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A small branching Orchidaceous plant, with leaves from 

 two to three inches long, and inconspicuous green flowers. 

 It was imported from the East Indies by Messrs. Loddiges. 



154. ONCiDIUM ramosum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1920. 



A very fine species, which has flowered with Messrs. 

 Loddiges, imported from Gongo Soco in Brazil. It has gay 

 pale flowers in a branched panicle, already a foot square, 

 u^^on a scape five feet high, and in its native state the inflo- 

 rescence is much larger. Several finger-like streaks of brown 

 radiate from the base of the tuberculated crest, whose eleva- 

 tions are disposed in two tiers, the upper consisting of five 

 short wavy ridges, and the lower of two, with a truncated 

 four-lobed tubercle between them. 



155. MAXILLARIA Madeei ; sub-caulescens, pseudobiilbis confertis ob- 

 longis monopbyllis subcompressis, foliis aciculatis, pedunculis axillaribus 

 Bolitariis basi sqiiamatis, floribus rectis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 

 conniventibus, petalis multo brevioribus acutis paululum recurvis, labello 

 oblongo indiviso margine piano apice baud reflexo, callo disci oblongo 

 integro. Bateman iii litt. 



" This plant is nearly related to, but undoubtedly distinct 

 from, M. tenuifolia ; the only species with which it is neces- 

 sary to contrast it. The following are the more prominent 

 marks of distinction. The pseudo-bulbs of M. Madeei in 

 form are a true oblong, instead of tapering as do those of 

 M. tenuifolia ; the leaves too of the former are not more than 

 one-third the length of those of the latter. In AI. tenuifolia 

 the sepals and petals have their edges recurved, in M. Mac- 

 leei they are perfectly plane ; again, in M. tenuifolia the 

 sepals are turned backwards, and the petals are connivent, 

 whereas in M. Madeei it is exactly the reverse ; the lip more- 

 over of the latter is not recurved. The colouring of the two 

 plants is also different, the sepals and petals of M. Madeei 

 being internally of a uniform rich reddish brown, and its lip 

 whitish, with intense maroon spots, while in M. tenuifolia 

 there is a considerable admixture of yellow, both in the 

 sepals and petals, and in the lip. 



" The species is a native of the inland parts of Guate- 

 mala, whence it was sent to me in the spring of the present 

 year, by my indefatigable correspondent Mr. Skinner, after 

 whose worthy partner, Mr. M'^Klee, I have much pleasure in 

 naming it ; the more particularly, as it is to his exertions that 



