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round. Caudiculse two. Gland transverse, crescent-shaped. 

 Pollen-masses two, each of which is divided into two distinct 

 parts. Anther one-celled, somewhat compressed and slightly 

 pubescent." 



" This species is very different in habit from the preceding. 

 It possesses a creeping rhizoma, which throws out ovate or 

 subcorneal pseudo-bulbs from its upper surface ; the leaves 

 are also much narrower, and the scape is of a pleasing purple 

 colour. In size and form the flowers nearly resemble those of 

 barbata, but are solitary and of a different colour. Maxil- 

 laria aweo-fulva, barbata and purpurascens possess double 

 caudiculse (as is the case also in the genus Bifrenaria) and 

 their inflorescence in other respects differs so much from that 

 of any other species of Maxillaria with which I am ac- 

 quainted, that they may be considered as forming a very dis- 

 tinct group of the genus. — Fred. Westcott." 



Introduced from Brazil for the Birmingham Horticultural 

 Society, by W. Fry, Esq. in 1840. This plant I have not seen 

 and do not recognize. 



143. EPIDENDRUM (Encyclium) tripunctatum ; pseudo-bulbis ovalibus 

 compressis diphyllis, foliis ligulatis tenuibus apice recurvis scapo bifloro 

 pluries longioribus, sepalis patentissimis lineari-oblongis, petalis duplo 

 angustioribus, labello semiadnato obovato rugoso utrinque ultra co- 

 lumnam emarginato, columna atropurpurea apice triloba et luteo tri- 

 punctata. 



For this very distinct new species I am indebted to Richard 

 Harrison, Esq. of Aighburgh. It has long grassy leaves, and 

 a very short two-flowered scape. The sepals are twice as 

 broad and much larger than the petals ; both of them are 

 widely spreading and a dull yellow green. The column is 

 deep purple, with three lobes, each of which is tipped with 

 one pale orange-coloured spot. The lip is rather more than 

 half an inch long, obovate, rugose, without being warted, and 

 distinctly emarginate near the apex of the column ; its colour 

 is pale citron. Ep. hastatum is the species to which this 

 seems to approach most nearly. 



144. POLYGONUM molle. Wallich cat. no. 1685. 



A half-shrubby herbaceous plant from the North of India, 

 introduced by the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India 



