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113. PAXTONIA rosea. 



One of the most curious plants sent from Manilla by 

 Mr. Cuming is this, which flowered in June in the collection 

 of Messrs. Loddiges, and which will be shortly figured in 

 this work. In the mean while the following short cha- 

 racter will enable Botanists to identify it, and will secure 

 the name to Mr. Paxton, whose claim to be permanently 

 associated with Orchidaceas will be readily admitted by all 

 who know anything of the admirable cultivation of such 

 plants at Chatsworth. 



Paxtonia (Nat. ord. OrchidacecB §. Malaxidece.) Perian- 

 tkium 6-phyllum, petaloideum, patens, sequale. Columna 

 libera, clavata, semiteres. Pollinia 8, angusta, clavata. Stigma 

 verticale. — The leaves are long, narrow, and slightly plaited, 

 and proceed from an oblong pseudo-bulb, which is marked 

 with circular scars indicating whence they fell. The flowers 

 are a purplish-lilac, rather larger than a shilling, and grow 

 upon a stem about a foot high, in a somewhat corymbose 

 raceme. They look like those of a Thelymitra, but the 

 structure of their column is entirely different. 



114. CATASETUM atratum. 



C. atratum ; racemo decurvo, sepalis petalisque patentibus ovatis acutis, labello 

 camoso cucullato margine tenui pectinato apice rotundato reflexo crasso 

 denticulate 



A curious dark-flowered species, obtained from Brazil by 

 Messrs. Loddiges. It will soon be figured in this work. 



115. ONClDIUM pulvinatum. 



O. pulvinatum ; panicula ramosissima, divaricata, sepalis obovatis lateralibus 

 liberis, petalis conformibus acutis, labelli lobis subaxpialibus intermedio bi- 

 lobo undulato lateralibus crenatis rotundatis crispis, disco pulvinato villosis- 

 simo, columnse alis rotundatis. 



A very fine plant, resembling O. dwaricatum, with a 

 panicle eight or nine feet long, imported from Brazil by 

 Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aighburgh, to whom a medal 

 was awarded for his exhibition of it at a recent meeting of 

 the Horticultural Society of London. A figure will appear 

 in this work. 



