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surprise then may be easily imagined when, about the end of January 
1832, I saw in Mr. Bauer's possession a drawing of the plant of Dicrypta 
Baueri from which had been taken the analysis of the flower I had de- 
scribed, and recognised it to be my Heterotaxis crassifolia ; nor was this sur- 
prise diminished when, upon the occasion of the species flowering in 
the Horticultural Society's Garden on the 24th of April 1832, I finally ascer- 
tained that not only was my original description in 1824 wholly erroneous, 
but that Mr. Bauer's drawing, otherwise admirably correct, was wrong in 
representing the pollen-masses without caudicula or gland. Ifound them 
to be seated upon a narrow short caudicula with a broad narrow lunate 
gland ; and this is no doubt the true structure. 
Iam thus obliged to reproduce Dicrypta in its more correct position 
and to request that the genus may be erased from the station formerly as- 
signed it among Malaxidee. I abolish the name Heterotaxis because it was 
given in mistake. 
LXXXIV. GOVENIA. 
Govenia. Lindl. in Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1709. 
Perianthium bilabiatum. Sepala lateralia falcata, labello supposita, basi 
paululum connata, supremo paulo majora. Petala sub sepalo supremo 
conniventia, breviora, obliqua. Labellum integerrimum, ecalcaratum, 
concavum, cum basi parum productà columne articulatum, sessile. 
Columna basi pauló producta, teres, subfusiformis, apice utrinque mar- 
ginata. Anthera calyptriformis, 1-locularis. Pollinia 4, solida, incum- 
bentia, caudiculà brevi, glandulà minore triangulari. Terrestris. 
Folia plicata. Spice radicales, multiflore. Flores speciosi. 
1. Goventa superba. Lindl. l. c. 
Maxillaria superba. Lexarz. et Llave Orch, Mex. 2. 13. 
Hab in montibus Mezici, prope Vallisoletum, florens Augusto ; Llave. (® v. 
c. comm. amic. Loddiges.) 
Flores aurantiaci, sanguineo-maculati. Petala cuneata, collateralia, cus- 
pidata, basi valdé obliqua. 
LXXXV. ALAMANIA. 
Alamania. La Llave et Lexarz. Nov. Veg. 31. (1825.) 
Perianthium patens, equale. Sepala lateralia basi connata, calcar referen- 
tia. Labellum petalis conforme, basi glandulosum aut tuberculatum. 
Columna carnosa, tricuspidata, aptera, basi in calcar tubulosum pro- 
ducta. Anthera 4-locularis. Pollinia 4, pedicellata. Herba epiphyta, 
pumila, pseudobulbosa. Scapi simplices multiflori. Flores speciosi. 
Char. ex aut. citat. An partes rect? descriptae ? An caudicula polliniorum 
simplex, duplexve ? 
l. Avamania punicea. La Llave et Lezarz. l. c. 
Hab, super arbores Mezici in monte excelso Quinzeo, prope } 
La Llave. 
Planta exigua. Pseudobulbilli oblongi, conferti, subdiphylli, membranis 
scariosis tecti, Folia ovata, crassa, acuminata, fusca. Scapus terminalis, 
‘allisoletum ; 
