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Ghent. It is a curious plant, flowering without leaves, about 

 8 inches high, smooth, with 3 or 4 large semi-transparent 

 loose sheaths, streaked with rose-colour. The flowers are 

 enclosed in a head of such sheaths, are downy outside, white, 

 with green streaks outside, and a yellow blotch below the 

 point of the white lip. Probably a native of Mexico. 



21. SCHOMBURGKIA undulata. 



S. undulata ; floribus dense racemosis, bracteis longissimis spathaceis, sepalis 

 petalisque sequalibus undulato-crispis labello longioribus, labelli lobis 

 lateralibns rotundatis iutermedio ovali acuto trilamellato liueis miuoribiis 

 elevatis interjectis. 



This is a beautiful species received by Mr. Rucker from 

 Linden, who gathered it in La Guayra. It has fine rich 

 brownish purple sepals and petals, and a clear violet-purple 

 lip. From S. crispa it differs in having the middle lobe of 

 the lip oval acute, and only 3-ribbed, while the side lobes are 

 much smaller and flatter ; from S. marginata, with which it 

 corresponds in the form of the lip, it is distinguished by its 

 very long narrow crisp sepals and petals. The flowers are as 

 large as those of S. tibicinis, but the inflorescence is quite 

 difl^erent. Unless my memory fails me, there is a represen- 

 tation of this plant among Flumier's figures, which I have not 

 just now an opportunity of consulting. 



22. COBURGTA miniata. 



C. miniata ; foliis virentibus 3-pedalibus scapo compresso 8equalibus,'^peri- 

 antliii tubo anguste clavato limbo triplo longiore, ovario pedicello sub- 

 sequali, filamentis basi membranaceis utrinque dilatatis vix iu coronulam 

 brevissimam connatis. 



The leaves of this plant are full three feet long, and less 

 than an inch broad, bright green, but nevertheless coated by 

 a bloom too thin to render them distinctly glaucous. The 

 scape is of the same height, very slightly glaucous. The 

 flowers, when young, are almost white, with a vermilion tinge 

 on the back, and a little green at their points. When full 

 grown they are two inches and a half long, and the vermiHon 

 colour overspreads them almost entirely. The filaments are 

 very slightly dilated at the base into a membrane, and scarcely 

 form a cup. This has the slenderest flowers of any species 



