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culms, and the pale glaucous colour of the foliage, and the extraordinary 

 appearance and lurid purple of the flower, give it a most sinister appearance, 

 and for an Orchid a most unusual one." — Ecuador. 



FlQ.—Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 432 (woodcut) ; Bot. Mag., t. 5723 ; Flore dc-s Sevres, 

 t. 1771 ; Llndenia, iv. t. 147 ; Veitch'.s 3fan. Orch. PL, vi. p. 130; Jonrn. of Hurt., 1890, 

 xxi. p. 51, 19. 



Syn. — E2)idcndruni 3Iedu! 



■snr. 



Was ONI A, Lindleij. 

 (Trile Vaudeae, suitribe Pachyphylleae.) 

 A genus of small-growing Peruvian plants, having usually very 

 bright-coloured flowers ; we have introduced here one species only, which 

 we are told was originally discovered by Hartweg many years ago, when 

 travelling for the Horticultural Society of London. It is a dwarf plant, 

 with stem-like growbh, and for its size the flowers are large and 

 brilliantly coloured. 



Culture. — The plants should be grown in small hanging baskets well 

 drained, using for soil peat fibre and chopped sphagnum moss ; it should 

 be kept moist all the year round, and be hung up near the roof glass in 

 the coolest house with 'the Odontoglossums. 



N. PUNCTATA, Lindl. — This is a little gem, having flowers as brilliant as 

 those of the brightest forms of Sophronites grandiflora, it has slender stem-like 

 growths, attaining some 6 inches in height, furnished with distichous oblong 

 lanceolate fleshy leaves which are keeled beneath and rich deep green in colour ; 

 flowers on short pedicels from the axils of the leaves, solitary, measuring about 

 If inch across vertically, of a brilliant red saving the short lip which is of a 

 rich clear yellow tinged with orange at the base. — Peru. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5718. 



N E T T I A .—See Macodes Petola. 

 NOTYLIA, imcZZej/. 



(Tribe Vandeae, subtribe Notylieae.) 

 ■ A genus containing a considerable number of species of somewhat 

 inconspicuous plants, indeed some of them so much so as to be quite 

 worthless to the ordinary amateur, but the few kinds which we have here 

 introduced are exceedingly interesting and they occupy but little space. 

 They are natives of various parts of South America and Mexico, and may 



