No, 496... 
LIMODORUM MACULATUM. 
Class. Order. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
In external habit this plant resembles 
the Epidendrums. It has a somewhat an- 
gular, flattened bulb, ending in a single 
leaf from four to six inches in length, of a 
thick, rigid consistence, and elegantly va- 
riegated with irregular branching marks or 
spots. The scape rises from the under part 
of the bulb: it is nearly a foot in height, 
bearing five or six flowers, which are shaped 
like some of the > gp the labellum 
being furnished with a sp Our friend 
Mr. Lindley remarked > us the affinity 
which this curious plant has to Limodorum 
falcatum, of Thunberg Icones 6, to which 
genus we have for the present appended it. 
The astonishing diversity of form in parts 
of the flowers in this class renders it difficult 
to assign to each its permanent station, es- 
pecially as every day is bringing new ones 
to light, thus often rendering a new arrange- 
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