devoted to the subject, which will appear in the spring 
of the following year, with illustrations drawn from the 
admirable sketches of Mr. Bauer. 
The subject of the accompanying plate was raised in 
the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from roots trans- 
mitted from Mexico by Mr. John Brown. It grows in the 
greenhouse, in a pot, coming up every year in the spring, 
flowering for five or six weeks, and then dying down. The 
inflorescence is remarkable, when it first appears, for its 
very depressed state. The axis afterwards elongates; and 
what was at first an umbel, becomes a corymbose raceme. 
In the figure this is pretty well shewn; but the leaf is 
represented too cordate, and the form of the labellum is, 
as may be seen from the magnified figure, inaccurate. 
It is impossible to distinguish this from the M. ophio- 
glossoides of North America, which is well figured in 
Mr. Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet. It differs in its greater 
stature, it is true, and also in the proportion borne by the 
middle lobe of the labellum to the side ones; but we doubt 
whether the species of Orchideous plants are to be charac- 
terised by marks so slight as these. 
J. L. 
