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with rich brownish-crimson, so that the flowers have quite a gay appearance.— 



Mexico. 



yn, Fp-— -Stf!!. -Vrt//-. t- 3900 ; Bafeiii. Orrli. Mcx. ei Guat, t. 11 : Kmwles A- Westc. 

 Floral Cab., t. 113 ; OrelUd Album, vii. t. 330. 



Syx. — Cyclosia maculata. 



M. PARDINUM CITRINUM, ITori.— Sec M. pardinum unicolok. 



M. PARDINUM MELANOPS, 2?c7,6. /.—A variety with " flowers of such a 

 dark brownish-purple tinge that they looked almost black." It appeared in 

 the collection of M. Kienast-Zolly, of Zurich. 



M. PARDINUM UNICOLOR, ifoofcer.— This variety differs from the type 

 only in having the flowers wholly of a clear lemon-yellow without any trace of 

 spotting, and is by so much the less ornamental of the two, though its self- 

 coloured flowers are not ineffective. — 2Iexico. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3879 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 181, f. 34. 



SYiJ. — M. pardinum citriiiuvi ; J/, citriuwm ; Catasetum cltrimim. 



M. PUNCTATUM, Holfe. — An attractive plant which appeared in the collec- 

 tion of M. Gustave Bral, of Mont St. Amand, Ghent, Belgium. " Sepals light 

 yellowish-brown, densely speckled with very dark brown, IJ inch long by 4 lines 

 broad ; petals 6 lines broad, otherwise like sepals ; lip stalked, blade triangular, 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate ; sides reflexedor nearly revolute, lateral angles 

 rounded ; colour yellow, with numerous small chestnut spots ; column pale 

 yellowish-white, densely and minutely spotted with light purple " (R. A. Eolfe, 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1891, x. p. 696). 



M. ROLFEANUM, L. Linden. — A new and distinct species with large and 

 handsome flowers. The sepals and petals are pale green, tinted with brosvn 

 and relieved by dark green stripes ; the lip is fleshy, brownish-crimson on the 

 anterior surface, greenish-yellow on the lower side, striped with green ; the 

 column is crimson posteriorly, white in front. Strongly scented. Dedicated 

 to Mr. B.. A. Rolfe, Assistant, Herbarium, Kew. — Peru. 



Fig. — Lindenia, vii. t. 289 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1892, xi. p. 203, f. 30. 



M. UNCIA, Bchb.f. — The handsomest and most noble of all the Mormodes, 

 distinguished by its broadly fusiform somewhat two-edged stems or pseudo- 

 bulbs, about 3 inches high, its elongate lanceolate ribbed leaves 1 to IJ foot 

 long, and its many-flowered pendulous raceme of large flowers, which are 

 2i inches in diameter, whitish externally, and within of a pale yellow, entirely 

 covered with oblong dark crimson spots rather smaller and more dot-like near 

 the margin ; the sepals and petals are concave, an inch across, ovate-acute, and 

 the lip is curved xipwards with a linear fleshy base dilated gradually into a 

 saccate orbicular apex, the base dark purple, the inner surface yellow spotted 

 with red, the exterior spotted like the sepals except at the tip, which is lilac. 

 The flowers have an aromatic odour. 



FlG.^Jiot. Mag., t. .5802. 



Syn.— J/. Grccnii. 



M. WILLIAMSII. — See M. luxatum eburneum. 



