Tas. 5265. 
CHYSIS aurea; var. Lemminghei.” 
Golden-flowered Chysis ; var. Lemminghei. | 
Nat. Ord. OrcHi1pEa#.—GYNANDRIA Monoeynia, 
Gen. Char, (Vide supra, Tas. 5186.) 
Cuysis aurea; bracteis parvis concavis ovario brevioribus, sepalis petalisque 
ovatis obtusis, labelli lobis lateralibus obtusis, intermedio majore carnoso 
bilobo, hypochilio plicato, lamellis 5 carnosis subzequalibus parallelis basi 
pubescentibus et utrinque aliis minoribus (potius venis elevatis), columna 
latissima carnosa cymbiformi antice pubescente. Lindl. 
Cuysts aurea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1937. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3611. 
B. maculata ; sepalorum petalorumque parte superiore aureo-fusco tincta, labelli 
lobo medio purpureo-maculata. 
Cuysis aurea 8. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4576. 
y- Lemminghei ; floribus albis purpureo tinctis, labello flavo intense purpureo- 
maculato striatoque. (Tas. Nostr. 5265.) 
Cuysis Lemminghei, Linden, Cat. 
Slight modifications of form and colour in plants are too 
often considered characteristics of specific differences; in none 
more so than among the Orchideous family. We know not if 
our present variety has been anywhere figured and described ; 
but it passes as a Chysis from Central America, distributed 
under the name of C. Lemminghei (in compliment, we believe, 
to Count Lemminghe): and certainly, if colour of flower were 
alone the point to be considered, this might well be supposed 
different from one whose colours suggested the specific name of 
Chysis aurea, given to the plant figured by Dr. Lindley, Bot. 
Reg. t. 1937, where the purple colour is confined to a few re- 
mote streaks on the inside of the pale-coloured labellum. Our 
C. aurea (Bot. Mag. t. 3617) has the purple streaks nearly ob- 
solete. Our C. aurea, var. maculata (see our Tab. 4576), has 
more distinct purple streaks than those previously figured, and 
a deep-tawny blotch occupying the upper half of the sepals and 
AuGuUSsT IsT, 1861. 
