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187. PERISTYLUS goodyeroides. Lindl. gen. & sp. orcb. p. 299. 



A herbaceous species of the Orchidaceous order, inhabit- 

 ing the north of India. It has a long spike of pure white 

 flowers, about the size of the Lily of the Valley, the fragrance 

 of which it rivals. A specimen before me from Ceylon, 

 which has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges (no. 965), does not 

 appear to diff*er from the plant of the Himalayas. 



188. DENDROBIUM (Onycliium) aciculare ; caule basi conico angulato 

 sursum tereti, foHis acicularibus, flore solitario 1 termiiiali galeato, 

 labelli postici trilobi per medium tricarinati lobis laterabbus rotuudatis 

 autic^ et intermedio ovato serrulatis. 



A curious little species, with the base of the stems angular 

 and conical, while the whole of the upper part suddenly 

 tapers and becomes very slender. It bears about three 

 acicular leaves, from the axil of the uppermost of which 

 springs the short peduncle, bearing at its end a cluster of 

 small dry scales, from which proceeds a single yellowish 

 flower slightly tinged with pink. Messrs. Loddiges received 

 it from Mr. Cuming, who gathered it at Sincapore (no. VJ4^). 



189. LIPARIS spathulata; pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis dipbyllis, fobis en- 

 siformibus basi angustatis scapo ancipiti longioribus v. subeequaUbus, 

 racemo denso erecto cylindraceo, petabs filiformibus, sepabs bueari- 

 oblongis, labello ovato-lanceolato canabculato recurvo basi ecalloso, 



A plant of no beauty, imported by Messrs. Loddiges from 

 India, with a long raceme of minute green flowers. It was 

 originally found in the Burmese empire by Mr. Griffith, and 

 is the no. 77^ of that indefatigable Botanist's Burmese 

 herbarium. 



190. EPIDENDRUM (Aubzeum) viscidum ; caule tereti monopbyllo vagina 

 altera longiore infra fobum, folio canabculato mucronulato, racemo pau- 

 cifloro, bracteis berbaceis glutinosis carbiatis ovarii dimidium sequantibus, 

 petabs sepabsque bnearibus acuminatis berbaceis, labelli tripartiti basi 

 bicallosi laciniis laterabbus semirbombeis acuminatis setaceo-fimbriatis 

 intermedia subulata brevioribus, cbnandrio cucuUato dentate. 



A native of Mexico, and nearly allied to E. ciliare, from 

 which its single narrow channelled leaf, smaller flowers, and 

 glutinous bracts distinguish it. The flowers have a weak smell 

 like Cucumbers. It was imported by Messrs. Loddiges (373). 



191. MAXILLARiA macrophylla. Poppig. Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 175. 



Of this fine plant Messrs. Loddiges have flowered a new 



November, 1840. I 



