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i 113. PAXTONIA rosea. 



One of the most curious plants sent from Manilla by 

 Mr. Cuming is this, which flowered in June in the collection 



of Messrs. Loddiges, and which will be shortly figured in 



this work. In the mean while the following short cha- 

 racter will enable Botanists to identify it, and will secure 

 the name to Mr. Paxton, whose claim to be permanently 

 associated with Orchidacese will be readily admitted by a 

 who know anything of the admirable cultivation of such 



plants at Chats worth. 



Paxtonia (Nat. ord. OrchidacecB §. Malaxidece .) Perian- 

 thium 6-phyllum, petaloideum, patens, aequale. Columna 

 libera, clavata, semiteres. Pollinia 8, angusta, clavata. Stigma 

 verticale. — The leaves are long, narrow, and slightly plaited, 

 and proceed from an oblong pseudo-bulb, which is marked 

 with circular scars indicating whence they fell. The flowers 

 are a purplish-lilac, rather larger than a shilling, and grow 

 upon a stem about a foot high, in a somewhat corymbose 

 raceme. They look like those of a Thelymitra, but the 

 structure of their column is entirely diflferent. 



114. CATASETUM atratiim. 



C. alratum ; racemo decurvo, sepalis petalisque patentibus ovatis acutis, label lo 

 carnoso cucullato margine tenui pectlnato apice rotundato reflexo crasso 

 dehticulato. 



A curious dark-flowered species, obtained from Brazil by 

 Messrs. Loddiges. It will soon be figured in this work. 



115. ONCIDIUM pulvinatum. 



liberls, petalls confonnibus acutis, labellilobis subflequalibus intenncdio bi- 

 lobo undulato lateralibus crenatis rotundatis crispis, disco pulvinato villosis- 

 simo, columnae alis rotundatis. 



A very fine plant, resembling O. divarlcatum, with a 

 panicle eight or nine feet long, imported from Brazil by 

 Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, to whom a medal 

 was awarded for his exhibition of it at a recent meeting of 

 the Horticultural Society of London. A figure will appear 

 in this work. 



