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grow ill the greatest profusion in the situation described ; 



and though at the period of Mr. Skinner's visit they were in 



a parched and torpid state, he was informed by a resident 



tr that during the season of their flowering they scented the 



air to an extraordinary and almost insupportable degree. 

 To this ' excess of sweets ' E. altissimum contributes a power- 

 ful odour resembling bees-wax ; but in potency it is far 

 surpassed by another unpublished species from the same 

 quarter, for which I am also indebted to the zeal and libe- 

 rality of Mr. Skinner, and which yields a perfume at once 

 delicate and powerful, and so closely resembling that of our 

 wild English primroses, that I have in consequence named 



it * E. primulinum.' " 



I have also received it from Messrs. Rx)llissons. It is 

 very like Epid. oncidioides, Bot. Beg. t 1623, from which 

 its long pseudo-bulbs, gigantic stature, and labellum, alone 



distino;uish it. 



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62. ACACIA cultriformis. A. Cunningham, 



in Hookers Ic. plant, ii. t 170. 



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This species has flowered in the collection of Messrs. 

 Rollissons, and proves a most charming conservatory plant, 

 with quantities of clusters of yellow flowers, terminating 

 branches covered with glaucous half rhomboidal leaves. 



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63. ONCiDIUM strammeum. Bateman in litt, 



O. stramineum ; ebulbe, foliis crassls camosis ovato-lanceolatls acutis dorao ro- 

 tundatls scapo paniculate rigido erecto brevioribus, sepalis «ubrotnndis un- 

 crinculatis concavis liberis integerrlm'is, petalls duplo majonbus oblongw 



oblongis 

 termedio reniformi 



piano emarginato majoribus, tuberculis disci 4 geminatis, column* alis 



* . T !1 .l....oto ol^nrrofiQ rrannflo-Vie /IpriirvlB. 



! carnosis linearibus 



A beautiful stove epiphyte, sent from the neighbourhood 

 of Vera Cruz to the Horticultural Society by their collector, 

 Mr. Hartweg. It has pale straw-coloured flowers, about as 

 lar^e as those of O.flexuosum, with a faint smell of prim 



roses The base of the lower sepals, the lower part of the 

 lip, the column, and a line along the origin of the petals are 



