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fusco glaberrimo; ramis oppositis, cylindricis articulatis; foliis petiolatis, 
oppositis, ovato-oblongis acuminatis, undulatis, utrinque glaberrimis ; 
nervis alternis ; stipulis basiliaribus, acutis, exiguis, basi junctis ; flori- 
bus terminalibus cymosis, albis, ante antbesin rubellis, bracteis sub 
calyce et cymse ramis carnosissimis. 
A little inconspicuous bush of the Cinchonaceous order, 
and allied to Gardenia. It exists in the Botanic Garden at 
Brussels, where its origin has been lost. It seems of no 
other than Botanical interest. 
48. AERIDES virens. 
A. virens ; foliis latis oblique retusis, racemis pendulis multifloris, sepalis pe- 
talisque obovatis obtusis, labelli cornu acuminato ascendente lobis late- 
ralibus apice denticulatis intermedio lanceolato medio canaliculato versus 
apicem denticulato. 
A very fine plant from Java, with sweet-scented flowers 
as large as those of A. odoratum, white, stained and spotted 
with deep lilac. Its leaves are remarkable for their bright 
green colour. Messrs. Loddiges have recently flowered it. 
Aerides odoratum, quinquevulnera, crispum, affine and virens, 
would form such a cluster of beautiful flowers, as it would 
be very difficult to match if all the vegetable kingdom were 
ransacked. 
49. OXYLOBIUM obovatum. 
Bentham in Bindley’ s Sketch of Swan River , p. xii. 
This pretty greenhouse shrub has been lately flowered by 
Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton. It has the habit of Pul- 
tenrna daphnoides, but is a stiffer and broader leaved plant. 
Its flowers are in axillary and terminal sessile clusters, and 
of a bright orange yellow, stained on the keel with crimson. 
50. BOSSIiEA paucifolia. 
Bentham mss. 
This, like the last, has been flowered by Messrs. Lowe 
and Co., from the same country. As it was exhibited the 
other day before the Horticultural Society, it was a pretty 
leafy rather spiny bush, with gay yellow and crimson bios- 
