. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . .) ;these were purchased in part for Baron De Lessert,and in part for the Museum of Natural History atParis. The following were obtained by the BritishMuseum, viz,, Macraes Ceylon collection (21/.),and George Dons ill-dried specimens from theWest Coast of Africa (12/. 10s.). The whole col-lection realised rather more than 250/. rJew Plants. 162. Oncidiummicrochilum,i?aieman, in Boi. Reg.\BiZ,t. 23. Lindley, Folia Orchiciacea (Oncidium) p. 8,No. seldom see this fine species, although it is easy togrow and its appearance i9 very strikin
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . .) ;these were purchased in part for Baron De Lessert,and in part for the Museum of Natural History atParis. The following were obtained by the BritishMuseum, viz,, Macraes Ceylon collection (21/.),and George Dons ill-dried specimens from theWest Coast of Africa (12/. 10s.). The whole col-lection realised rather more than 250/. rJew Plants. 162. Oncidiummicrochilum,i?aieman, in Boi. Reg.\BiZ,t. 23. Lindley, Folia Orchiciacea (Oncidium) p. 8,No. seldom see this fine species, although it is easy togrow and its appearance i9 very striking, notwithstand-ing the absence of gaudy colours. From a tuft of thinbroad leaves, not unlike those of Odontot/lossum grande,rises a long flower stem covered with a singu-larly glaucous bloom ; on this appear in Inug successionlaterals bearing 9 or 10 closely packed fleshy fragrantflowers wliiclr have the merit of remaining for a longtime in perfection and are about an inch and halfacross. In cultivation their sepals are olive green, with. a pale brown middle and many spots of a similar tint ;the petals are brighter purple with a clear yellowishgreen border ; the lip which is ivory white with someyellow and crimson near the centre is much smallerthan the other parts, 3 lobed, and about twice as broadas long. But all these colours are much deeper andbrighter in its native country. In the wings of thecolumn is to be found a portion of the evidence whichseems to show that these organs are abortive stamens ;for we usually find at their tip a well marked glandwhich it is scarcely possible to doubt is a rudimentaryanther. We owe the introduction of the species to 5Ir. Skinner, who found it in Guatemala growing on a barerock into the interstices of which its roots had pene-trated. There it flourished in the full sunshine, havingno more shade than was afforded by a neighbouringledge of rock for an hour or two in the day ; and whenit was afterwards met with in other localitie
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