Tab. 5384. 



ANGULOA Ruckeri. 

 Mr. Ruder s Anguloa; blood-coloured var. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide;e. — Gynandria Monandeia. 



Gen. Char. Flores subglobosi, nunquam patentes. Sepala lateralia invicem 

 imbricantia, basi valde convexa, nee in cornu producta ; alterum nunc anticum 

 nunc posticum, conforme, basi planum. Pelala sepala dorsali sequalia, et similia. 

 Labellum coriaceum, unguiculatum, subconvolutum, semivolutum, trilobum, la- 

 mina carnosa lata plana, supra medium auctum, hinc quasi bilabiatum. Cohimna 

 teres, clavata, libera; clinandrio nunc mutico, nunc lacinia acuta porrecta utrin- 

 que acuto. Anthera galeata, valvis membranaceis nunc in lacinulas acutas 

 productis. Pollinia 4, plana, insequalia, caudicula longa lineari, et glandula 

 acuta. — Herbaa epiphyte, Granatenses et Peruviana, Lycastis/««£. Lindl. 



Anguloa Ruckeri ; pedunculo unifloro radicali squamis infimis imbricatis vagi- 

 nato, sepalis subrotundis apiculatis obtusis in globum conniventibus, labelli 

 trilobi antici lobis lateralibus obtusis aequalibus medio piloso infundibulari 

 bilabiato, labio altero emarginato altera tridentato, columna integra. Lindl. 



Anguloa Ruckeri. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846. #.41. 



Var. /3. sanguinea. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1854. p. 271. 



The original Anguloa Ruckeri, a native of Columbia, is de- 

 scribed and figured by Dr. Lindley, I.e., as " immediately recog- 

 nized by its flowers having deep crimson spots, on a yellow 

 ground, and a deep crimson lip. The form of the latter again 

 approaches that of A. Clowesii, but it is less hairy; and the la- 

 teral lobes are blunt, as well as shorter. Moreover, it is not resu- 

 pinate, in the common acceptation of the term." Our specimen, 

 here represented, instead of having the ground-colour of the 

 inside of the flower yellow with red spots, is, except the la- 

 bellum, of a deep rich blood-colour, a variety recorded in the 

 ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' as being in the possession of Messrs. 

 Rollison, to whom we are indebted for the plant here figured. 

 The size and colour and form of the nWer are very striking. 



Fig I. Label! urn : — hwijnijied. 

 JUNE lbT, 1863. 



