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fine large flowers in a one-sided manner. They are nearly 2^ 

 inches long and about 1^ inch wide, so that they present to the 

 eye a somewhat narrowed appearance. This is owing to the 

 form of the lip, which is pure bright yellow, with a long stalk to 

 the transverse 2-lobed middle segment. The sepals and petals 

 are greenish-yellow, spotted with brown. 



We have no Oncidium in cultivation to which this bears much 

 resemblance. It is, however, apparently allied to the O. macro- 

 pterum of Richard and Galeotti, if any judgment can be formed 

 from the slight specific character of it, published in the ' Annales 

 des Sciences.' In that plant, however, the column-wings are said 

 to be extremely broad (latissimse), and no allusion is made to the 

 very remarkable length of the stalk of the middle lobe of the lip. 



Sept. 11, 1846. 



52. Fuchsia tetradactyla.* 

 Guatemala; G. U. Skinner, Esq., April 4, 1846. 



A slender downy plant about 2 feet high, with very soft 

 branches of a dull crimson colour. The leaves are opposite, 

 about 27 inches long, half of which belongs to their stalks, 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, a little blistered in consequence of their 

 lateral veins being much sunken. The flowers, which are small, 

 and deep rose colour, grow singly in the axils of the leaves. 

 The calyx is half an inch long ; the petals much shorter and 

 paler than the lobes of the calyx, flat, blunt ; and the stamen=i 

 much shorter than the petals ; the style longer than all, with a 

 large star-shaped stigma divided into four fleshy finger-like rays. 

 It is nearly allied to F. thymifolia and cylindrica. 



It appears to be a greenhouse plant. As yet it has been 

 grown in sandy peat, but there is reason to believe that it will 

 succeed under the same treatment as those numerous hybrids 

 which are to be seen during the summer in every greenhouse. 

 Like F. fulgens, it has a large fleshy root, so that in autumn it 

 may be stowed away in any corner, where it may be kept com- 

 paratively dry and free from frost till spring. 



Its flowers are, however, too small to render it interesting to 

 any except botanists. 



July A, 1846. 



* F. (Encliandra) tetradactyla ; tuberosa, gracilis, subherbacea, leviter 

 pubescens, foliis oppositis obovato-oblongis longe petiolatis ob veiias laterales 

 immersas subbullatis, peduufulis axillaribus solitariis unitloris petiolorum 

 longitudine, ovario spharico, floribus hermaphroditis, calycis laciniis trian- 

 gularibus patulis, petalis oblongis obtusis planis brevioribus, stamiiiibus 

 brevissimis, stylo piloso, stigiuate niaxiino tetradactylo. — J. L. 



