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in the details of the lip, especially in the crest, which in the prese 
species is a short and broad brush-like appendage with many teeth, vit 
in the other a single slender spine-like organ. The female flowers are, 
as usual very fleshy, and of a uniform clear apple green, becoming 
niii with age, while the males are more membranaceous, and 
irregularly dotted with purple-brown on a green ground, the spots on 
the lip being very minute, and the crest white. 
108. Ornithidium nanum, Zolfe ; conliine repentibus vaginis imbri- 
catis obtectis, pseudobulbis parvis lineari-oblongis monophyllis sub- 
confertis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis carnosissimis supra canaliculatis, 
floribus lateralibus solitariis, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis ovatis acutis, 
sepalo postico ovato-lanceolato acuto, lateralibus triangulari-lanceolatis 
acutis basi eum columnze pede in mentum conicum extensis, petalis. lan- 
ceolatis subacutis, labello integro spathulato obtuso, callo lineari obtuze 
carnoso, columna clavata alis triangulari-oblongis aeutis. 
Has.—W. Indies. 
Planta 1—13 poll. alta. Pseudobulbi 3-31 lin. longi. Folia 4-1 poll. 
longa, 1-12 lin. lata. Pedunculi 7-8 lin. longi. Bractew 2 lin. longs. 
in lin. latum. uro 21 lin. longa, ale 4 lin. longe. Mentum 3 lin. 
ngum 
À remarkable little plant, not much exceeding an inch high, and quite 
unlike any other known species. It was se ent to Kew by Mr. Wilke, 
Superintendent of the Rotterdam Zoological Gardens, and bloomed in 
the collection dating September last. The flowers are yellowish white, 
and bear much resemblance to those of Dendrobium crumenatum in 
o 
109. Trichocentrum Hartii, Rolfe: foliis sions subobtusis carnosis, 
seapis brevibus univelpaucifioris, bracteis late ovatis acutis conduplicatis, 
sepalis elliptico-oblongis subacutis concavis, petalis paulo latioribus 
subobtusis, labello brevissime .unguiculato pandurato-oblongo obtuso 
basi bilamellato lamellis bidentatis, caleare quam labellum breviore apice 
cutvato, columna brevissima alis láfó obovatis fimbriatis 
AB. —Venezuela, 
Folia 14-24 poll. longa, 3-1 poll. lata, . Scapi 1 poll. longi. - Bractec 
l lin. Jonge, Pedicelli 9 lin..longi. -Sepala 5 lin. longa, 2-24 lin. 
lata. Petala 5 lin. ges 3 lin. lata. Labellum. 19 lin. longum, 5 liu. 
latum.. Calcar . longum, | Columna 1$ lin. longa; ale, 2 lin 
thirds as long as the same or, r while in t present 234 ATH are only 
half as long. The ms is light yellow with the exception of the lip, 
which is white, with some brownish red stripes on the meo and a few 
minute spots of the same colour on the column-win of 
n ; 
Trevor Lawrence, Bart, Burford, Dorking, in September 1892, but 
d n e identi 
