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celatum or some such plant. The flowers are yellow spotted 
with brown, except the lip which is white stained with violet. 
We have received it from Mr. Rucker, who first flowered it, 
and from Broughton Hall. 
26. CYCNOCHES pentadactylon. 
C. pentadactylon ; racemo brevi stricto, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis reflexis 
supremo incurvo, labelli unguiculati margine revoluto dorso adnato hy- 
Pochilio cornu recto incurvo aucto, metachilio 4-lobo medio foveato la- 
ciniis 2 posticis obtusis carnosis incurvis anticis subulatis, epichilio lin- 
guiformi acuto lsevi. 
This singular species has in some respects so much the 
appearance of C. maculatum, that when I first received it 
from Mr. Veitch of Exeter, in March last, I hesitated whether 
to regard it as a variety or a distinct species. A plant, ob- 
tained from Brazil direct by Messrs. Loddiges (Cat. no. 890) 
has decided me in regarding it as the latter. It has a short 
raceme of much larger greenish yellow flowers with broad 
chocolate -brown blotches, and its lip is quite remarkable, 
having 5 finger-like lobes, and no more, instead of the lateral 
comb-like fringes of C. maculatum. It is a very curious thing. 
27. PITTOSPORUM bicolor. 
Hooker in Journ. of Botany , vol. l.p. 249. 
This small shrub requires the greenhouse, being a native 
of Van Diemen’s Land, whence its seeds were sent by Mr. 
James Backhouse. It has lately flowered in the collection of 
John Willmore, Esq. of Oldfield near Birmingham, and 
proves to be a plant of little beauty, with small dingy choco- 
late coloured flowers, and deep green leaves silvery underneath. 
28. BERBERI3 pallida. 
Hartweg in Bentham PL Hartweg. p. 34. No. 271. 
“ This beautiful addition to our collection of half-hardy 
evergreen shrubs was raised in the garden of Sir Charles 
Lemon, Bart. M.P. at Carclew in 1831, from seeds received 
fiom Mr. John Rule of the Real del Monte Mines, Mexico, 
and flowered for the first time in January 1843. It has been 
