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ODONTOGLOSSUM Bictoniense. 

 The Bicton Tooth-tongue. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. ord. Orchidace^, §. Vande.^. 

 ODONTOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, vol. 1839. /o^. 48. 



0. Bictoniense ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis 2-3-phyllis, foliis ensifar- 

 mibus undulatis patentibus scapo racemoso duplo brevioribus, bracteis 

 herbaceis lanceolatis acuminatis ovario duplo brevioribus, sepalis peta- 

 lisque subaequalibus lineari-lanceolatis maculatis, labelli ungue bilamel- 

 lato lamina cordata acuminata uudulata, columnse alis integris. 



a. labello rosea. 



0. Bictoniense. Sertum Orchidaceum sub. t. 25. 



CyrtochUum Bictoniense. Bateman^ Orch. Mexic. ^ Guatemala, t. 6. 



/3. labello subalbido. 



Zygopetalum africanum. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3812. 



A native of Guatemala, whence it was sent to Mr. Bate- 

 man by his correspondent Mr. Skinner. Having however 

 been also communicated at the same time to Lord Rolle and 

 Sir Charles Lemon, it first flowered at Bicton, whence the 

 beautiful specimen figured in Mr. Bateman's work, t. 6, was 

 sent. That now represented was given me by Mr. Bateman 

 in April, 1837. 



It has already been observed, in the Miscellaneous notices 

 of this work. No. 139, for the present year, that the Zygo- 

 petalum africanum, sent to Sir W. Hooker from Mr. Forbes 

 of Woburn, as a Sierra Leone plant, collected by Mr. Whit- 

 field, is no other than a pale variety of this species. Upon 

 turning to Mr. Bateman's work I see that he speaks of a 

 variety " with a pure white lip, and pale green sepals and 

 petals faintly blotched with a darker colour :" and it is pro- 

 bable that the Woburn plant belongs to that very variety. 

 Most assuredly it never came from Sierra Leone. Those 

 who have charge of imported plants ought to be very careful 



