iielled; front one rather narrower, boat-shaped: inner
ones ligulate, blunt. Lahellum unguiculate, pointingddin
aitoeTd,' ib earded mside with a dense tuft of pedii clealmlatineda
yellow glands. Column free, bent like a bow, narrow
and naked at the base, near the point winged, and
spreading. .jiwZ/ier attached to the point of the column
T lX d k p 1 2, each
On! :! • ^""fylar. Germen glossy, furrowed.
M. 1 ‘l^awing of this handsome plant, was taken in
May last at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, who received
several plants of it last autumn from North America
some ot which flowered very strong this spring; they
Avere planted in small pots of sandy peat, but we
believe they Avould groAv much more freely if planted
out in a border of peat earth, in a situation where
they would not be likely to rot by too much moisture
n Avinter. Mr. Nuttall mentions a plant groAving in
"''PP'*"''® to be a second species of
n r n f w not as yet been
f am ilf or I this interesting
iamily aie noAv introduced to our collections, and the
cultnation of them is much better understood than
t has hitherto been; the tropical species are now
becoming very abundant and interesting in several
c o l l e c t io n s , and a r e g r o w n Avith a s l i t t l e t r o u b le , a s
any Cominon plants. In the new edition of our
Botanical Cultivator, now in the press, a full account
of their treatment will be given. nui account
with ahood. i Tbe H o ^ o d ^ S .d tV f b ^ t m’e f r i b l l ^ o £ m a T r
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