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WARRÉA cyanea. 
Blue-lipped Warrea. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER. $ VANDEÆ— MAXILLARIDE. 
WARREA, Lindl. Flores subglobosi, subregulares, mento brevi rotun- 
dato. Labellum continuum, indivisum, lineis elevatis carnosis in medium. 
Columna semiteres, clavata. Pollinia 4, per paria in caudiculam brevem 
linearem inserta, glanduld triangulari. Herba terrestris, pseudobulbosa. 
Folia arundinacea. Scapus radicalis apice racemosus. Flores speciosi. 
W. cyanea, Supra, 1844. misc. no. 3. 
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When, in the year 1843, I proposed to establish a new 
genus upon the Maxillaria Warreana, it certainly did not 
occur to me that two new and quite distinct species would be 
added to it in the course of as many years. Such, however, 
has been the fact; in the beginning of 1844 this beautiful 
species blossomed with Messrs. Loddiges, and a few months 
since another appeared in the collection of Mr. Rucker. 
Both the latter are from the Spanish main, and it is not im- 
probable that others may lurk in the unexamined forests of 
that vast region. 
Warrea cyanea is remarkable for the intense porcelain- 
blue colour of its lip, to which it is not easy to find a parallel 
in the order; for pure blue is scarcely known among Orchids. 
The plant has quite the habit of Warrea tricolor, but is very 
much smaller in all its parts. Its most distinctive character 
is found in the form of its lip, which has a distinct point, and 
five ribs, not three, near the base. Messrs. Loddiges imported 
it from Colombia, and it is no. 860 of their last catalogue. 
Deing a terrestrial species this requires treatment very 
similar to Phaius maculatus. The soil best suited is turfy 
heath mould with a mixture of silver sand; nor is it neces- 
sary to have the soil elevated above the brim of the pot, for it 
will not succeed well if the roots are too much exposed. In 
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