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SCHOMBURGKIA tibicinis, var. grandiflora. 
Large-flowered variety of the Trumpet Schomburgkia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE£&=EPIDENDRE®. $ LÆLrADÆ, Lindl. veg. 
kingd, p. 181. (ined.) 
SCHOMBURGKIA. Supra 1844. t. 23. 
S. tibicinis; pseudobulbis conicis corniformibus annulatis sulcatis 3-phyllis, 
foliis oblongis coriaceis patentibus, scapo longissimo tereti distanter 
squamato apice paniculato, paniculà pyramidali laxiflorà, sepalis peta- 
lisque undulatis crispis, labello oblongo cucullato venis per medium 
5 elevatis approximatis : laciniis lateralibus apice rotundatis intermedià 
subrhombeä emarginatà, antherá emarginatà.— Lindl. I. c. 
S. tibicinis, Bateman Orch. Mex. $ Guat. t. 30. 
Var. ; grandiflora; floribus dupló majoribus labello extus pallido intus lobo 
medio luteo, albo v. violaceo-limbato. 
That was a noble specimen from which the accompanying 
figure was taken, —the pseudobulbs being fifteen inches long, 
and the flowering stem five feet high. It was produced in 
the collection of Robert Hanbury, Esq. in May, 1844. 
It is certainly the same species as that named by Mr. 
Bateman “tibicinis,” because the hollow pseudobulbs are 
used as trumpets by the Indian children of Honduras ; a 
scene in which they are so occupied forms the subject of one 
of the exquisite wood-cuts in Mr. Bateman's magnificent 
work. 
But although the same species it is very different in the 
size and colour of the flowers, which are very much larger, 
far paler on the outside, and have a broader lip, whose 
middle lobe is not rich violet but yellow, with a white or 
purple border. In this instance the plant realises the expec- 
tations that had been formed of it: in other cases it has 
disappointed them. 
It may either be tied to a block of wood and suspended to 
a rafter, or it may be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed 
with potsherds, and treated in the same manner as Cattleyas. 
June, 1845. N 
