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little green flowers at Syon. It is nearly allied to A. falcatus, 
from which it differs in its smaller solitary leaves, and in the 
flowers not growing in racemes. 
37. CROCUS medius. 
Balbis. - 
C. medius; cormi tunicis tenuiter cribrosè reticulatis, vaginaceá interiore 
prope basim, foliaceis brevibus summo cormo affixis, foliis 2-3, flore 
autumnali, scapo involucrato, spathà longé exsertà ebracteatä, tubo 
spatham superante, limbo purpureo.— W. H. 
Bulbs of this have been received by the Dean of Man- 
chester from meadows about Varése, on the mountains of 
Liguria. These having flowered at Spofforth, Mr. Herbert 
has favoured us with the true character of the plant. 
38. ONCIDIUM lacerum. 
O. (TERETIFOLIA) lacerum ; foliis longis teretibus carinatis, paniculá con- 
tractà multiflorá, sepalis petalisque conformibus obovatis concavis, labelli 
elongati laciniis lateralibus linearibus refractis intermedia longé et 
angusté unguiculatá bilobá margine lacerá, cristee dente altero trans- 
verso altero majore compresso a fronte, column brevis pubescentis alis 
semiovatis. 
Panama has furnished this very pretty species to Messrs. 
Loddiges, who flowered it in April 1844. It has very much 
the habit of O. longifolium, but has rather denser flowers, 
with a lacerated and rather crisp middle lobe to the lip, and a 
crest consisting of one transverse tubercle, like that of O. 
nudum, and another larger, compressed, rounded, and at right 
angles to it in front. 
39. TULÍPA humilis. 
T. humilis ; foliis tribus (rariüs quatuor) humum prope divaricantibus 4 
biformibus feré linearibus send: rectis ids margine strat io 
scapo sesquiunciali leevi purpurascente, perianthio subsesquiunciali laciniis 
acutis, petalis latioribus pallidissimé purpurascentibus inferne lætè luteis 
extus viridi striatis, sepalis intus veluti petala extus virescentibus margine 
purpurascente basi livido-virente, filamentis luteis inferne complanatis 
prope basim uti petalorum margines albo pubescentibus antheras longi- 
tudine superantibus, germen petalinis ferà sepalinis sequantibus.— W. H. 
This beautiful little Tulip is undescribed as far as I know. 
It agrees with nothing in the books within my reach. It is 
