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indebted to the Rev. John Clowes of Broughton, a most 

 zealous and successful Horticulturist, who received it from 

 the Organ mountains of Brazil a few years since. Its flower- 

 stem is about a foot high, and is terminated by four or five 

 large starry flowers, yellow mottled with brown, while the 

 lip is white with a rich violet base. A drawing of it, by 

 Miss Mearns, will appear shortly in this work. 



154. C AT ASF,TIJ WL longifolium ; follis longissimis graminels, racerao cyliii- 

 draceo pendulo multifloro, sepalis ovatis subrotundis petalorum conformium 

 dorso applicitis, labello urceolari a tergo incurvo limbo truncate aplculato 

 intus cereaceo glabro marcrine fimbriato. 



This plant is in several collections where Demerara Or- 

 chidacese are grown, and is known as the long-leaved Cate- 

 setum which never flowers. It has however at last yielded 

 to the good management of Valentine Morris, Esq. of the 

 Retreat, Battersea, where it has produced its blossoms abun- 

 dantly. It is too large a plant to suit the pages of the 

 Botanical Register, and will therefore appear in the 7th fasci- 

 culus of the Sertum Orchidaceum, now in preparation. The 

 flowers are bright orange, a little bordered with violet, and 

 appear in a drooping raceme, over which they are closely 

 packed for the length of a foot or more ; they are extremely 

 beautiful, and the species is beyond all comparison the hand- 

 somest of its genus. 



155. PLEUROTHALLIS sca5ri/)e5 ; folio lineari-lanceolato apice tridentato 

 caule longiore, vagina pilosa caulis medium subcequante, flare solltario 

 pubescentc, ovario tomentoso, sepalis quam petala triplo-longioribus acutis 

 lateralibus connatis, labello spathulato rotundato. 



A curious little plant, transmitted to me by Mr. Booth 

 with the following note. 



" For specimens of this singular plant I am indebted to 

 Michael Williams, Esq. of Trevince, who informed me that 

 he received it in 1837, with some other Brazilian plants, 

 from Lieut. Downey of H. M. Packet establishment at 

 Falmouth, and that it has been successfully cultivated in a 

 shaded part of the stove, attached to a small bit of wood, and 

 kept very moist. 



" The whole plant does not exceed five inches in height. 

 The stem, which is one-leaved, is about two inches long, hard 

 and round, with a groove on one side, and having for half 

 its length a thin, pubescent, brownish covering, thickly 



