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the vicinity of the gold mines in Brazil. It has small yellow 

 and brown flowers, with an extraordinary appendage to the 

 lip, erect, whfte, fleshy, as long as the column, parallel with 

 that organ, and resembling the four fingers of the hand a 

 little hollowed out and closed together. This is quite a new 

 modification of structure. 



125. VANDA lamellata. 



V. lamellata ; foliis distichis coriaceis oblique et acute bidentatis, spica multi- 

 flora, sepalis petalisque obovatis obtusis undulatis iuferioribus subincurvis 

 majoribus, labello basi mammoso, limbo obcuneato retuso auriculato bila- 

 mellato pone apicem bituberculato. 



A fine species of epiphytal Orchidacese, received by Messrs. 

 Loddiges from Manilla. It has pale yellow flowers stained 

 with red, and as large as those of Vanda Roxburghi. The 

 lip with its two red elevated plates, and a pair of red tuber- 

 cles just below the apex, distinguishes this with certainty. 

 It has something the habit of Vanda spathulata, a common 

 and handsome East Indian species which no one seems yet 

 to have imported. 



126. ENTELEA palmata. 



E. palmata ; foliis palmatis cordatis cum caule tomentosis : laciniis oblongo- 

 rhombeis crenatis obtusis subtrilobis, umbellis pedunculitis foliis brevioribus, 

 petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis. 



A greenhouse shrub, occasionally occurring in collections 

 under the name of Sparmannia palmata, and which has no 

 doubt been so denominated in consequence of its resemblance 

 in habit to the old Sparmannia africana. Its native country 

 is unknown ; it grows about three or four feet high, and 

 bears umbels of rather small white flowers. The following 

 technical description of it will enable Botanists to register 

 the species. 



Frutex tomento brevi stellari viridi undique obductus. Folia petiolata, cordata, 

 palmata, 3 p. longa, crenata, laciniis insequaliter lobatis, subtrilobis. Stipules 

 subulatas, acutissimae, utrinque binae! vel teniae! et tunc inter se ineequales. 

 Pedunculi petiolis longiores, apice umbellam sub-12-floram rerentes, brac- 

 teolis 4-5 stipula?-formibus deciduis circuvndatam. Pedicelli supra medium 



