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It has been imported abundantly by the Horticultural Society 

 from Mexico, and has flowered both in their garden and with 

 Messrs. Loddiges. It is very handsome, and well worth 

 growing. 



57. ONCIDIUM Wraijce; pseuclobulbis ovatis compressis sulcatis, foliis 2 

 terminalibus lineari-lanceolatis, scapo radical! elongate- ramoso, floi'ibus 

 paniculatis, petalis sepalisque conformibus ovato-acurainatis patentibus 

 ferrugineo maculatis, labello unicolori late cuneato-obovato 3-lobo cris- 

 tate-, crista elevata acute triloba. Botanical Magazine, t. 3854. 



A Mexican species introduced by Mrs. Wray of Oakfield, 

 and very handsome. This would seem to be new, but is 

 evidently very near O. reflexum, Wentworthianum and Tay- 

 leurii. The figure in the Botanical Magazine, by which alone 

 I know it, is so evidently inaccurate in those minute but 

 important details, a correct knowledge of which is indispen- 

 sable in this large and difficult genus, that it is not easy to 

 place any confidence in it. 



58. DENDROCHILUM glumaceum; spica conica, elongata, apice nutante, 

 bracteis imbricatis disticbis gluniaceis, sepalis petalisque acuminatis, 

 columna apice pectinata dentibus lateralibus sequali, labelli trilobi basi 

 bilamellati lobis lateralibus abbreviatis inflexis acutis intermedio orbi- 

 culari. 



A singular Orchidaceous plant looking very much, both 

 in foliage and flowers, like a grass. Indeed, before the latter 

 expand, and while they are still covered over by the bracts, 

 one would not suspect the plant to be any thing else. Mr. 

 Cumming found it in the Philippines, and Messrs. Loddiges 

 have flowered it. The blossoms are a pale watery green. 



59. MAXILLARIA Candida (G. Loddiges in litt.); pedunculis radicalibus 

 unifloris, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis, labello oblongo obso- 

 lete trilobo medio furfuraceo ad incisuram unicalloso : lobo medio ovato 

 obtuso denticulato. 



A little Brazilian plant of small beauty. The flowers are 

 white and about as large as those of M. ochroleuca. It is 

 distinguished readily by the whole inside of the lip being 

 covered with a fine deciduous mealiness. It flowered at 

 Hackney with Messrs. Loddiges. 



