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arising from a scaly gemma. Head of flowers globose, rather deep yellow. Flowers crowded. Calyx turbinate, five- 
lobed, with spreading hairs in the upper half; the lobes short, very obtuse, Corolla four-lobed ; lobes concave, ovate, 
erect. Stamens numerous. Style rather longer than the stamens.— Bot. Mag., 53. 
557. SCELOCHILUS Orrowis. Klotzsch. An orchidaceous, stemless, bulbless epiphyte, from the 
Caraccas. Flowers yellow, with a few red streaks. Introduced into the Berlin Garden. (Fig. 274.) 
is not a little singular that this rather pretty Orchid, although received in Berlin from the Caraceas in the year 
1840, should never have found its way into our Gardens. in the hope of drawing some attention to it we reproduce the 
“This small Epiphyte has, with vd E of the 
flowers, entirely the structure of Oncidium carthaginense, but 
the leaves are only five inches long an id ùi one inch and a ‘half 
broad. The flower-spike is a little eet slightly longer . 
than the leaf, taper, thread-like, smooth, a 
sessile, dry, membranaceous, lane d acuminate 
brac he flowers are short-stalked, yellow, compressed, 
7 lin. long. The column is without colou ce as short as 
the floral envelopes. It was introduced in the year 1840 
into the Botanic Garden of Berlin by Mr. Edward Otto. 
He discovered it upon the Silla of Caraccas, 5600 feet above 
the level of the sea, in thick woods, on the trunks of trees. 
sun. It produced - "ue yellow flowers for the first time 
in the month of Jul 
Shortly swarê it was republished in the work above 
quoted with an excellent figure, and the following amended 
character : 
e اس‎ eee in Otto et Dietrich Garten- 
vea 1841, p. 3 ee * Perigonii conniventis foliola exte- 
gusta, cularia, carinata, basi subcohzerentia, 
denen labello melita in unicum connata, basi in ealear 
obtusum, breve producta ; interiora wisi libera. Label- 
lum integrum, supra basin E continuum, basi brevis- 
sime bifidum, liberum, disco calloso, العا‎ longitudina- 
liter ا‎ antice bidentato, denti s obtusis, conniven- 
tibus ; costis infra medium bicornutis ; duit. apice emar- 
lum: 
RE caudicula lineari instructa, glandula parva, 
E caracasana, epiphyta ; osea ceespi- 
i pecudobulbis bb ; ; foliis solitariis, coriaceis, 
, basi vaginis squameefo — papie dani invo- 
عم‎ racemo radicali ; xà ribus mpressis, flavidis. 
5.0 
rvis ; ra , foliis 0 
foliolis perigonii interioribus obov inda, SPI, intus longi- 
tudinaliter purpureo-striatis, sparsim pilosis." 
The genus forms one of a small group among Morse 
Orchids, to which it has been proposed elsewhere to giv 
the name of Ionopsips, a: consisting of RS o 
Comparettia and Trichocentrum. Of these Comparettia fa known e its do 
figured by 2 PPE» although a mere puzzle, at all events must be 
spurred auriculate lip, and distinct ecalearate lateral sepals ; Zo onopsis has a rostrate stigma, the pollen-masses of 
Oncidium, and a ‘tent habit ; Burlingtonia has a column with a pair of long arms, arms, and the flowers of Rodriguezia ; 
the latter has no spur to the sepals, ears on its column, and a free lip not rolled up in the lower sepals. It is however to 
