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a bright yellowish red colour, like those of Epidendrum 
vitellinum, rather larger than in Broughtonia sanguinea, and 
scentless. 
23. OBERONIA eylindrica ; spica densa cylindraceá, bracteis canaliculatis 
subciliatis, sepalis petalisque reflexis intüs labelloque cordato truncato 
fimbriato pubescentibus. 
A most curious little species of this strange genus of 
epiphytes; imported from Manilla by Messrs. Loddiges. Its 
flowers are small, green, very densely arranged in a perfectly 
cylindrical spike about three inches long ; each flower appears 
to consist of a labellum only, the sepals and petals being so 
closely turned back as to be unobserved until carefully looked 
for. The minute flowers are beautiful microscopical objects. 
24. BRASAVOLA venosa 3 folio lanceolato semicylindraceo supra canalicu- 
lato, sepalis petalisque linearibus, labelli ungue longo complicato laminá 
subrotundo-ovatá subtrilobá acuminatá basi serratá : venis elevatis. 
A fine species resembling B. nodosa in habit, but with 
much larger flowers, the sepals being more than two inches 
long. The lip is white, the other parts greenish. It is at 
once distinguished from B. nodosa and all the allied species 
by the firmness of the lip, which is more or less evidently 
lobed at the side, and has the veins distinctly elevated. The 
flowers are deliciously sweet at night. Messrs. Loddiges im- 
ported it from Honduras. 
25. LALÍA rubescens 3 pseudo-bulbis subrotundis compressis utrinque an- 
gulo elevato, foliis oblongis obtusis scapo tereti vaginato brevioribus, 
racemo multifloro, bracteis [pubescentibus ovario plus dupló brevioribus, 
sepalis linearibus, petalis lanceolatis subundulatis, labello conformi 
auriculato medio pubescente: lineis duabus elevatis. 
For a specimen of this pretty new species I am indebted 
to Mr. Barker, who purchased it some time ago, from Mr. 
Joseph Knight, Nurseryman, in the King’s Road. Its native 
country 1s unknown, but is probably Mexico. It forms a 
patch of roundish compressed pseudo-bulbs, looking like 
those of a Maxillaria, and bearing each a single broad leaf, 
much shorter than the slender terminal scape. The latter is 
about a foot long, and bears at its extremity a loose raceme 
of delicate whitish flowers tinged with pink, and about the 
size of those of LZ. albida. The two first flowers which 
opened with Mr. Barker exhibited a singularly monstrous 
