block of wood to which the name of " branch-orchid pot 



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patient of too much heat and moisture, and will probably be found to succeed in the 

 Mexican-house. 



Descr. Leaves thick and channeled, two or three clustered together, linear-lanceo- 



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lute, keeled, about six inches long. Scaj^e panicled and spreading, a foot or mure long, 

 loaded with almost innumerable flowers of delicate and" beautiful texture. Seimh 

 sharp-pointed, scarcely more than the eighth of an inch long. Petals rather \a ider than 

 the sepals, but otherwise conformable to them, white, i?^ very large, pubescent at its 

 base, and with two-lobed, rounded, apiculate limb, almost entirely white in some varie- 

 ties, while in others it bears on its disk either a patch of yellow or of purple, or of both 

 combined. Here it has two thin rounded auricles within the edge of the lip, and two 

 much more fleshy calli witliin the auricles themselves* Column upright, short, wingless. 



Fig. 1. Side view of labellum and colimm. 2. Front view of column. 3. Pollen-masses. 

 4. Front view of labollum :-— ma^??i//ef7. 



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