As a genus, Mesospinidium comes near to Odontoglossum, from which a superficial 



observer might fail to distinguish 



Professor "Reichenbach, the founder of 



would also make it embrace the genera ' Ada ' and ' Abola ' of Lindley, a view in which 

 I find myself at present unable to concur. 



Desce. An epiphyte, with compressed, prettily-mottled oval two-leaved pseudohidhs. 



Leaves liarulat 



& 



branched Jli 



sharp-pointed, shorter than the many-flow 



Bracts minute 



drooping, slightly- 



like. Sepals oblong, acute, the side 



jomed at the base— for more than half their length. Petals cuneate, ovate, acute of 



firm waxy substance, and (like the sepals) of a uniform warm 



osy 



lA^ ling 



sharp-pointed, its sides erect, its middle lobe recurved, with a two-limbed diverging p 



the base 



The lip at its point is of the same rosy 



as 



but fades into white in its lower por 



pals and petal 



Column white, slightly lobed 



Fig. 1. Side view of lip and column. 2. Front view of lip. 3. Ditto of column. 4. Pollen- 

 masses : — magnificcl. 



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