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petals, the lip bearing 011I3' a few obscure pallid markings on 

 the sides. — New Grenada. 



M. Colossus, Rchb. /. — A very effective species of large 

 growth, the stems subterete, tapering upwards, sometimes a 

 foot long, with elliptic ovate plaited leaves, and a stout 

 radical scape a foot long, bearing a raceme a foot long of 

 large spreading flowers five to six inches across, with narrow 

 lanceolate acuminate sepals and petals, of which the lower 

 part is pink with darker pink veins, and the upper half 

 yellow, and the lip is bright yellow dotted with pink at the 

 base, much incurved, with the edges revolute, meeting at the 

 back, and the green arching column is twisted to one side as 

 usual. It is a most singular and wonderful plant. — Central 

 America, elevation 7,000 feet. 



Fm.—Bot. Mag., t. 5840. 

 Stn, — M. macranthum, 



M. luxatum, LimUey. — A very handsome species, and also 

 a very singular one, in which the distortion of the flower 

 peculiar to the genus seems carried to its extreme limit, the 

 whole flower — not only the lip and column, which are the 

 parts usually afi'ected — appearing as if all its members had 

 been dislocated. Notwithstanding this it is a plant of much 

 beauty. The stems are short, terete, and tapered upwards, 

 the plicate lanceolate leaves three feet long, and the flowers 

 on radical scapes in oblong racemes much shorter than the 

 leaves, very fragrant, three inches or more in diameter, lemon- 

 yellow, fleshy, and rather globular, but so distorted that the 

 parts are not easily recognised, excepting that the lip has a 

 deep brown streak down the middle, and covers the column 

 like a hood. It blooms in July, lasting in bloom a couple of 

 weeks or more. — Mexico. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 33 ; Moore, III. Orch. PI, Mormodes, t. 3. 



M. pardinimi, Bateman. — This very beautiful species is 

 unfortunately seldom seen in collections. The stems are 

 terete and tapering, three to six inches high, with several 

 lanceolate membranaceous leaves from their upper end, and 

 from their base the nodding flower scapes a foot or more in 

 length, furnished with a crowded raceme ; the sepals and 

 petals are ovate-lanceolate acuminate, spreading at the base, 

 but with their points all directed upwards so as to be almost 

 connivent ; they, as well as the three-lobed lip, are bright 



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