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SCHOMBURGKIA undulata. 
Wavy Schomburgkia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA. $ EPIDENDREA. 
SCHOMBURGKIA, Botanical Register, 1844. t. 23. 
S. undulata (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844. misc. 21. necnon sub t. 23.) pseudo- 
bulbis fusiformibus, floribus densé racemosis, bracteis longissimis spa- 
thaceis, sepalis petalisque æqualibus linearibus undulato-crispis labello 
longioribus, labelli cucullati lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio ovali 
acuto v. obtuso, lamellis 5 undulatis duabusque lateralibus rectis 
tenuibus. 
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A year ago we regarded this as the finest of the Schom- 
burgkias: we are now obliged to change our opinion in con- 
sequence of a new discovery by Mr. Linden, whose S. rosea is 
far beyond it in beauty, as we shall presently explain. 
The plant now represented was found by that indefatigable 
traveller, in December 1842, in New Grenada, at the height 
of 2400 feet above the sea, on the rocks near Pandi, a place, 
which, in his herbarium, he calls, ‘the natural bridge of 
Icononzo." The wild specimens have about 20 flowers in a 
head, and the plant will therefore become much more beautiful 
as the cultivated specimens get into better health. Their 
colour alone distinguishes them from both S. crispa and 
marginata, and the form of the lip from S. tibicinis. 
The glory of this genus is, however, none of those which 
yet have flowered, but Mr. Linden’s Schomburgkia rosea, the 
number 1664 of his herbarium. ‘‘ This magnificent species,” 
he writes, “is found on rocks, on the northern slope of 
the Sierra nevada de Santa Martha. Bracts, peduncles, and 
lip, are all of a light rose colour ; the petals are deep red. 
It was met with 5000 feet above the sea, between the villages 
of S. Antonio and S. Miguel, on the territory of the 
October, 1845. = 
