scape, on which two or three flowers 
1841 
CORYANTHES macräntha. 
Large-flowered Coryanthes. 
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Nat. ord, OrcHIDACER, $ VANDER. 
CORYANTHES.—Supra, vol. 21, t. 1793, 
C. macrantha; folis angusto-lanceolatis, pseudo-bulbis ovato-conicis alte 
- suleatis, labello utrinque quater plicato: plicis deflexis. 
Gongora macrantha. Hooker Bot. Misc. 2. p. 151. t. 80. 
Coryanthes macrantha, Hooker in Bot. Mag. fol. 3102 in textu. Gen. & Sp. 
of Orchideous Pl. 159. 
Accustomed as we are now become to strange forms among 
Orchideous plants, I doubt whether any species has yet been 
seen more remarkable for its unusual characters than that 
now represented. + à 
| otanical Mis- 
om the Caraccas 
of Mr. Knight in the King's Road; and it proves to bi $ 
respects the same as the specimen sent to r. Hooker, 
The plant has the habit of a Stanhopea, or a Gongora ; 
and pushes forth from the base of its pseudo-bulbs a pendulous 
are developed. Each 
flower is placed at the end of a long stiff cylindrical furrowed 
ovary, and when expanded, measures ‘something more than 
6 inches from the tip of one sepal to that of the opposite one. 
In colour the sepals are an ochrey yellow, spotted irregularly 
with dull purple; they have a most delicate texture; the upper 
sepal falls back from the tip of the ovary, is narrow and not 
above one half the length of the two lateral ones, which, instead 
