Tas. 6496. 
MORMODES OcAN. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. OrcnHIpExX.—Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Mormopes, Lindl.; (Reichb.in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 577.) 
Mormopges Ocane; pseudobulbis oblongo-ellipsoideis basibus membranaceis 
foliorum fere obtectis, foliis pedalibus 1}-poll. latis elongato-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis, pedunculo valido inclinato fusco-virescente, racemo 6-10-floro bracteis 
oblongis obtusis cymbiformibus, floribus subfasciculatis aurantiacis punctis 
maculisve parvis fusco-sanguineis creberrime undique irroratis, sepalis petalisque 
consimilibus lanceolatis acuminatis, labello longe unguiculato trilobo, lobis 
lateralibus brevibus oblongis obtusis intermedio majore subquadrato rostrato 
marginibus omnium recurvis. 
M. Ocane, Lindl. and Reichb. f. mss. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 577; Reichb. f. 
in Gard. Chron. 1879, p. 582 et 817, fig. 133, 134. 
Of the genus Mormodes seven species are now figured 
in this work; M. pardina (Tab. 3879 and 3900), M. 
Cartoni (Tab. 4214), M. lentiginosa (Tab. 4455), M. atro- 
purpurea (Tab. 4577), M. Greenii (Tab. 5802), M. Colossus 
(Tab. 5840), and the subject of the present plate, all of them 
differing remarkably from M. Ocane, both in the form of 
the perianth-segments and their colouring, but agreeing in 
the singular arrangement of the column, which is twisted 
one quarter round so as to bring the anther to face side- 
ways, and to afford a landing-place to insects close to or 
upon the anther itself. In M. Ocanw the slender beak 
of the column, to which the anther case is hinged, rests on 
the side of the mid-lobe of the lip, and when touched the 
whole anther with its broad strap and gland is released 
from the column with a jerk, and is, according to Dr. 
Reichenbach, frequently tossed into the concavity of the lip 
itself ; for that learned author remarks (Gard. Chron. l. c. 
582) that the three lobes of the lip form as many bags, in 
one of which he always found a pollen-apparatus ; and he 
IUNE Ist, 1880. 
