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A small branching Orchidaceous plant, with leaves from 
two to three inches long, and inconspicuous green flowers. 
It was imported from the East Indies by Messrs. Loddiges. 
154. ONCIDIUM ramosum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1920. 
A very fine species, which has flowered with Messrs. 
Loddiges, imported from Gongo Soco in Brazil. It has gay 
pale flowers in a branched panicle, already a foot square, 
upon a scape five feet high, and in its native state the inflo- 
rescence is much larger. Several finger-like streaks of brown 
radiate from the base of the tuberculated crest, whose eleva- 
tions are disposed in two tiers, the upper consisting of five 
short wavy ridges, and the lower of two, with a truncated 
four-lobed tubercle between them. 
155. MAXILLARIA Macleei; sub-caulescens, pseudobulbis confertis ob- 
longis monophyllis subcompressis, foliis aciculatis, pedunculis axillaribus 
solitariis basi squamatis, floribus rectis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 
conniventibus, petalis multd brevioribus acutis paululim recurvis, labello 
oblongo indiviso margine plano apice haud reflexo, callo disci oblongo 
integro. Bateman in litt. 
“ This plant is nearly related to, but undoubtedly distinct 
from, M. tenuifolia ; the only species with which it is neces- 
sary to contrast it. The following are the more prominent 
marks of distinction. The pseudo-bulbs of M. Macleei in 
form are a true oblong, instead of tapering as do those of 
M. tenuifolia ; the leaves too of the former are not more than 
one-third the length of those of the latter. In M. tenuifolia 
the sepals and petals have their edges recurved, in M. Mac- 
leei they are perfectly plane; again, in M. tenuifolia the 
sepals are turned backwards, and. the petals are connivent, 
whereas in M. Macleei it is exactly the reverse ; the lip more- 
over of the latter is not recurved. The colouring of the two 
plants is also different, the sepals and petals of M. Macleei 
being internally of a uniform rich reddish brown, and its lip 
whitish, with intense maroon spots, while in M. tenuifolia 
there is a considerable admixture of yellow, both in the 
sepals and petals, and in the lip. 
“ The species is a native of the inland parts of Guate- 
mala, whence it was sent to me in the spring of the present 
year, by my indefatigable correspondent Mr. Skinner, after 
whose worthy partner, Mr. M*Klee, I have much pleasure in 
naming it; the more particularly, as it is to his exertions that 
