NEW ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS. 
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ance. It should be grown in pots in the 
elevated way. Figured in Bot. Reg. 1845, 
t. 36. 
Odontoglossum membranaceum, Lhulley. 
(Membranaceous sheathed Odontoglossum.) — 
This is a beautiful little pseudo-bulbous Or- 
chid. The blossoms are white, in the way 
of O. Cervantesii, of large size, and delicately 
banded in a concentric manner, with rose- 
coloured streaks or bands. O. Cervantesii 
is much like this, but in that species the bands 
do not cross the base of the lip. Fig. in Bot. 
Reg. 1846, t. 34. 
Oncidium gallopavinum, Morren, is the 
same as 0. spilopterum ; it is a pseudo-bulbous 
species, from Mexico, with a spike of from 
seven to ten flowers of considerable beauty, 
the sepals and petals of which are brownish 
green, stained with crimson, and the lip is 
large and yellow. Fig. in Bot. Meg. 1845, 
t. 40. 
Oncidium incurvum, Burlier. (Curved 
Oncid.) — A very pretty pseudo-bulbous spe- 
cies, with a long, erect, branched panicle, of 
rather small white flowers, the sepals and 
petals banded with red, and the base of the 
lip of the same colour. It is a free growing, 
but exceedingly rare and pretty species. Fig. 
in Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 64. 
Oncidium lacerum, Lindley. (Cut-lipped 
Oncid.) — This belongs to the round or chive- 
leaved section of Oncids, and is one of the 
handsomest of that group, It bears a close 
many-flowered panicle of gay yellow flowers, 
spotted, except on the lip, which is clear yel- 
low. It is found in Panama, whence Messrs. 
Loddiges received it, and bloomed it in 1844. 
Fig. in Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 27. 
Oncidium phymatochilum, Lindley ? 
("YViirted-lipped Oncid.) — At the exhibition 
of the Horticultural Society in May, 1846, a 
handsome specimen of this new and rare spe- 
cies was shown by the Rev. J. Clowes, of 
Broughton Hall. It is not what may be called 
a showy plant, but a very singular looking 
one ; in fact, its long narrow sepals and petals 
give it more the appearance of a Brassia than 
i an Oncid. The flowers are produced in large 
spreading panicles, the sepals and petals are 
of a pale greenish colour, spotted with brown, 
and the lip is white, spotted at the base with 
yellow. According to the catalogue of Messrs. 
Loddiges, the plant was received from Brazil 
in 1843. 
Ornithidium miniatum, Lindley. (Ver- 
milion painted Ornithidium.) — A caulescent 
species, with bulb-like stems, and oblong 
spreading leaves : the flowers are of a rich 
crimson vermilion, with a yellow lip, blotched 
with crimson. It was received from Colombia 
by Messrs. Rollison. It has quite the habit 
of 0. CQCcineum, but is much handsomer. 
Peristeria Humboldti, var. fulvu, 
Hooker. (Tawny flowered variety of Hum- 
boldt's Dove-flower.) — This is, perhaps, one 
of the most gay and interesting of the race of 
Orchidaceae. It has oblong pseudo-bulbs, and 
a long, drooping, many-flowered raceme, pro- 
duced from the base of the pseudo-bulbs ; the 
flowers are numerously produced on this ra- 
ceme ; they are of a triangular figure, tawny 
yellow, and dashed all over with small purple 
brown spots. It is the Anguloa superba of 
Humboldt, and is a native of Venezuela. 
Figured in Bot. Mag. t. 4156. 
Pleurothallis crenata, Lindley. (Cre- 
nelled Pleurothallis ) — -A stove epiphyte, of 
little beauty. It has oblong obtuse leaves, and 
loose racemes of dull green flowers, closely 
spotted with dull dark purple. It was ob- 
tained from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges. 
Poltstachya bracteosa, Lindley. (Brac- 
teated Polystaehya.) — A small plant from 
Sierra Leone. The pseudo-bulbs are small, 
suborbicular, and from the top arises the 
petiole of the oblong ovate leaf, and from the 
base of the leaf issues the drooping raceme of 
numerous small orange coloured flowers. None 
of the parts are large enough to produce much 
show. 
Porpax reticulata, Lindley. (Net- veined 
Porpax.) — A diminutive and curious Orchid, 
with a few button-like pseudo-bulbs, held 
together by a slender rhizome, little oblong 
leaves, and small dull red flowers, about three- 
quarters of an inch long : these flowers are 
solitary. It was received from the East In- 
dies by Messrs. Loddiges. It is, of course, not 
showy, but interesting, from its very dimi- 
nutive proportions. 
Saccolabium sp. — Messrs. Veitch, of 
Exeter, have imported from Java what is re- 
garded as a new species of this fine genus ; it 
bears compact drooping racemes of white and 
purple flowers, and has rather long strap- 
shaped prsemorse leaves. 
Sarciiociiilus Calceolus, Lindley. ( Slip- 
pered Fleshlip.) — A singular, but not very 
showy stove epiphyte, from Manilla, whence 
Messrs. Loddiges received it. It has a length- 
ened stem, throwing out aerial roots at inter- 
vals, and furnished with oblong fleshy leaves, 
from just above the axils of which the flowers 
are produced on short two-flowered peduncles: 
they are white in every part except the lip, 
which is tinted with yellow and orange ; in 
form, the lip remarkably resembles a slipper. 
The plant is quite novel. Fig. in Bot. Reg. 
1846, t. 19. 
ScHOMIiURGKIA TIISICINIS, VII r. ijnnidi flora, 
Lindley. (Large-flowered variety of Trumpet 
Schomburgkia.) — The Schomburgkias are 
very tall-growing Orchidaceous plants; of 
some rarity, and certainly of a magnificent 
