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drooping slightly branched racemes, which spring from the 

 base of the bulbs, and bear numerous flowers of a beautiful 

 waxy appearance, bright rose in colour, and produced in 

 summer and autumn, lasting several weeks in perfection. — 

 Peru ; Ecuador. 

 'Em.—Bot. Mag., t. 5627 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 196. 



M. vulcanicum, Rchb. f. — A very pretty species, differing 

 from M. sangidneum in having erect instead of drooping 

 flower spikes. The pseudobulbs are ovoid, compressed, and 

 more or less two-edged, with oblong keeled bluntish leaves 

 three to five inches long, and unilateral racemes of flowers on 

 a slender erect peduncle, the flowers about two inches across, 

 of a dark bright rose colour, from twelve to twenty on a spike, 

 and producing a charming effect since they remain in full 

 beauty for a considerable time ; the lip, which is three-lobed, 

 the side lobes roundish and the middle one emarginate, is 

 in the front part of the same bright rose as the sepals and 

 petals, but becomes paler on the disk, where there is a 

 four-keeled callus. — Eastern Peru. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6001. 



MiCEOSTYLIS, Niittall. 

 {Tribe Epidendreae, subtribe Malaxese.) 



A genus of terrestrial Orchids of dwarf habit, sometimes 

 pseudobulbous, the stems bearing near the base several hand- 

 somely coloured plicate leaves, and terminating in a spike of 

 very small flowers. There are many species known, and they 

 are widely dispersed in Europe, Asia, and America ; but those 

 in cultivation are mostly tropical, and deserve a place with the 

 Ancectochili, being all interesting to those who desire to have 

 a general collection. 



Culture. — The same as that of Anaictochilus, which see. 



M. calopliylla, Rchb. f. — A distinct and handsome species, 

 with ornamental foliage. The leaves are oval lanceolate 

 acuminate, prettily undulated, four to six inches long, two 

 to two and a half inches broad, greenish brown in the centre, 

 and having a broad margin of pale greyish green, which is 



