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This species is readily known by its very narrow acumi- 

 nate sepals and petals, erect column, and acuminate lip, 

 which is not carinate at the point. Its flowers are smaller 

 than those of N. incurva. Native of Demerara, Messrs. 

 Loddio-es. 



170. NOTYLIA micrantha. 



N. micrantha ; labello subsessili piano ovato acuto basi calloso, sepalis peta- 

 lisque linearibus acutiusculis, columna recta. 



The flowers of this are not more than half the size of the 

 smallest of the others ; they are pale green with a yellowish 

 lip, and the petals have no spots. Obtained from Demerara 

 by Messrs. Loddiges. 



171. CCELOGYNE ovafis. 



Covalis; pseudobulbis fusiformi-ovalibus striolatis, foliis geminis ovali-lanceo- 

 latis acutis spica sublongioribus, pedunculo basi vaginato sub-4-floro, brac- 

 teis concavis cartilagineis floribus longioribus, petalis linearibus reflexis, 

 labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus in fronte pectinatis intermedio ovato emar- 

 ginato pilis fuscis villoso et fimbriato, lamellis 2 elevatis crispis, columna 

 apice subintegra. 



In arranging the dried specimens in Dr. Wallich's Indian 

 herbarium some years since, I met with a plant, from Nepal 

 and Kamaon, without flowers, which I took for C. fimbriata, 

 and under that name it was eventually catalogued. Lately 

 however a plant of this species, sent by Dr. Wallich to 

 Messrs. Loddiges, has flowered, and proves, although very 

 near C. fimbriata, to be a different species. Its general 

 appearance is the same ; but the pseudo-bulbs are narrow 

 and oval, not roundish-oblong ; delicately striated, not 

 covered with a thick dull veinless cuticle. The flower is 

 twice the size, of nearly the same colour, but the margin of 

 the middle lobe is more decidedly shaggy with brown hairs, 

 and the two elevated lamellae which pass along its middle 

 from end to end are crisp, not straight. An opportunity 

 having occurred of examining fresh flowers of C. fimbriata 

 at the same time, it enabled me to amend the specific cha- 

 racter of that species, as follows : 



