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and form corresponding ridges on the outer surface. The 

 colours of the flowers are said to have a bluish metallic lustre, 

 like the plumage of some of the humming birds. This plant 

 s extremely rare. — New Grenada : Antioquia. 



Fig.— Xenia Orch., ii. t, 195 ; Bot. Mag., t. 6208 ; III. Hort., 3 ser., 1. 180 ; 

 Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 443. 



Stn.— J;/. Trochilus, M. Colibri. 



M. Estradse, Rchh. f. — A dwarf and exceedingly pretty 

 profuse-blooming species. Its densely-tufted leaves are eUiptie 

 oblong or spathulate, obtuse or bifid, coriaceous in texture, deep 

 green, about four inches long including the petioles. The scapes 

 are erect, slender, single-flowered ; the sepals are combined 

 at the base into a short campanulate tube, with a spreading 

 limb, nearly equal in size, the dorsal one oblong boat-shaped, 

 half an inch long, yellow in the lower and violet-purple in the 

 upper half, suddenly contracted into a yellow filiform tail an 

 inch long ; the lateral sepals are similar, but flatter, violet- 

 purple below and whitish above, each ending in a filiform 

 tail. The general efi"ect of the plant is very pleasing. It was 

 first observed in the garden of Dona Estrada, a lady of New 

 Grenada, who is described as a skilful grower of Orchids. — 

 New Grenada. 

 YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6171. 



M. Harryana, BcM. f. — A free-growing and very hand- 

 some species, which in its habit of growth resembles M. Lin- 

 deni, of which it is sometimes regarded as a variety, differing 

 in its colouring. It forms thick tufts of long-stalked nar- 

 rowly obovate-spathulate leathery leaves, eight or ten inches 

 long, and flowers of the richest blood-crimson on scapes 

 somewhat taller than the leaves. It is one of the handsomest 

 and most distinct species of this genus. The flowers are 

 three inches long, the sepals connate below into a decurved 

 subcylindrical tube, which is yellow, as is the throat, the 

 dorsal sepal crimson, filiform from a small triangular base 

 two inches long, the lateral ones nearly an inch wide, and 

 about two inches long, flat, semiovate, attenuate but not cau- 

 date at the apex, all of the richest blood-red suffused with 

 magenta. There are many varieties, varying in colour, in 

 shape, and in the size of the flowers. — New Grenada. 



YiG.— Florist and Pom., 1873, 169, with tab. ; Belg. Hort., 1873, t. 21 ; 

 Jllust. Hort., 3 ser., 1. 142 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5990 (as Lindeni) ; Flore des Serves, 

 t. 2250 ; Floral Mag., t. 655 (tube green) ; Id., 2 ser., t. 410, fig. 3. 



