Plate XII. 



CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM. 



Cyrtopodium punctatum. hindl Genera et £/>e«W Orchid, p. 188. Botanical 



Magazine, /. 350/ ♦ 

 Epidendrum punctataltt. Linn. Sp> PL KM!). IVHUl Sp />/. 4. 116. 

 Hcllchorinc ramosi^sinia. canliculia et lluribus maculosia. Plum. Plant. American* 



(. 18/. 





Although this plant has been already figured twice before, it deserves a place in this collection, 

 for the representations above quoted in neither case give « correct likeness of it ; that in the 

 Botanical Magazine Kwnw to have hecn taken from a bleached specimen. The plant from which 

 the annexed drawing was prepared was sent me from Liverpool hy Richard Harrison, Esq. anil 

 about tin* Mimr time I received it from Mr. Henry Shepherd who had (lowered it in the Botanical 

 Garden. Liverpool* 



It is far more striking than the commonC. Andewmii, on account of the bright, deep criuwon 

 stain* with which the braeta and flower*. a* well aa the flower-stems, arc richly variegated ; but in 

 foliage and general habit i* *o like it as to be hardly distinguishable when not in blossom. 



The specie* is extensively distributed through the tropica! parts of America. I have wild 

 specimens gathered in Si. Domingo by Mr. Charles Mackenzie, and oilier* found by Dcppe and 

 Schiede in Mexico, on banal tic rocks at Ualpayo de Xaulingn, in the ticrra tvmplada, flowering in 

 April* Mr. Gardner found it in Brazil, whence -Mr. Harrison'a plant wan received, and it exists in 

 Dr. von Martin**:* Urmeiliaii herbarium, under the name of OncitJlum palmopkilim, patmis aliisque 

 ttrhonbm parasiticus $yk* Catingas. jromtcfa Bahlmns ad Jtio dt Contas; ho. 1965. 



In stem and leaves this is extremely like Cyrtopodium Andcrsomt. The *C*pe i» from 

 iwo to three feet high, round, branched above the middle, and finely dotted with dull purple; 

 with a few membranous green gcalc*, which arc erect and sheathing near the base, undulated, 

 oblong-lanceolate, rellexiil, acuminate, pale yellowish green, richly spotted and banded with crimson 

 towards and among the flowers. The floweus arc regularly alternate upon the simple branches 

 of n racemose panicle, about an inch apart, and nearly two inches in diameter. The seimls and 

 petals arc spreading and a little rcflexed . the former are oblong-lanceolate, undulated, acuminate, 



or only acute, greenish yellow, ami blotched with crimson ; the latter arc bright yellow, of nearly 

 the same sire and form, but less undulated and rather broader, with a few crimson spots near the 

 hase. The mi* in about half an inch long, more fleshy than the other parts, shortly unguiculate, 

 with a bright, deep, yellow ground colour, deeply threcdobed; the two lateral lobes obovate, 

 rounded, rather wavy, and deep crimson j the middle lobe broader than loii<*. emarginate. doll 

 crimson and closely tuberculated ut (he margin ; the disk i* a little Spotted and banded with yellow, 

 and uj covered with pale yellow granulation*, which are collected into a circle in the centre, and 

 are also a little dispersed over the unguis. The colvmh is grceu. 



