78 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



" always growing in the ground, and never upon trees." (B. M. R. t 

 Dec, No. 174.) 



+ M.fovcata Lindl. Flowers of a straw colour, with a faint, 

 not unpleasant, smell. From Demerara, by Messrs. Loddiges. 

 (B. M. R., 1839, No. 2.) 



-{■Ccclogyne JVallichiana Lindl. This curious species has also 

 been sent home by Mr. Gibson. " It has large, handsome, 

 scentless, deep rose-coloured flowers, growing close to the ground, 

 from within some hard tuberculated sheaths proceeding from the 

 base of depressed, flask-shaped, green and. purple speckled 

 pseudo-bulbs. In its native country this and allied species 

 cover the ground with a pavement of their curious stems, which 

 wither up in the dry season, but change into a brilliant carpet 

 of rosy flowers on the approach of rain." {B. M. R., Nov., 

 No. 157.) 



-\-C.ovalis Lindl. Some dried specimens of this species in Dr. 

 Wallich's Indian herbarium, Dr. Lindley observes, he mistook, 

 some years since, for C. fimbriata : but lately a plant sent by 

 Dr. "Wallich to Messrs. Loddiges has flowered, which proves 

 to be different. (B. M. R., Dec, No. 171.) 



-\-Pleurothallis xmiscbidea Lindl. This is the smallest orchida- 

 ceous plant known. " It has no stem, the leaves are two lines 

 and a half long; and the peduncle is as fine as a hair, and about 

 four lines long." The colours of the flower are purple and 

 orange." (B. M. R., Dec, No. 165.) 



4- P. stenopetala G. Lodd. A pretty species, with pale green 

 and crimson flowers, a native of Brazil, " very near P. sclero- 

 phylla." {B. M. R., Dec, No. 182.) 



-f P. pectinata Lindl. This is a very curious species, resem- 

 bling P. prolifera in habit, a native of Rio Janeiro. " The flowers 

 are sea-green, with a few deep purple spots at the base of the 

 labellum." (B. M. R., Jan. 1839, No. 1.) 



-h P. strupifblia Lindl. A native of Rio. " The leaves are 

 like leathern thongs, and full 18 in. long. The flowers are dull 

 purple and white." {B. M. R., Jan. 1839, No. 3.) 



Qitekettm microscopica Lindl. " A very singular little plant, 

 with the habit of a Pleurothallis, and the pollen masses of a 

 vandeous orchidacea; more nearly allied to Rodriguezm than 

 to any thing else, but quite different in habit." The plant is only 

 a few inches high, and has no beauty unless examined with a 

 microscope. It forms the type of a new genus, named by Dr. 

 Lindley in honour of E. J. Quekett, Esq., F.L.S. ;" an excel- 

 lent botanical observer, and one of our most skilful vegetable 

 anatomists. (B. M. R., Jan. 1839, No. 6.) 



+ LcB^lm albida Lindl. The flowers are white, 2 in. across, 

 and sweet-scented, with a yellow streak down the centre of the 

 lip, and a few crimson dots at its base. It is a native of the 

 environs of Oaxaca, whence it was imported by Mr. Bateman. It 



