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two caudiculse to the pollen-masses. Its relationship to 

 B. aurantiaca is however such as to make me unwilling to 

 separate it at present. The flowers are orange spotted with 

 brown, and in a raceme very like that of the species just 

 mentioned. Messrs. Lod'diges imported it from Demerara. 



178. TRICHOCENTRON iridifolium. 



(r. Loddiges in litt. 



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T. iridifolium : foliis distichis lineari-lanceolatis carnosis, labello ovali obtuso 



mdiviso basi bilamellato, columnse alls parvis obtusis integris. 



A small species, with pale yellow flowers, having the lip 

 delicately streaked with darker yellow. It was imported by 

 Messrs. Loddiges from Demerara; 



179. ^THERIA occulta. 



Goodyera occulta, Thvuars orch. afr. t. 28. Platylepis goodyeroIdes,^c^.i?icA. 



A specimen of this plant, obtained from the Mauritius, 

 has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. It proves to belong to 

 the genus iEtheria of Blume : that is to the Goodyeras, with 

 the lip and the column united to each other by their edges. 

 The plant is about a foot high, with a dense oval spike of 

 membranous downy bracts, from among which the small 

 white and green flowers are just protruded. 



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180. LIPARIS pendul 



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l^.pendula; pseudobulbls elongatis compressis diphyllis, racemo termlnali lon- 



gissimo pendulo, sepalis reflexis obtusis laterallbus oblongis intermedio an- 

 tico angustwre et longiore, petalis linearibus reflexis, labello postico ovato 

 concavo basi 2-calloso. 



. ^j"^*^^^ 0^ *^ie continent of India, whence it was ob- 

 tained by Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are small, green, 

 and arranged m a pendulous raceme full a foot long. All 

 the parts of the flower abound in compound 5-threaded 

 spiral vessels, and raphides lodged in cubical parcels in the 

 mside of cells larger and more transparent than those sur- 

 rounding them. The latter give the parts the appearance 

 ot having transparent dots. The species ranges near L. 



longipes. 



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