devoted to the subject, which will appear in the spring 

 of the following year, with illustrations drawn from the 

 admirable sketches of Mr. Bauer. 



The subject of the accompanying plate was raised in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from roots trans- 

 mitted from Mexico by Mr. John Brown. It grows in the 

 greenhouse, in a pot, coming up every year in the spring, 

 flowering for five or six weeks, and then dying down. The 

 inflorescence is remarkable, when it first appears, for its 

 very depressed state. The axis afterwards elongates ; and 

 what was at first an umbel, becomes a corymbose raceme. 

 In the figure this is pretty well shewn ; but the leaf is 

 represented too cordate, and the form of the labellum is, 

 as may be seen from the magnified figure, inaccurate. 



It is impossible to distinguish this from the M. ophio- 

 glossoides of North America, which is well figured in 

 Mr. Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet. It differs in its greater 

 stature, it is true, and also in the proportion borne by the 

 middle lobe of the labellum to the side ones ; but we doubt 

 whether the species of Orchid eous plants are to be charac- 

 terised by marks so slight as these. 



J. L. 



