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thick as a swan's, quill, greenish-red, decurved, bearing handsome flowers, which 

 are 4 inches in diameter, firm in texture, with oblong concave straw-coloured 

 sepals richly mottled with deep rose, very acute three-lobed petals of a brilliant 

 yellow barred with crimson, and- a lip which is yellowish at the point, otherwise 

 white speckled over with crimson. — Neiv Grenada. 



Syn. — PiipJiinia tigrina. ; v 



Fig.— nil. Hurt., t. 612. 



HUNTLEYA' — See Batemannia axd W«\iiscewiczella. 



lONOPSIS, Humboldt, ■ Bonpland, and Kunth. 

 QTribe Vandeae, suhtriie Oncidieae.) 

 A genus of limited extent, of epiphytal habit, the short slender 

 stems bearing thick narrow distichous sheathing leaves, and long slender 

 rigid peduncles which proceed from the top or upper parts of the stem, 

 and bear either simple racemes or panicles of flowers ; these have a broad 

 lip, which is prominent owing to tha length of its claw. They are of 

 Tropical American or West Indian origin. We specially recommend the 

 species named below. ' • ■' ' 



■ Culture. — These plants succeed best on a block with a little live 

 sphagnum moss round the roots, which require to be kept moist nearly 

 all the year round. We have found them do well in the coolest house, 

 suspended near the glass, 

 where they continue in 

 bloom for several weeks at 

 ■a time. They are difficult 

 plants to grow, for we seldom 

 see them continuing . to do 

 well — indeed we often find 

 ■them flowering themselves 

 to death. 



I. PANICULATA, Lindl.— 

 A charming small free-flower- 

 ing Orchid that ought to be 

 in every collection. The leaves 

 are 6 inches high, and proceed 

 from very slender stems which 

 scarcelyiormpseudobulbs; the 



■ flower scapes, which are 1^ foot ■ „ , , ^r n ™, 



high and branching, proceed from the axils of the leaves, the blossoms, pro- 

 dxfced twice a year, being of a pretty blush-white, the broad roundish bl-lobed 



lONOPSIS PANICULATA., 



