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96. HARTWEGIA purpurea. 
** Climate varied from 56° to 75°.” 
97. ONCIDIUM ampliatum. | 
“ From Costa Rica; found there on the sea shore in the 
Gulf of Nicaya; since found throughout the coasts of Nica- 
ragua, and also in the Escuintla, 15 leagues from this city; 
climate 80° to 85°; flowers in February.” 
98. CYCNOCHES ventricosum. 
** Habitat 80° to 859, but found in a climate of 70 to 73 
much superior. | 
99. CATASETUM maculatum. 
* Habitat 75° and 80. Flowers in J uly.” 
100. TRIGONIDIUM Zgertonianum. 
“ Habitat 75° and 80”. Flowers in April.” 
101. MAXILLARIA Skinneri (Bateman mss.); pedunculis radicalibus? 
bracteá flori proximá ovata cucullatà acuminatâ sepalis dupló breviore, 
sepalis oblongis acutis glabris lateralibus majoribus basi parüm productis 
intüs villosis, petalis subrhombeis velutinis sepalo supremo brevioribus, 
labelli lobis lateralibus truncatis glabris intermedio ovato obtuso apicu- 
lato pubescente: laminá retusá transversâ infra lobum medium venisque 
Sparse villosis, columná elongatá tomentosa. 
“ This is the finest Maxillaria I ever saw. It has a 
gentle odour ; but the lip is magnificent purply white, with 
centre tigered in deep rose colour. Flowers in December 
and January, and even in April have I seen it. Habitat 
68° and 75°. Terrestrial.” 
Nearly allied to M. Harrisonim. Diameter of the flower 
from tip to tip of the lateral sepals four inches and a half. 
102. POLYSTACHYA bracteosa ; foliis obovato-oblongis acutis in petiolum 
carinatum angustatis, racemo tomentoso elongato cernuo basi ramoso, 
bracteis foliaceis acuminatissimis squarrosis, sepalis villosis, labelli ciliati 
trilobi per medium villosi lobo medio ovato acutiusculo. 
A drooping flowered Polystachya, with orange coloured 
flowers, imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges. 
Its leafy tapering squarrose bracts and downy flowers readily 
distinguish it from the rest of the genus. 
