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yellow, spotted with rich brovmisli crimson, so that the 

 flowers have quite a gay appearance. — Mexico. 



'Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3900 ; Batem. Orch. Mesc. et Guat., t. 14 ; Knowles cj- 

 Westc. Floral Cab., t. 113. 

 Syn. — Cyclosia maculata. 



M. pardinuni unicolor, Hooker. — This variety differs from 

 the type only in having the flowers wholly of a clear lemon 

 yellow without any trace of spotting, and is by so much the 

 less ornamental of the two, though its self-coloured flowers 

 are not ineffective. — Mexico. 



SlQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 3879. 



Syn. — M. citrinum ; Catasetwn citrinum. 



M. uncia, Bchb.f. — The handsomest and most noble of all 

 the Monnodes, distinguished by its broadly fusiform some- 

 what two-edged stems or pseudobulbs, about three inches 

 high, its elongate lanceolate ribbed leaves a foot to a foot and 

 a half long, and its many-flowered pendulous raceme of large 

 flowers, which are two and a half inches in diameter, whitish 

 externally, and within of a pale yellow, entirely covered with 

 oblong dark crimson spots rather smaller and more dot-like 

 near the margin. The sepals and petals are concave, an inch 

 across, ovate acute, and the lip is curved upwards with a 

 linear fleshy base dilated gradually into a saccate orbicular 

 apex, the base dark purple, the inner surface yellow spotted 

 with red, the exterior spotted like the sepals except at the 

 tip, which is lilac. The flowers have an aromatic odour. 



YiG.— Bot. Mag.,_t. 5802. 

 Syn. — M. Greenii. 



MONOCHILUS, WalUch. 

 {Tribe Neottieae, suUribe Spkanthese.) 



A small genus of terrestrial tropical Orchids, included by 

 Bentham under Zeuxine, but kept distinct both by Lindley 

 and Reichenbach. It differs from Ancectochihis in the absence 

 of a spur, and in the adhesion of the lip with the column, and 

 from Zeuxine in its long membranous split lip. It contains a 

 few species only, which are natives of India and Ceylon. 



Culhire. — It requires the general treatment oi Anvectochilus, 



