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A very singular plant, allied to B. sanatorium, and like 

 that species having a moveable lip fringed with long purple 

 hairs, which rises and falls spontaneously as the stem sways 

 about in the wind. Its scape is full two feet long, stiff and 

 erect. The flowers are of a dirty yellow ochre colour with a 

 little purple upon them ; the lip is dull purple. For our spe- 

 cimens we are indebted to Col. Fielding, who procured the 

 species from Sierra Leone. 



110. MILTONIA Candida; var. grandiflora. 



LindL in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 29. Sertum Orch. t. 21. 



Of this fine plant a most beautiful variety has flowered 

 with Mr. Rucker, who purchased it in Hamburgh. Its flowers 

 are twice as large as those of the original variety, the lip is of 

 a most brilliant white, and the sepals and petals are of a deep 

 rich brown spotted towards the extremities only with yellow. 



111. CATASETUM Naso. 



C. Naso ; spica brevi erecta, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis complicatis petalisque 

 lanceolatis ascendentibus sequalibus, labello hemispkserico apice abrupt^ 

 in appendicem carnosum ovatum obtusum producto : marginibus basi 

 tenuibus laceris anaplexicolumnibus : linea intramarginali carnosa inflexa 

 connivente aperturam cordiformem efficiente, columna bicirrhosa. 



This singular plant was received last year from Linden by 

 Mr. Rucker, with whom it' has lately flowered. It is a plant 

 whose flowers before opening might be mistaken for C. tri- 

 dentatum, but when expanded they are totally different. The 

 sepals and petals, which are very pale dull green outside, are 

 slightly pink inside, and richly spotted, in irregular bars, with 

 a deep crimson-purple. The lip is a most singular organ, 

 and very difficult to describe. Viewed from the side it has a 

 hemispherical form, and is green except at the base, where it 

 is extended into a black-purple lacerated margin embracing 

 the column, and at the point where it is extended into a long 

 flat horn or nose. Seen in front it is almost wholly of the 

 same rich black-purple, and looks as if it were a solid hemi- 

 sphere pierced in the middle with a large heart-shaped hole ; 

 but this appearance is owing to a thick fleshy rim which rises 

 from within the true edge of the lip, and directing itself in- 

 wards horizontally with an uneven outline, at last touches in 



