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a bright yellowish red colour, like those of JEpidendrum 

 vitellinum, rather larger than in Broiightonia sanguinea^ and 

 scentless. 



23. OBERONIA cylindrica ; spica densa cylindracea, bracteis canaliculatis 



subciliatis, sepalis petalisque reflexis intus labelloque cordato truncato 

 iimbriato pubescentibus. 



A most curious little species of this strange genus of 

 epiphytes; imported from Manilla by Messrs. Loddiges. Its 

 flowers are small, green, very densely arranged in a perfectly 

 cylindrical spike about three inches long ; each flower appears 

 to consist of a labellum only, the sepals and petals being so 

 closely turned back as to be unobserved until carefully looked 

 for. The minute flowers are beautiful microscopical objects. 



/ 24. BRASAVOLA venosa ; folio lanceolato semicylindraceo supra canalicu- 

 lato, sepalis petalisque linearibus, labelli ungue longo couaplicato lamina 

 subrotundo-ovata subtriloba acuminata basi serrata : venis elevatis. 



A fine species resembling B. nodosa in habit, but with 

 much larger flowers, the sepals being more than two inches 

 long. The lip is white, the other parts greenish. It is at 

 once distinguished from B. nodosa and all the allied species 

 by the firmness of the lip, which is more or less evidently 

 lobed at the side, and has the veins distinctly elevated. The 

 flowers are deliciously sweet at night. Messrs. Loddiges im- 

 ported it from Honduras. 



^ 25. L^LIA nihescens ; pseudo-bulbis subrotundis compressis utrinque an- 

 gulo elevato, foliis oblongis obtusis- scapo tereti vaginato brevioribus, 

 racemo multifloro, bracteis [pubescentibus ovario plus duplo brevioribus, 

 sepalis linearibus, petalis lanceolatis subundulatis, labello conformi 

 auriculato medio pubescente : lineis duabus elevatis. 



For a specimen of this pretty new species I am indebted 

 to Mr. Barker, who purchased it some time ago from Mr. 

 Joseph Knight, Nurseryman, in the King's Road. Its native 

 country is unknown, but is probably Mexico. It forms a 

 patch of roundish compressed pseudo-bulbs, looking like 

 those of a Maxillaria, and bearing each a single broad leaf, 

 much shorter than the slender terminal scape. The latter is 

 about a foot long, and bears at its extremity a loose raceme 

 of delicate whitish flowers tinged with pink, and about the 

 size of those of L. albida. The two first flowers which 

 opened with Mr. Barker exhibited a singularly monstrous 



