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GONGORA maculata ; var. tricolor. 
Three-coloured Spotted Gongora. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
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Nat. ord. ORCHIDACES. (ORcHrps, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
GONGORA, Botanical Register, vol. 19. fol. 1616. 
G. maculata (Lindley in Bot. Reg. t. 1616. Ib. 1847. t. 17.) ; foliis 5-plicatis 
obovato-oblongis basijvaldé angustatis, sepalis lateralibus & latä basi 
angustatis, hypochilio oblongo subtüs convexo basi obtusé bicorni apice 
truncato angulis acutis in cirrhis duobus longis producto, epichilio 
acuminato. 
Var. tricolor, Bot. Reg. 444. misc. no. 40. o 
There are two accounts of the history of this variety of 
Gongora ; one that it came from Peru ; the other, for which 
we have the authority of the late Mr. Clowes's gardener, is 
that it was detected by John Maclean, Esg., of Lima, on the 
mountains near Panama in 1841, and by that gentleman pre- 
sented to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, from whence Mr. 
Clowes obtained it in 1842. 
It is a most beautiful variety of G. maculata. The ground 
colour of every part of the flower, except the lip, is clear 
yellow ; the column and petals are delicately banded with 
rich sienna brown, and a few large clear distinct blotches of 
the same colour occur on the sepals. The lip itself is white, 
with a cinnamon stain on the ends of the lateral tubercles and 
-the sides of its upper half. 
