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by a gentleman of the name of M‘Ewan. It is of dwarf bushy 
habit, a very fine bloomer, and makes a conspicuous object in the 
flower-border. It is several shades paler than P. gentianoides , 
the flowers are larger, the tube stouter and more swollen, the 
limb more equally divided and less spreading, and the blossoms 
are borne in dense terminal clusters. The stock is in the pos¬ 
session of Messrs. Young, Nurserymen, of Epsom, in whose 
nursery it flowered profusely last September. It propagates 
freely by cuttings, and requires only the management usually 
adopted with the well-known P. gentianoides. — Pax. Mag. Bot. 
OrchidACE iE. —Gynandria Monandria. 
Bendrobium Kuhlii (Lindley). This handsome plant is not 
unworthy to be placed by the side of its near ally, the beautiful 
D. secundum , from which it differs in having larger flowers, in 
short, lateral, few-flowered, horizontal racemes. They are of a 
bright rose colour, and retain their freshness longer than is usual 
in this genus. For its introduction we are again indebted to the 
enterprise and good management of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
Exeter, to whom it was sent from Java by Mr. Thomas Lobb.— 
Bot. Reg. 47-47- 
Epidendrum pyriformi (Lindley). This very pretty little 
species was imported from Cuba by Messrs. Loddiges, with 
whom it flowered in January last. The leaves are unusually 
thick and fleshy, about four inches long, on little pseudo-bulbs, 
which look like inverted pears. Notwithstanding its diminutive 
stature, the flowers are fully 2| inches in diameter, with reddish- 
yellow sepals and petals, and a pale straw-coloured lip veined 
with crimson.— Bot. Reg. 50-47- 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Sinuate. Sinuose. Wavy; bending irregularly in and out. 
Sinus. The hollow formed by the receding margin of a lobed 
leaf or other body. 
Soboliferous. Increasing by means of young plants which 
proceed from the root; differing from suckers in having a 
main radicle, furnished with fibres. 
