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 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 695

��Ophiopogon spicatus.

Liriope spicata, Loureiro cocJdn. 200 (monente D. Brown ab antopsid edocto exemplaris archetypi in Herb. Parisiano asservati).

In 0. spicato (monente D. Brown) semen (saepe 2 — 3), nudum baccatum de ovulo mow post factum conceptum auctu prcecociori ccetera illidente exque germinis vertice erumpente excretum s basi cum exuto g ermine cohcerens.

In 0. spicatus, Mr. Brown has found the fruit to be of the same kind he has ascribed to Peliosanthes Tela, in the twelfth volume of the ' Linnean Transactions y [vol. 1, p. 362].

Bot. Reg. 593 (1822).

M acradenia. Labellum sessile, cucullato-concavum in- divisum acuminatum. Corolla petala distincta patula. Columna libera, lobis apicis conniventibus. Masses pollinis 2, exsulcse. Broion MSS.

M acradenia lutescens, Broion MSS. Cor. sordide lutea, intiis purpureo-fusco marmorata. Labellum corolla brevius, ecalcaratum, album, intiis purpureo interrupt^ lineatum, obovatum, appendice lineari acuta reflexd. Columna longi- tudine fere labelli, semiteres, supra sensim latior lobis late- ralibus apicis in cucullum antheram amplexantem conniven- tibus. Anthera e basi paulb gibbosiore int usque biloculare producta in acumen lato-lineare concavum ipsa basi aliquo- ties longius processum subulatum stigmatis, glandulam, ejusque appendicem, involvens. Massse pollinis cuneiformes, modice compressa, post migrationem apicibus suis acutis affixa disco apicis dilatati appendicis elongated proscolla?. Brown MSS.

An undescribed species, now first introduced by Mr. Griffin, who received the plant, represented in the annexed plate, from Trinidad. It flowered last December in the hothouse at South Lambeth, and was communicated to Mr. Brown, who has made it the foundation of the present

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