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species has been sent by Mr. Booth, and renders further 



remark unnecessary. 



" This plant was forwarded to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., 

 in June, 1840, by George Ure Skinner, Esq., who collected 

 it in Guatemala, near the coast, in a damp climate, varying 

 temperature from 75° to 80°, where it flowers in Ja 



and February. It was also collected by Mr. Hartweg for th 



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Horticultural Society, by whom plants of it and others 

 distributed to various collections, including Carclew, where it 

 flowered in 1842, about the same time that it usually does in 

 its native country. Pseudo-bulbs roundish ovate, deep green, 

 three inches long and rather more than two inches broad, 

 roundish on one side and almost flat on the other ; two-ed^ed 

 and two-leaved, with three smaller leaves at the base of 

 bulb. Leaves from six to eight inches long, and about two 

 inches broad ; oblong -lanceolate acute. Scape nearly as 

 long as the leaves, deep green, two-edged, issuing from the 

 base of the pseudo-bulb, and bearing from three to six flowers 

 at its extremity. Pedicels curved at the base so as to become 

 erect by the time the flowers are fit to open. Flowers not 

 very showy, but remarkably fragrant. Sepals an inch long, 

 the two lower ones reflexed so as to cross one another at the 

 points ; the upper one concave and pointed, spreadi 



form nearly a right angle with the column ; outwardly 



they are each of a pale green, inwardly of a dull brown with 

 two or three greenish stripes across, and a little red towards 

 the base. Petals erect, similar in size and form to the upper 

 sepal, but slightly notched at the point, and of a pale reddish 

 brown. Labellum large, somewhat cordate, bent in the 

 middle and a good deal undulated at the margin, of a white 

 ground with a large irregular blotch of pale pink down the 

 centre, and two white elevated lines extending nearly half , its 

 length. At the throat are two small, yellow, fleshy projec- 

 tions. Column erect, two-edged, round at the back ; the 

 upper part of a pale pink, the lower white ; the inner sur- 

 face appears grooved, with two pink-coloured stripes on 

 either side resembling wings. Anther case same colour as 

 the column, nearly round, with a sharp edge on the top." 



19. SPIRANTHES cerina, 



S. (Sarcoglottis) cerina; fusco-olivacea, hirsuta, foliis . , . . hysteranthiis 

 squamis caulis distantibus lanceolatis circa sramim subsniralibus, spica 



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