The Journal of Botany - 1834 Author:William Jackson Hooker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: which it is chiefly distinguished by its posterior labellum connate with the column, like that of an Epidendrum. lam uncertain if this genus is not the same as E... more »lleanthos of Presl. I. Hexisea bidentala.—Hab. in Panama et Columbia occidental!, Cuming. (hob. s, .;.) Caules teretes, 6-8-poll. longi. Folia 4 poll, longa, 2-| lin. lata. Flares glaberrimi, Ornithidio coccinei fere magnitudine. Sepala et petala lineari-lanceolata, acuta. Labellum subcon- forme, sed apicem versus paulo dilatatum. Auricula columnae bidentatae. In tliis plant, the petals are often deformed, so as to be either abbreviated, or truncated, or falcate, or toothed. Their natural form is, no doubt, such as I have described. NOTES UPON A SMALL COLLECTION OF PERUVIAN ORCHIDEE. Br Pkofessob Lindley. No better example of the inexhaustible riches of Peruvian Orchideous plants need be adduced than the following, where, among fifteen species, two only have before been described; and while one is a genus totally different from any previously known, another is perhaps scarcely referable to the genus (Oncidiwn) with which it is associated. They will all be hereafter incorporated with Messrs. Hooker and Arnott's valuable Catalogue of South American plants; but as some time must elapse before the Monocotyledones can be therein inserted, the characters and memoranda have been prepared, with a view of encouraging others who may visit such localities, to perseverance in the collection of this interesting tribe. By a strange inadvertence the pollen-masses are stated to be incumbent ( § § ) instead of collateral (00 00). They are rightly described in the " Analytical Table." 1. Pleurothallis cordata. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch.p. 5.— Turuencho, near Cuenqa, Prof. Wm. Jameson, Dec. 1831. The only specimen is, ...« less