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extremity, strongly plaited, and many times longer than the 

 bulbs. But in the present species the bulbs are very long and 

 almost linear, and the leaves linear- lanceolate, by no means 

 widening to either extremity, with no trace of plicatures, and 

 scarcely more than twice the length of the bulbs. These will 

 be considered sufficient grounds for distinguishing the two 

 plants as species. 



With respect to the genus, I have elsewhere * shown the 

 very near proximity of Gomeza to Rodriguezia; a more care- 

 ful examination of this plant has satisfied me that the two 

 genera must be united. I would therefore name the subject 

 of this article Rodriguezia planifolia, distinguishing it from 

 R. lanceolata by the leaves being flat, and from R. (Gomeza) 

 recurva, by their not being plaited. Their other differential 

 characters have been already indicated. A tender stove epi- 

 phyte, preserved with difficulty by being planted in rotten 

 wood, or decayed vegetable matter. 



XXIV. Liparis foliosa. Lindley. 



L ? reflexa Bot. Reg. fol. 882 in textu. 

 Cymbidium refiexum Br. Prod. 331. 

 L. foliis radicalibus insequalibus lanceolatis integris acutis carnosis racemo sub- 

 aequalibus, labello oblongo retuso, clinandrio integerrimo. Bot. Register, fol. 882. 



This was presented to the Society, with many other curious 

 New Holland Plants, by Captain M* Arthur, in 1825, and 

 no doubt is the Cymbidium refiexum of Mr. Brown's Pro- 

 dromus. Upon comparing it with the Isle of France L. foliosa, 

 described by me in the Botanical Register, fol. 882, I see no 

 reason to doubt its being the same species ; that plant which 

 flowered in Mr. Barclay's stove, and which I there de- 



* Botanical Register, fol 930. 



