Mr. J. E. Gray on the Animal of Spirula. 257 



acuto petiolato, racemo elongate flexuoso multifloro, flore cylin- 



draceo basi gibboso, sepalis lateralibus subrotundis semiconnatis 



dorsali ovato acuminato breviore. 

 Popayan (Hartweg). 



A charming plant. Flowers an inch and a half long, scarlet, ar- 

 ranged in a raceme of from four to eleven flowers. 



37. Masdevallia rosea ; folio lanceolato trinervi longe petiolato 

 scapo longiore v. breviore, flore cylindraceo tubo limbo aequali, 

 sepalis lateralibus semiconnatis dimidiatis setaceo-acuminatis dor- 

 sali e basi triangulari setaceo sequali. 



Loxa (Hartweg). 



Flowers pink, 2 inches long, very showy. 



38. Masdevallia Meleagris; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis longe 

 petiolatis trinerviis scapo unifloro brevioribus, sepalis oblongis 

 abrupte in setam ipsis duplo longiorem productis. 



Bogota (Hartweg). 



The upper sepal banded with violet ; the lateral ones smaller, ap- 

 parently without bands, but stained with rose-colour, 4 lines long be- 

 low their bristle. Leaves 3-toothed, about 2 inches long. Flower- 

 stalk the same length. 



39. Masdevallia /«t'/5 ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis trinerviis 

 in petiolum ipsis sequalem angustatis, scapo foliis breviore, sepalis 

 campanulatis antice infractis acuminatis lateralibus intus pubes- 

 centibus, petalis oblongis truncatis hinc crassissimis, labello ob- 

 longo apice rotundato Isevi. 



Popayan (Hartweg). 



Flowers apparently purple. 



40. Masdevallia coriacea ; foliis lineari- oblongis in petiolum sen- 

 sim angustatis coriaceis marginatis mucronatis scapi longitudine, 

 sepalis acuminatis obtusis intus pubescentibus subringentibus, pe- 

 talis obovato-lanceolatis, labello oblongo unguiculato apice rotun- 

 dato intra apicem glanduloso scabro. 



Bogota (Hartweg). 



The flowers, which are yellow and an inch and a half long, corre- 

 spond with Humboldt and Bonpland's figure of M. uniflora ; but the 

 leaves are quite diff^erent. I suspect that figure to have been made 

 up with the flowers of this M. coriacea and the leaves of M. Icevis. 



XXXIV.— 0?i the Animal of Spirula. By J . E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S. 



[With a Plate.] 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



Mr. Cuming has kindly placed in my hands for examination and 



description the animal of the genus Spirula which he has just 



procured from Mr. P. Earl. 



