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small degree of public attention. It seems to have a very exten¬ 
sive range in the East Indies, growing throughout Bengal, in 
Amboyna, Ceylon, Mergui, Chittagong, Sylhet, on the Madras 
Peninsula, and Dr. Wright adds, it is widely diffused in alpine 
regions. The flowers are solitary, borne on axillary peduncles ; 
the calyx is two-lipped, arched or decurved, with three wings 
which are decurved on the petiole ; the corolla large, more than 
twice as long as the calyx; the tube dark purple, between cam- 
panulate and infundibuliform; with a spreading, nearly equal, 
four-lobed limb, of a delicate purple-blue, pale, with a blotch on 
three of the lobes.— Bot. Mag . 4249. 
Ge s n e ii i a c e je . —Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Alloplectus repens. A pretty Gesneriaceous plant, probably 
scandent upon the trunks of trees, and rooting among the dead 
bark and moss. It is a stove plant, native of the damp woods in 
the ascent of the Sierra Nivada, St. Martha, and was thence sent 
to the Royal Gardens of Kew, by our collector, Mr. Purdie. Its 
flowers are bright yellow, produced in February.— Bot.Mag. 4250. 
ORCHiDACEiE. —Gynandria Monandria. 
Anguloa Ruckeri. This charming plant makes the third spe¬ 
cies now in our gardens of a genus which, in the spring of 1844, 
was a botanical puzzle. Such is the progress of scientific dis¬ 
covery, when promoted by horticultural enterprise. A. Ruckeri 
is immediately recognized by its flowers having deep crimson 
spots on a yellow ground, and a deep crimson lip. The form of 
the latter approaches that of A. Clowesii; but it is less hairy, 
and the lateral lobes are blunt as well as shorter. All the 
species have been found by the fortunate exertions of Mr. Linden. 
Bot. Reg. 41-46. 
Cattleya Lemoniana. To us this appears quite a new and 
distinct species, remarkable for its short pseudo-bulbs, and long 
convolute lip, with a convex pallid limb, deeply broken up into 
a few revolute folds at the edge. Mr. Booth, however, regards it 
as a variety of C. labiata, from which it differs in its short pseudo¬ 
bulbs, apparent want of spathe, and contracted lip, wholly desti¬ 
tute of the rich frill of plaits by which that species is so strik¬ 
ingly distinguished. The specimen from which the accompany¬ 
ing figure and description were taken was imported from the 
