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GONGORA bufonia. 
Toad-skinned Grongora. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncuipaces, § VANDER. 
GONGORA. Botanical Register, vol. 19. fol. 1616. 
G. bufonia; hypochilii convexi cornubus lateralibus obsoletis, aristis seta- 
ceis, epichilio acuminato paulo breviore, pedicellis columna tripld 
longioribus. 
In May, 1839, I received this plant from Mr. Rucker, 
with the following note :— 
“The accompanying flower of a Gongora, which was 
sent me last year from Hamburgh by a friend who had re- 
ceived it from the Brazils, appears to me different from any 
of the species I have seen. ‘The pseudo-bulbs are as large 
as in G'. maculata, and are almost white ; the leaves are also 
of apale whitish green colour, and the whole appearance of 
the plant is different from any I know.” 
Upon comparing it with the other species of the genus 
already in cultivation it is found to differ, not only in its sin- 
gular colour, which is a dull purple, like wine-lees, in the 
form of very irregular stains and spots, upon a dirty yellow 
ground, but also in the minuter parts of its structure. 
It may be distinguished from G. fulva, maculata, and 
atropurpurea, in wanting the lateral horns which project 
from the sides of the lower part of the lip in those species. 
From G. nigrita, which equally wants those horns, it differs 
in having much longer bristles, and a lip altogether longer, 
especially at the lower half. 
It should be cultivated with other Orchidaceous plants in 
