4 IM,F.lTROTTTALLIS. 



A very attractive species with small milk-white floweis that are 

 produced freely in the autumn months. Nothing certain appears to 

 bo known of its origiii, beyond the fact that it was originally in the 

 collection of the late Mr. Wilson Saunders at Reigate, whence it 

 passed to the Botanic Garden at Hamburg. It was also in cul- 

 tivation in our Chelsea Nursery some years ago, and is believed to 

 have been sent to us from Costa Rica, by Endres. The notice of 

 it in this place may tend to preserve it from oblivion. 



P. picta. 



A densely-tufted dAvarf plant. Leaves lincar-spathulate, 1 — 2 inches 

 long. Peduncles thread-like, erect, as long again as the leaves, loosely 

 racemose above. Flowers small but beautifully coloured ; sepals yellow 

 streaked with red, the upper one ovate-lanceolate, acute, the connate 

 lateral two similar, bifid at the tip ; petals and lip very minute, the 

 former linear-lanceolate acute, the latter oblong-obtuse, furrowed. 



Pleurotliallis picta, Liudl. in Bot. Reg. XXI. sub. t. 1797 (183G). Id. t. 1825. 



Id. Fol. Orch. Pleur. No. 222. Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), ]). 431. P. suriiiam- 



ensis, Focke in Miquel's Stirpes Surinam, t. 646. 



Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from Demerara in 18o4, and 

 occasionally met with in cultivation since. It is closely allied to 

 the equally interesting Pleurothallis Grohiji from the same country, 

 which appears to be lost to cultivation ; the P. /: icta of the 

 Botanical Magazine, tab. o897, is a totally different species, viz., 

 P. stnqiifoJia (Lindl.). " Although a Pleurothallis — and it might be 

 a very unfortunate thing to be a Pleurothallis — P. ficta is really a 

 little gem, its numerous racemes of bright yellow and red flowers 

 being very attractive." * 



P. punctulata. 



Stems about 2 inches high, slightly two-angled. Leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong, sub-acute, narrowed below into a short petiole, blade 3 — 3| inches 

 long, erect, exceedingly stiff and leathery, glaucous on the back. Peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves, sheathed at the base by a whitish tubular 

 spathe, one-flowered. Flowers If inches across the sepals when spread 

 out ; upper sepal broadly lanceolate, acute, light yellow spotted with 

 brown-purple ; lateral sepals " connate into a concave, oblong body, 

 the minute acute points only free," coloured like the upper one ; petals 

 broadly lanceolate, one-third as long as the upper sepals, light vinous red 

 with brown-purple spots ; lip oblong, obtuse, concave, papillose above, 

 deep maroon-purple. Column terete with two minute cirri at the apex. 

 Pleurothallis punctulata, Eolfe in Gard. Chron. IV. s. 3 (1889), p. 756. 



* Gard. Chron. loc. cit. supra. 



