was stated, by Sir W. Hooker, to have four horns, which 
is correct if the bristles are included. 
2. G. maculata. In this species, the horns are short and 
thick, and placed so much at right angles to the lip, as 
to give it a heart-shaped appearance. It never has the 
wine-coloured flowers of the last; but the flowers are in 
all cases more or less yellow, and generally gaily speckled 
with cinnamon brown. G. fulva of this work, t. 51, 
1839, is only one of its numerous varieties. 
Il. Horns of the base of the lip only little round callosities. 
3. G. nigrita. With the colour of G. atropurpurea, but still 
deeper, this has quite a different lip, not slender at the 
base, but rounded like G. maculata, and its horns are 
quite small; the upper part of its lip is singularly 
slender and bristle-pointed. 
4. G. bufonia. Here, on the contrary, not only is the deep 
wine-coloured hue missing, but the lower half of the 
lip is much larger, and the upper half far broader. All 
the pale purple Gongoras, and the white kind, seem to be 
referable to this species. 
III. Horns of the base of the lip entirely absent. 
5. G.truncata. Perfectly distinct from all the preceding in 
the form of its flower buds, which resemble a bean. 
The bristles, usually so conspicuous, are also almost 
absent. It looks very like the commencement of a 
change from Gongora to such a genus as Acropera. 
* Uncertain s pecies. 
t 6. G. Galeottiana. "The published character of this conveys 
no information which enables us even to judge to what 
species it is allied. Its country (Mexico) leads to the 
supposition that it may be G. truncata. 
T 7. G. guinguenervis. This is also indeterminable. It is said 
to have yellowish purple flowers, and comes from Peru. 
We have here nothing that can be supposed to belong to 
it. The only Peruvian species, yet known, is G. maculata, 
var. tricolor (B. Reg. 1844, misc. 30), but that plant has 
no purple in its flowers. 
