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A fresh flower of this pretty species has been sent me from 

 George Wailes, Esq., of Nevvcastle-on-Tyne, who received it 

 from the late Mr. Gardner, it having been found by that la- 

 mented botanist in an excursion to the river Parahyba in search 

 of Huntleya Meleagris. It appears, like that plant, to have a 

 one-flowered scape, and is not a species of mucli beauty. The 

 flowers, which smell of sweet-peas, are cream-coloured, and about 

 as large as those of Warrea cyanea. The sepals are all some- 

 what reflexed, the lateral not being straighter than the rest ; 

 the petals are also bent back, so that no arch can be formed 

 over the column. The lip is tinted with delicate violet along 

 the middle, is roundish, concave, wedge-shaped at the base, not at 

 all lobed, but so turned upwards at the edges as to look as if it 

 was furnished with basal auricles. Its appendage consists of 

 five slender radiating violet fingers, wdiich are perfectly free from 

 the lip except at their origin ; at their sides the edge of the lip 

 is also furnished with a thin, linear, inflexed membrane. The 

 column and pollen masses are those of W. discolor. 



8. Warrea discolor. 



W. discolor; scapo unifloro? apice bracteis 2 inaequalibus ovario 

 proximis quarum altera linearis, sepalis oblongis lateralibus 

 rectis deflexis canaliculatis supremo erecto apice revoluto, 

 petalis erectis oblongis apice revolutis, labello subrotundo 

 obsolete trilobo emarginato concavo appendice adnato sub- 

 rotundo-oblongo pectinate. 



Native country, Costa Rica. (Purchased by R. S. Holford, 

 Esq., at a sale of plants collected by Mr. Warcsiewitz.) 



A very distinct species, apparently one-flowered, the leaves, 

 &c., of which I have not seen. [Mr. Bassett, the gardener to 

 Mr. Holford, states that the habit is that of Huntleya violacea, 

 the leaves however being only about 5 inches long and 1 inch 

 wide.] The sepals, which are li inch long, are straw-co- 

 loured, the lower straight, concave, and deflexed, the upper 

 erect, rolled back at the point, pressed close to the petals, 

 and witli them forming an arch over the column and lip. The 

 petals are straw-coloured at the base, dull purple at the upper 

 part. The lip has a nearly circular outline, but is so con- 

 cave as not to present that form until flattened ; it is slightly 

 3-lobed, of a deep, dull, velvety purple colour, with, at the base, 

 a roundish oblong yellow appendage, wliich adheres to the lip, 

 and is divided at tlie edge into strong diverging teeth, five of 

 Avhich terminate so many distinct ribs. The column is yellow, 



