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becoming narrow and extending downwards, like the other divisions, in the form of a narrow band. 
The sepals are of a yellowish white colour, the two inferior are joined together in one; about two inches 
long, and striated with greenish nerves. The petals (including the labellum) extend to at least a 
foot in length: they are pale, 
striated in face of then inter¬ 
nal base, having a spot on the 
two posterior corners or horns 
of the depressed caruncle or 
protuberance which surmounts 
the gynostem or column. 
This noble plant is a native 
of New Grenada, where Mr. 
Linden discovered it in 1843, 
in the territory of Chiguara, 
in the small woods of the Sa¬ 
vannah, which rise on the 
Cordilleras to an altitude of 
1650 metres, or fully 550 feet, 
and overlooking the vast forests 
of Maracavbo. It has been 
described by Dr. Lindley from 
a dried specimen; and has re¬ 
cently flowered for the first 
time in Europe, in the rich col¬ 
lection of M. Pescatore, at his 
Chateau, Celle, near St. Cloud. 
It is worth while to con¬ 
sider for a moment one of the 
most curious examples of that 
law which is justly called the 
law of balance in the organs 
(of plants). According to a 
fundamental ride of symmetry 
in theu flowers, orchids should 
have a verticil of three sta- 
a 
mens, alternating with the in¬ 
terior parts of then perianth. 
Now, in consequence of a 
normal abortion with the gen¬ 
erality of these plants, the pos¬ 
terior stamen exists only hi 
a state of fertility; the two la- 
teral ones having disappeared, 
or being only present hi a 
state of sterile protuberance 
on the gynostem or columns. 
In the Cypripediums on the contrary (Cypripedium, Uropedium), the posterior anther is replaced by a 
fleshy caruncule, but to compensate for this, the two lateral anthers exist in a perfect state. If we add 
the one-stamened flower of an Orchid (Orchis), to the two-stamened flower of the Uropedium, we 
obtain the three-stamened flower of the ideal and symmetrical type of the Orchid family; and thus, 
in botanical arithmetic, as in ordinary calculations, two added to one make three. 
GAEDEN UTENSILS. 
[The annexed engraving represents some Belgian novelties of the class of garden utensils; and 
may perhaps be suggestive of some improvements in the mode of watering plants. The figures and 
descriptions are taken from La Belgique Llorticole]. 
At the Agricultural Institute of Hohenheim, a new method of watering plants and gardens was 
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