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We copy the annexed figure from the ne plantarum, rariorum Horti Botanici Berolinensis of Link, vnda and 
Otto; itrepresents very well the lower part of the long slender spike of a plant of mere botanieal interest, which 
Dr. Klotzsch believes to be the tp وج‎ mug ad of Humboldt. He says that he has compared it with the 
original specimens, and is unable to perceive the least difference. To this we can offer no objection; but we 
are obliged to add that it is most ‘certainly 
not the N. punctata of e d 
its long slender spike, and in the absence 
of that eallus on the lip by which N. 
d. 
enumerating those we are acquainted with 
They are much alike, but vary in the form 
of their lip, in the size of their flowers, in 
the presence or absence of a lip-tubercle, 
er. 
2. N. tenuis Lindl., in Bot. Reg., 1838; 
(aliàs Pleurothallis sagittifera H.B.K., 
according to Klotzsch, and therefore N 
multiflora Lindl. ; and — the 
plant figured cna that name by Sir 
W. Hooker in the em pias of 
Botany, ed m. tI 
3. N. incurva ed! in Bot. Reg., 
ma misc. - 167. 
4. N. ede Id., 1838, mise, 168. 
5. N. rantha Id. 
6. N. pubescens Zd., 1842, mise. 72. 
7. N. aromatica Jd., 1941, mise. 77. 
8. N. bicolor Zd., ín Plant. Hartweg., 
no. ape 
trisepala sp. now. digne gracili 
"s ‘uae 
bus, sepalis clausis disjunctis, labello 
0 
M. Van ; native 
unknown. The are almost 
white. 
10. N. Tridachne (aliàs Tridachne 
virens mn); sepalis lateralibus 
o connatis labello 
1 
acuminato basi angustato ecalloso.— This was received by the Horticultaral debel, from Mr. Weilbach of ee. ; 
ahd is remarkable for the EVEN of its sepals into two, instead o f three ; the petals are yellow, with one or two pale 
orange bands ; the lip is clear yell 
It is pohiti ae N. Hage, a 7 = Nov. gen. et sp. plant. p. 3, a work oe since this was => 
the same as the present species. We find it thus defined from a Mexican ee tia the garden of Baron Charles 
v. Hugel :—« Peeudobulbi "uu inim compressi minuti. Folia solitaria cor Engestormia planiuseula, subtus basi 
carinata. Racemus radicalis pendulus multiflorus, pedicellis bractea ia k triplo, flore triente e E 
recurvo-patulis, Perigonii viridi-flavi foliola externa lateralia labello supposita in unum apice tnt MM, Dm 
superiore sublongiore lineari-lanceolata acuta ecarinata navicularia apice recurva ; interna ieri ae dimidio 
angustiora lineari-subfaleata acuminata medio superposite aurantico-bi-v. quadripunctata. Labellum porrectum 
unguiculatum trullæforme integerrimum acutum apice subincurvum." 
