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MACROCHILUS FRYANUS. 



This plant, which is perfectly new to this country, is a native of the Brazils, 

 from whence it was received with many other rarities by the Birmingham 

 Botanical and Horticultural Society in the autumn of 1835. The flower is 

 strikingly handsome, the delicate cream-coloured sepals and petals presenting a 

 fine contrast with the unusually large and beautifully-marked labellum. The 

 scape appears to bear only one flower, but this is of long duration, having remained 

 in perfection nearly three weeks. Upon the whole it cannot fail to be regarded 

 as an elegant and most valuable addition to our present stock of orchidaceous 

 plants. It is nearly allied to Oncidium, particularly O. lanceanum, with which it 

 agrees in the subconnate lateral sepals, the shape and appendages of the column, 

 the terminal anther, the solid and sulcated pollen-masses, and the not very 

 dissimilar caudicula and gland, differing from it chiefly, though not entirely, in 

 the more lengthened claw, and entire (not 3-lobed) state of the labellum. 



It requires the protection of the stove, and should be planted in rough, sandy 

 peat, mixed with a considerable portion of fine drainers, using also plenty of 

 drainers at the bottom of the pot. The creeping stems, from which the pseudo- 

 bulbs grow, ought to be entirely upon the surface. To facilitate increase, the 

 stems may be cut half through (which will cause young shoots to be sent out), 

 and finally cut through a month or more before dividing. 



The generic name, which we have given to this plant, is derived from [tempos, 

 long, and x«A.os a lip, in allusion to the unusual size of that part of the flower. 



The specific name Fryanus, in compliment to Fry, Esq., for many years a 



resident in the Brazils, to whom the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural 

 Society are indebted for repeated importations of scarce and valuable plants. 



Fig. 1, posterior oblique view of the pollen-masses, caudicula, and gland, 

 magnified ; 2, anterior view of the column, showing its connexion with the claw 

 of the lip ; 3, lateral view of the same. 



END OF VOL. I. 



LONDON : 



BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. 



