cha- 
racter ; and its slender, rather bare, branches produce too naked an effect to be 
called handsome. Raised from exotic seeds in the Royal Gardens, bot.mao.444i. 
