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texture, carinate below, and of a light green colour ; the scape is about half the 

 length of the leaves, single flowered ; the flowers about 1 inch across, with 

 broad semi-ovate, triangular spreading sepals of a creamy white profusely 

 spotted with blood-red, the point of each sepal being extended into a terete 

 tail-like point of the same blood-red colour as the spots, and measuring from 

 2 to 3 inches in length. It has been exhibited under the name of If. amabilis. — 

 Venezuela, elevation 8,000 feet. 

 Fia.— Flore des Serres, t. 2106. 



M. IGNEA, Rchh. /.—A very handsome and distinct species, with tufts of 

 elliptic obtuse leathery long-stalked leaves, about 6 inches high, and taller 

 graceful scapes, bearing large horizontal decurved flowers, fully 2 inches long, 

 with a curved sub-cylindrical tube, the dorsal sepal subulate from a broadish 

 base, deflexed between the elliptic-oblong lateral ones, the colour a bright 

 cinnabar red inside, the three nerves on each sepal marked by deeper crimson 

 lines. There are several varieties of this species, varying in size and in the 

 colour of their flowers. This plant when well grown forms a most beautiful 

 object, the colour being so distinct. . We saw a splendid specimen of it, 

 bearing over forty flowers, in Baron" Schroder's collection at Staines in the 

 month of January, 1884. — New Grenada. 



Via.—Bot. Mai/.,t. 5962 ; Florist and Pom., 1873, p. 169, with tab. ; nil. Bort., 3rd 

 ser., t. 333 ; Gard. 'Chron., 1872, p. 545, f . 140 ; Id., U.S., xvi. p. 305, f . 57 ; OrcJiid Album, 

 ii. t. 62 ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 15 ; Lindenia, v. t. 210 : VmtcWs 3Ian. Orch. PL, v. 

 p. 47. 



M. IGNEA AURANTIACA, WilUamis. — ^A distinct variety, having bright 

 orange-coloured flowers veined with vermilion. This forms a nice companion 

 to the other forms of the type, being unique in colour.— JVeiu' Grenada. 



M. IGNEA BODDAERTll.— See M. Boddaertii. 



M. IGNEA GRANDIFLORA, Williams. — A very large and handsome variety 

 having circular flowers of great substance ; the lateral sepals are bright 

 vermilion lined with crimson and suffused with purple. — New Grenada. 



M. IGNEA MASSANGEANA, Williams. — A large-flowered and distinct kind, 

 having bright orange-vermilion colotired flowers, flushed with rosy purple. 

 This variety was named in honour of M. D. Massange, Chatgau de Baillonville, 

 Marche, Belgium. — Neio Grenada. 



'Fia.— Orchid Album, vi. t. 273. 



M. INAEQUALIS, Bchh.f. — This, although one of the smaller-flowered species, 

 is nevertheless extremely pretty. It is allied to M. triangularis, and like that 

 has thin-textured flowers. The leaves are of the usual character; the flowers 

 have a somewhat cup-shaped tube, and well-expanded sepals, ornamented with 

 three slender tails upwards of an inch in length, the ground colour being 

 yellowish-white prettily spotted with purple. It is a desirable species for 

 basket culture. — Neio Grenada. 



• M. INFRACTA, Lindl. — Although not a very showy species, it is a very 

 pretty one, and cotild not be omitted from this enumeration. It was found 

 upwards of flfty years since on the Organ Mountains in Brazil, and more 



