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A native of Guatemala. Mr. Bateman's note about the 

 species is as follows: — "Another of the many interesting 

 discoveries of Mr. Skinner, who kindly sent it to me in 1836. 

 It is a very pretty and distinct species, a free grower, and 

 yields a perfume as delightful as that of the Tuberose, and 

 very similar to it. Two distinct species have already flowered 

 with me, one of which has a white lip, the lateral lobes of 

 which are nearly upright, while in the other the lip is rose- 

 coloured, and its lateral lobes bent back. The flowers of both 

 varieties are very durable." The sepals and petals are a 

 dull, dingy, brownish purple. 



67. BRASAVOLA angustata. 



B. angustata ; sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatissimis collo ovarii longio- 

 ribus, labello ovato acuminata serrulato basi baud cucullato, clinandrii trilobi 

 lobo medio incurvo integro lateralibus cuneatis flabellatim incisis. 



A fine new species, imported from Demerara by — Wil- 

 more, Esq., of Oldford, near Birmingham. The flowers are 

 large and long-stalked, of a pale yellowish green, with a 

 narrow fringed white lip. It differs from B. cucullata in 

 the lip not being at all cucullate at the base. The leaves 

 are very long and slender. 



68. ACANTHOPHIPPIUM striatum. 



A. striatum ; petalis oblongis acutis sepalisque apice revolutis, labelli lobis late- 

 ralibus rotundatis intermedio acuto carnoso utrinque plicato : disci callo 

 solitario elevato longitudinali. 



For this I am obliged to Mr. Bateman, who received it as 

 a Nepal plant from Her Majesty's Botanic Garden at Kew. 

 It is very inferior in appearance to A. bicolor, having pale 

 " French white" flowers, with dull longitudinal stripes, 

 and not a single stain of brilliant colour. The flowers are 

 smaller than in the species just mentioned, and their lower 

 sepals are so much contracted into a pouch at the bend of the 

 column-foot, as almost to form a spur ; the labellum has long- 

 rounded side-lobes, a small, contracted, tawny-spotted, acute 

 middle lobe, and a single elevated callosity running down its 

 middle. Mr. Bateman adds, that it has larger, narrower, 

 and more attenuated pseudo-bulbs, a three-flowered scape, 

 and leaves like those of A. bicolor. 



F. June 1838. g 



