284? Floricultural and Bota7iical Notices, 



the most curious that Dr. Lindley is acquainted with. {Bot. Reg.i 

 April.) 



■\-SpecHm\a cilidris Lindl. A small plant, resembling a le- 

 panthes, with purplish-green leaves, and dull green spotted 

 flowers. Imported from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges. [Bot, 

 Beg., April.)^ 



S. orhiciddris Lindl. resembles the preceding in habit, but 

 with more purple both in the leaves and flowers. Imported by 

 Messrs. Loddiges from Demerara. [Bot. Beg., April.) 



-{•2537. MaxiUuria variabilis *var. unipunctdta Lindl. A sin- 

 gular little epiphyte; but " scarcely more than a yellow-flowered 

 variety of M. variabilis." [Bot. Beg., March.) 



+ 2.539. Pleurothdllis *circumplexa Lindl. A curious new spe- 

 cies, from Mexico, by Messrs. Loddiges ; which, as it flowered 

 in February last, will doubtless soon be figured. [Bot. Beg., 

 March.) 



+ P. ophiocephala Lindl. A most curious Mexican species, in 

 the possession of Messrs. Loddiges, and also of Mr. Barker of 

 Birmingham. Flowers dull yellowish brown, spotted with purple. 

 {Bot. Beg., May.) 



3445. CORYA'NTHES [Paxt. mag. of bot. v. p. 31. 



*inacrantha Hook, large-flowered ^ E! cu 1 ... Och sp Dl.P Caraccas .„ D fib. s.p 



An epiphyte, with the pseudo-bulbs strongly furrowed, and 

 with flowers of a form so extraordinary, that no description can 

 give any thing like a correct idea of them. When the plant 

 flowered at Chatsworth, in 1837, " wonder and surprise were 

 created in all who had an opportunity of seeing it." In colour, 

 the sepals are an ochry yellow, spotted with dull purple; and 

 the two lateral ones look something like " bat's wings half at 

 rest." There is another part of the flower in Mr. Paxton's fi- 

 gure which bears some resemblance to a human skull, supported 

 by a vertebral column, very distinctly marked. Dr. Lindley, in 

 the Botanical Begistcr, p. 1841., describes this plant as having the 

 habit of a stanhopea or a gongora ; and Mr. Paxton says the 

 culture is the same as for these genera; viz., " in potting, use 

 fibrous sandy peat, with plenty of drainage ; build the bulk of 

 the soil a trifle above the level of the pot, in consequence of the 

 pendulous nature of the flexuous scape. In the spring, when 

 the young buds begin to swell, let it have plenty of water and 

 heat, and it will grow and flower very freely." [Paxt. Mag. of 

 Bot., March.) 



2554. EPIDE'NDRUM 

 22741a *lacerum Lindl. lacerated ^ [Z3 cu 3 n.d Pk Havannah 183j D p.r.w. 



Nearly allied to E. elongatum, but of a more lax and slender 

 habit. Sent by Captain Sutton to Sir Charles Lemon, in whose 

 collection, at Carclew, it flowered during November and Decem- 

 ber, 1837. {Bot. Beg., March.) 



