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Mexico ; but 1 have no doubt that it will become much 

 larger, and more abundantly furnished with flowers. The 

 latter are very handsome ; having the sepals and petals 

 richly blotched with brown, upon a yellowish green ground, 

 while the lip is white, with the crest at the base purplish, 

 and the apex spotted and blotched with rich brown. It is 

 very different from any of the species previously described. 



91. EPIDENDRUM llvidum. 



E. lividum ; pseudobulbis angust^ ovalibus compressis diphyllis, foliis lineari- 

 lanceolatis subundulatis obtusiusculis, scapo terminali paucifloro foliis bre- 

 viore, ovario triquetro, sepalis erectis herbaceis linearibus mucronatis, petalis 

 spathulatis obtusis aequilongis, labello libera lineari-oblongo obtuso crispo 

 medio tomentoso serie triplici dentium elevatorum intermedia majore, co- 

 lumna. triquetra apice tricallosa. 



An obscure unattractive species, imported from Columbia 

 by Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are small, dull dingy 

 purple, a little tessellated ; their lip pale dirty yellow, with 

 a few dull purple veins. 



92. ONCIDIUM confragosum. 



O. confragosum ; pseudobulbosum ; scapo simplici glaucescente apice nutante, 

 sepalis ovatis acuminatis undulatis lateralibus semiconnatis, petalis majoribus 

 oblongis undulatis acutis, labelli lobis lateralibus nanis recurvis intermedio 

 unguiculato altt: bilobo subangulato reniformi: disco maximo digitato confra- 

 goso, columnar alis rotundatis denticulatis. 



A native of Mexico, whence it was imported by George 

 Barker, Esq. The flowers are of just the same colour as O. 

 stramineum, for which the species might be mistaken upon a 

 casual examination; the colour is a very delicate straw, faintly 

 spotted with pale purple. 



93. MICROSTYLIS excavata. 



M. excavata ; floribus corymbosis, scapo hexagono, petalis filiformibus reflexis, 

 labello ovato carnoso basi acutissime sagittato medio utrinque alte excavato 

 apice tridentato dente intermedia majore. 



A green-flowered Orchidaceous plant, resembling M. 

 ophioglossoides, but with a corymbose inflorescence. It was 

 imported by Mr. Barker from Mexico. 



