INCONSPICUOUS AND RARELY CULTIVATED ORCHIDS. 147: 



would be temporarily to imprison an insect which had crawled over the 

 tubercle. As an example of vegetable mechanism interesting to every- 

 body, nothing could be more striking than this. 



An interesting addition to the group is the new MasclevaUia deorsa, 



another of Mr. Lehmann's introductions from Colombia. It has the 

 unusual habit of growing head downwards, hence the name. Masdcvallia 

 Culcx is now known under its proper name of Plcurothallis macrohlepharis. 

 It will be seen by the plant here exhibited that it is an " inconspicuous " 

 Orchid, its flower bearing a fanciful resemblance to a gnat Plcurothallis 



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