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TRIBE VANDEiE. 



Maxillaria variabilis, var. unipunctata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. p. 23. A sin- 

 gular little epiphyte, received by Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., with others, from 

 the Horticultural Society, in March, 1837, in whose collection it flowered 

 January, 1838. It was gathered by Mr. Hartwig in the neighbourhood of 

 Vera Cruz. It is also in the very rich collection of Thomas Harris, Esq., of 

 Kingsbury. Bot. Beg. 



Govenia liliacea. Lindl. Lily-flowered Govenia. Bot. Reg. A small 

 tuberous plant about a foot high, imported from Mexico by G. Barker, Esq., of 

 Birmingham. It has the habit of Bletia, and flowers in the month of July. 

 The colour of tlie flowers is not a good pure white, but delicately streaked with 

 lines of rather pale purple. It is at present extremely rare, and Dr. Lindley 

 states that he has not heard of it in any other collection except Mr. Barker's 

 Bot. Reg. 



Oncidium carinatum ; pseudobulbis ovatis ; foliis lanceolatis ; scapo erecto ; 

 floribus secundis racemosis ; petalis conniventibus, maculatis ; pedicellis flexu- 

 osis ; labello cristato integerrimo ; bracteis scariosis. 



This is a pretty plant, but not showy ; and although not strictly agreeing 

 with the generic character, Oncidium, we consider it one of those exceptions 

 mentioned by Dr. Lindley in the Botanical Register which come too near it to 

 be separated. It differs from Oncidium in having the wings of the column in 

 the centre instead of the apex : but the pollen-masses, caudicula, and gland, are 

 certainly those of Oncidium. The labellum is also entire, and keeled from the 

 apex. It appears allied to O. gracile of Von Martius, described by Dr. Lind- 

 ley in the work above quoted. It is a native of Xalappa, where it was gathered 

 in the year 1837, and imported with many other rarities by George Barker, 

 Esq., Springfield, near Birmingham. 



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The London Collections. — At Messrs. Rollisons 1 , of Tooting, a very rare 

 orchideous plant is now in flower, Huntleya Meleagris ; it is the only plant in 

 the kingdom, and excites much interest among the amateurs of orchidaceas. 

 There is at present but a single flower, and that perhaps not so favourable a 

 specimen of the beauties of the plant as some of its successors may prove, for 

 the beautiful chequering of the petals is not sufficiently distinct. This collection 

 boasts another orchidaceous novelty at the present moment : — a beautiful plant 

 presenting some characteristics of the genus Oncidium, and somewhat resembling 

 the Oncidium Tigrinum, described by botanists, but is thought to be a new 

 genus * ; the present drooping raceme of eight or ten flowers is merely an 

 adventitious shoot, one quarter of the size of the old stems remaining when the 

 plant was imported, and consequently the flowers, of a delicate straw colour 



* This plant will be figured in No. XV. of the Floral Cabinet. 



