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falcate, undulate, and more nearly lanceolate, the two inner rather the 

 narrowest. Lahellum as long as the perianth, and of rather paler colour, 

 having many erect papillae within the edges of the column, curved down- 

 wards, flattened, its edges entire, and overlapping above, terminated by 

 three lobes, of which the middle is the largest, projecting forwards, cor- 

 dato-subrotund, saddle-shaped, all the three ragged at the edge, and un- 

 dulated, but the lateral lobes less so, and not spreading ; middle lobe of 

 deep purple, mottled with the general colour of the labellum or perianth. 

 Column half the length of the labellum, shaped like a boat, blunt in the 

 keel, and inverted upon the floor of the labellum, a round notch at its 

 extremity, with a projecting tooth in the middle bent over the anther- 

 case ; the sides of this notch project, are truncated, and edged with 



lumn, large, nearly white, bilobular, hemispherical, flattened on both its 

 sides, applied by its lower surface to the top of the stigma, each lobe bi- 

 locular, loculaments linear, open towards the stigma, and having brown, 

 dry, crisped, somewhat ragged edges : Pollen-masses 4, in pairs, dry, hard, 

 obscurely granular, yellow, ovate, subacute, flattened, each convex on 

 the side next its fellow, attached by one side of its base to a flattened 

 yellow filament, the point of articulation being brown. These filaments 

 cohere slightly in pairs by their edges, are inflected, and passing between 

 the pollen-masses and the stigma, become again inflected at their termi- 

 nations, in four distinct points, at the origin of the anther-case. Stigma 

 large, occupying nearly the upper half of the lower side of the column, 

 flat, and projectmg along the lower surface of the anther-case, concave be- 

 low, and subacute downwards. German about 1^ inch long, club-shaped, 

 erect, slightly curved, brownish-green, slightly spotted with purple, and 

 having three longitudinal double furrows. 



It is with much pleasure that I add a fifth species of CatUeya to the four 

 already in cultivation. Its nearest aflinity certainly is to C. Forbesii, 

 but the general appearance of the flower more nearly resembles C. la- 

 biata^ and it is almost as handsome. C. Forbesii could not be distinguish- 

 ed from this by the essential character given by Lindley in Bot. Reg. 

 fbl. 953., to which, therefore, must be added the acuminate membranous 

 spathe, closely embracing the peduncle, and much shorter than it The 

 habit, as shown in Bot. Reg. is precisely the same as C. intermedia, 



C. intermedia has the 3-lobed lip and the stem of C. Loddigesii and C. For- 

 besii^ the approximating perianth of C. Forbesii and C. labiata, the form 

 of perianth and sharply jagged lip of C. Forbesii, the colours and spathe 

 of C. labiata, only that the spathe is united at its edges, in which cir- 

 cumstance there is an agreement with C. Loddigesii, but in this, again, 

 the spathe is pointed, and much shorter than the peduncle. 



We received our specimens, along with many other valuable plants, from 

 Mr Harris of Rio Janeiro, by Captain Graham of his Majesty's Packet 

 Service, in 1824. They have been kept in the stove in pots of decayed 

 bark, and the specimen now described flowered for the first time in spring 

 182C, but met with an accident before it could be figured or described. 

 It for the second time flowered last April, and remained in perfection 

 several days. Another plant has blossomed while this sheet was at the 

 press. Other specimens, subjected to precisely the same treatment, have 

 remained without the least alteration in their appearance since they were 

 imported. The subject of the present article is now pushing its roots 

 freely over the pieces of bark. A figure taken from it will be given by 

 Dr Hooker in an early number of the Botanical Magazine. 



Conospermum ericifolium. 



C. ericifolium ; foliis lineare-filiformibus, utrinque subcanaliculatis, aveniis ; 

 pedunculis elongatis, spicis subcapitatis ; calyce extus pubescent!, lim- 

 bo tubum vix sequante. 



Conospermum ericifolium, Brown, Trans. Lin. Sue. vol. x. p. 154.— 

 Rtidge, ibid. p. 292, t. 17, f. 1. 



