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GLEANINGS AKD ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
Belongs to Orcliids. Blooms in January, (Kg, 150* a single flower^ four 
namely, P, juncifolia, with subulate leaves, from Mexico, not in Gardens, and P. fframinifoUay also a Mexican plant, 
mentioned in the Floral CahinH under the name of Nemac&nia (jrauiinifoUa* 
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29G. Oncidium batibati;a[. Limlley. A Brazilian Epiphyte ; with panicles of small yellow 
and brown floM'crs, 
times the natural si/e.) 
Received from Para by J. Kuowles, Esq., of Manchester. It is evidently the little-known plant figured thirty years 
flince in the Collectanea Botanica, and afterwards introduced by Mr. Gardner to the Glasgow Gardens, but apparently 
lost in the collections near London. It forms a small tuft of hard oblong one-ribbed pseudo-bulbs, having single oblong 
hard leaves much shorter than the branching stem. The flowers are yellow mottled with brown, and spotted with 
crimson on the lip. It differs fx'om 0, ciliatum in the petals being acuniinate, not obtuse or emarginate, in the middle 
lobe of the lip being smaller (sometimes very much smaller) than the lateral lobes, and in the central tubercles of the 
crest being fui'uislied with several smaller ones on each side, a circumstance overlooked in the figure by Mr. (now Sir 
Wilham) Hooker, published in the Collectanea. The following woodcut is accui'ate in tfiese important particulars. 
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