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front of the column, and produces the appearance of a junction. 

 The flowers have no smell. 



112. MASDEVALLIA floribunda. 



M. floribunda ; folio carnoso spatbulato obtuso apice tridentato, scapo loa- 

 giore unifloro, flore bilabiato, sepalis lateralibus oblougis dorsaU duplo 

 breviore ovato omnibus in acumen linearem obtusum productis, petalis 

 truncatis antice infra medium unidentatis lineis duabus brevibus carnosis 

 versus apicem incrassatis, labello ovato-oblongo Isevi lineis duabus elevatis 

 carnosis rotundatis obsoletis. 



A little Mexican Orchidaceous plant, from the collection 

 of John Rogers, Esq. of Sevenoaks, flowering profusely during 

 a large part of the year. The leaves are olive green, about 

 three inches and a half long, including the stalk, of a thick 

 texture, and a rounded, not acute, margin. The flowers are 

 a dull brownish yellow, and grow singly on slender stalks five 

 or six inches long. The length of the sepals is about three 

 quarters of an inch. It is the only species of this singular 

 genus not found in the northern hemisphere. 



113. RODRIGUEZIA carnea. 



R. carnea ; pseudobulbis compressis ovalibus, foliis lanceolatis canaliculatis 

 acutis, racemo secundo foliis breviore ascendente, sepalo supremo forni- 

 cato inferiore bidentato, petalis ovatis obtusis, labeUo juxta basin aurito 

 disco interrupt^ bilamellato apice cuneato emarginato, columna elongata 

 basi lauata. 



A discovery of Mr. Linden in Columbia, in the year 1842, 

 very like a small pale specimen of R. secunda. It difi*ers 

 however not merely in size and colour, but in having only two 

 instead of three raised plates on the bend of the labellum, and 

 in its column being unusually long and woolly. We are in- 

 debted for our specimen to the Rev. J. Clowes. The foliage 

 is much the same as that of R. secunda, but narrower. 



114 BEATONIA atrata. 

 Herbert in litteris. 



B. atrata ; cormo oblong^ ovato apiculato, foliis plicatis suberectis acutis 

 utrinque attenuatis 12-!5-unc. sesquiunc. vel ultra latis glabris [margine 

 vix sub lente subscabro] viridibus, caule bipedali articulis foliaceo-brac- 

 teatis, spatha 2| unc. bivalvi sequali bracteis 2 internis minoribus, flori- 

 bus successivis, pedunculis teretibus unciam exsertis virescentibus, ovario 



