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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, by whom it was imported from the 
East Indies. The flowers are five to six inches in diameter; and 
not a spot interferes with the pure ivory white petals, except one 
long yellow stripe along the middle of the lip.— Bot. Reg. 67-47. 
Oncidium curtum (Lindley). We received this new species in 
July last from Messrs. Veitch, without any account of its history. 
The beauty of the plant renders it desirable that it should 
be better known. At first sight it looks like O. crispum or 
Forbesii, but, in reality, it is much nearer O. pectorale. From 
that species it differs in the following particulars: 1, The 
flowers are smaller; 2, there is more brown in the sepals and 
petals; 3 , there is a broad brown border to the lip ; 4, the space 
between the auricles and expanded part of the lip is very short, 
with parallel edges ; 5, the auricles are broader ; 6, the tubercles 
of the crest are much more broken up, and differently arranged; 
7, the anther is downy ; and 8, the lateral sepals are nearly united 
'to the point.— Bot. Reg. 68-4 7. 
Gongora maculata tricolor (Lindley). There are two accounts 
of the history of this variety of Gongora : one, that it came from 
Peru; the other, for which we have the authority of the late Mr. 
Clowes’s gardener, is, that it was detected by J. Maclean, Esq., 
of Lima, on the mountains near Panama, in 1841, and by that 
gentleman presented to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, from 
w r henee Mr. Clowes obtained it in 1842. It is a most beautiful 
variety of G. maculata. The ground colour of every part of the 
flower, except the lip, is clear yellow ; the column and petals 
are delicately banded with rich Sienna brown, and a few large, 
clear distinct blotches of the same colour occur on the sepals. 
The lip itself is white, with a cinnamon stain on the ends of the 
lateral tubercle and the sides of its upper half.— Bot. Reg. 69-47. 
Oncidium pelicanum (Martius). This plant is very closely akin 
to O. rejlexum , from which it differs principally in the sepals and 
petals being less blotched, in the lateral lobes of the lip being 
smaller in proportion to the intermediate segment, and in the 
tubercles of the crest, which is smooth, not downy, being rather 
differently arranged. The name has doubtless been given in al¬ 
lusion to the column, which is not unlike a pelican pecking her 
breast. It is a native of Mexico, whence it was introduced by 
Messrs. Loddiges.— Bot. Reg. 70-47. 
