MOEMODES PARDINUM. 



[Plate 330.] 



J^ativ6 of Mexico, 



Epiphytal. Pseudohul b s' turbinate, or fusiform, from three to six inches high, 

 and bearmg on the apex several narrowly-lanceolate leaves, which are from a foot 

 to eighteen inches long, gradually acuminate, membraneous, [ind strongly ril)bcd. 

 ledimcle springing from the base of the pseudobulb, and bearing a nodding, many- 

 flowered raceme, a foot or more long. Sepals and petals nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate 

 acute, spreading at the base, their points conniving, ground colour yellow, over which 

 IS spread a profusion of rich brownish crimson spots; lip three-lobed, lateral lobes 

 acute, ^ middle lobe elongate acuminate, all of a rich yellow, freely spotted with 

 brownish crimson. 



MoRMODES PARDINUM, Batemcin, in Orchids of Mexico and Gnatemala, t 14. ; 

 Knowles and Wescott's Floral Cabinet, t. 113; Botanical Magazine, t. 3,900; 

 Williams, Orchid~Gro weir's Manned, 6 ed., p. 417. 



Cyclosia maculata, Klotzscli. 



This genus is nearly allied to Catasetum, a section of the Orchid family which 

 IS not so universally popular as it deserves to be. Mormodes contains a considerable 

 number of species, very few of which, however, are known to cultivators ; descriptions 

 01 some of the kinds more generally grown may be found in the sixth edition of the 

 Orchid- G^^ower' s Manual, page 416. The majority of the species are well deserving 

 the attention of Orchid growers ; but this beautiful plant, although introduced forty 

 years ago, is very seldom to be seen, even in the choicest collections. It is 

 of a peculiar habit of growth, forming thick and fleshy bulbs, which are deciduous. 

 The flowers much resemble those of the genus Catasetum, but differ from them in 

 being destitute of the ciiThi upon the column, in the lip being membraneous, and in 

 the pollen masses being four, instead of two, also in various other minor details. 

 These plants were more diligently searched for and cultivated a few years ago, 

 when Orchids were neither so plentiful or so popular as they are at the present 

 time. We have seen many specimens exhibited at the floral gatherings in London, 

 and we hope again to see them become fashionable ; for there is cpiite sufficient of 

 the weird and beautiful in them to excite the curiosity of all lovers of nature, and 

 to establish them in the ranks of favourite plants. Our drawing was taken from 

 a finely grown plant in the select collection of Orchids cultivated by O. W. Law- 

 Schofield, Esq., New-Hall-Hey, Rawtenstall, near Manchester. It was grown in 

 tbe East India house, where it grew freely, and flowered profusely. 



