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A very singular plant, allied to B. saltatorium, and like 
that species having a moveahle lip fringed with long purple 
hairs, which rises and falls spontaneously as the stem sways 
about in the wind. Its scape is full two feet long, stiff and 
erect. The flowers are of a dirty yellow ochre colour with a 
little purple upon them ; the lip is dull purple. For our spe- 
cimens we are indebted to Col. Fielding, who procured the 
species from Sierra Leone. 
110. MILTONIA Candida ; var. grandiflora. 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. raise. 29. Sertum Orch. t. 21. 
Of this fine plant a most beautiful variety has flowered 
with Mr. Rucker, who purchased it in Hamburgh. Its flowers 
are twice as large as those of the original variety, the lip is of 
a most brilliant white, and the sepals and petals are of a deep 
rich brown spotted towards the extremities only with yellow. 
111. CATASETUM Naso. 
C. Naso ; spica brevi erecta, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis complicates petalisque 
lanceolatis ascendentibus tequalibus, labello hemisphserico apice abrupte 
in appendicem carnosum ovatum obtusum producto : marginibus basi 
tenuibus laceris amplexicolumnibus : linea intramarginali carnosa inflexa 
connivente aperturam cordiformem efficiente, columna bicirrliosa. 
This singular plant was received last year from Linden by 
Mr. Rucker, with whom it has lately flowered. It is a plant 
whose flowers before opening might be mistaken for C. tri- 
dentatum, hut when expanded they are totally different. The 
sepals and petals, which are very pale dull green outside, are 
slightly pink inside, and richly spotted, in irregular bars, with 
a deep crimson-purple. The lip is a most singular organ, 
and very difficult to describe. Viewed from the side it has a 
hemispherical form, and is green except at the base, where it 
is extended into a black-purple lacerated margin embracing 
the column, and at the point where it is extended into a long 
flat horn or nose. Seen in front it is almost wholly of the 
same rich black-purple, and looks as if it were a solid hemi- 
sphere pierced in the middle with a large heart-shaped hole ; 
hut this appearance is owing to a thick fleshy rim which rises 
from within the true edge of the lip, and directing itself in- 
wards horizontally with an uneven outline, at last touches in 
