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important points, especially the curvature of the peduncle. 

 The Beatonias, whether considered as a section or a distinct 

 genus, have much smaller flowers, in all tending to purple, 

 and they will not breed with Tigridia as far as tried.— W. H. 



116. STANHOPEA guttulata. 



S. guttulata, ; sepalo supremo oblongo concavo apice abrupte recurvo, Iabelli 

 hypochilio angusto a latere compresso apice carnoso dente valido inflexo, 

 epicbilii cornubus lateralibus teretibus apiculatis lobo intermedio ovato 

 indiviso brevioribus, columna apice tantuin abrupte alata. 



Of this very singular and most distinct species I have only 

 seen a single flower, from the collection of J. H. Wanklyn, 

 Esq. of Crumpsell House, and I am unacquainted with its 

 history. The flower was rather small for the genus, of a clear 

 very pale nankin colour, closely covered all over with small 

 crimson and brown spots and dots, even up to the tip of the 

 labellum. It is to be hoped that further information con- 

 cerning it will soon be gained. It is a plant of the greatest 

 interest. 



117. CYCNOCHES ventricosum, and 

 CYCNOCHES Egertonianum. 



"Strange things," says Mr. Bateman, in his magnificent 

 work on OrchidacesB, now alas concluded — "and no less 

 strange than true — have already been recorded of Orchida- 

 ceous plants, but the case which is represented in the accom- 

 panying plate casts into the shade all former frolics of this 

 Protean tribe. The facts are briefly as follow. 



" Among Mr. Skinner's earliest Guatemala collections, 

 attention was particularly directed to the specimens of a plant 

 which to the habit of a Cycnockes joined the long pendulous 

 stems of a Gongora, and for the possession of which, in a 

 living state, no small anxiety was entertained. Some plants 

 were speedily transmitted by Mr. Skinner, but these, on flow- 

 ering, proved to be merely the old C. ventricosum. A mistake 

 was of course suspected, and Mr. Skinner being again applied 

 to, sent over a fresh supply of plants, for the authenticity of 

 which he vouched j but these were scarcely settled in the 

 stove, when flowers of C. ventricosum were again produced. 

 Mr. Skinner being importuned for the third time, and being 



