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They have a cylindrical tube an inch long, which is deep 

 crimson-purple above and rosy lilac beneath ; the dorsal 

 sepal is filiform, two and a half inches long, bent down closely 

 over the lateral ones, which are semiovate, with an attenuated 

 point as long as the dorsal one, and of a bright rose colour, 

 the attenuated tail-like portion being crimson-purple. — Peru. 

 Fig.— Gard. Chron., N.S., siii. 681, figs. 117, 118 ; Id., xvi. 337, fig. 63. 



M. ScMimii, Linden. — A very rare and distinct species, pro- 

 ducing as many as from six to eight secund long-stalked flowers 

 on a tall scape, each flower issuing from a bluntish sheathing 

 bract. The plant is of stoutish habit, the stalked oblong 

 leaves narrowed to the base being a foot long and three inches 

 broad. The flowers are handsome and dissimilar ; the dorsal 

 sepal is considerably smaller than the others, with a triangular 

 base, soon narrowing into the thickish tail ; the lateral ones 

 are more oblong, suddenly narrowing into tails of about two 

 inches long. The colour is a reddish brown, with yellow tails 

 and dorsal sepal ; on closer inspection the inner and upper 

 part of the lateral sepals may be seen to be also yellow, but 

 covered with innumerable small reddish brown spots, while 

 the petals are white, and the lip yellowish spotted over with 

 reddish brown. It flowers during the winter months — 

 November to February in its wild habitats — and was first 

 flowered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. — Colombia : 

 Merida. 

 'FiG.—Gard. Chron., N.S., xix. 532, fig. 80. 



M. SMttlewortMi, Bchb. f. — A very free-flowering and 

 beautiful species, with tufts of elHptic-oblong subacute three 

 to five-nerved leaves about four to five inches high, and scapes 

 of nearly the same height, bearing each a comparatively large 

 flower, which has a very short gibbous tube, and a suberect 

 somewhat hooded dorsal sepal of a pale yellowish colour tinted 

 with pale rosy red, and marked with several wine-coloured 

 nerves, the obliquely ovate decurved lateral sepals rose- 

 coloured, thickly studded with deep reddish purple spots ; all 

 three sepals are contracted, the dorsal one suddenly, and the 

 lateral ones more gradually into tails about three times their 

 own length, which are green at the base, changing to orange- 

 yellow towards the tips. It blossoms during the spring and 

 summer months. — United States of Colombia. 

 Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 5 ; Bot, Mac/., t. 6372. 



