Tas. 5592. 
FERNANDESIA rosvsta. 
Stout Fernandesia. 
Nat. Ord. Orcn1prm.—Gynanpria Monanprta. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala libera. Petala conformia, sub 
sepalo supremo conniventia. Labellum anticum v. posticum, ecalcaratum, 
liberum, trilobum, disco tuberculatum. Columna brevis, utrinque aurita. 
Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, solida, obovata.—Epiphyte caulescentes. 
Folia disticha, equitantia, imbricata. Racemi paucifiort, terminales v. late- 
rales. Flores parvi, lutei. Lindl. Gen. et Spee. 
Frrnayprsia robusta; foliis carinatis ensiformibus acutis pedunculis uni- 
floris subequalibus, bracteis triangulis cucullatis acutis, sepalis ob- 
longis apiculatis reflexis, petalis ovatis obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis basi- 
laribus magnis erectis obtusis incurvis, lobo intermedio dilatato qua- 
drifido cuneato lamellis crenulatis instructo, callo hexagono in im& 
basi, columne alis brevibus rotundatis. 
Frrnanpxsta robusta. Bateman, mss., haud Klotzsch. 
This, which is the largest of all the Fernandesias, was ori- 
ginally found in Guatemala by Mr. Skinner. More recently 
it has been reintroduced from the same country by that well- 
known ornithologist O. Salvin, Esq., who sent some plants 
of it to Kew, where they flowered freely, and enabled Mr. 
Fitch to prepare the figure on the opposite page. 
F. robusta is nearly allied to the Brazilian plant F. lunifera, 
figured under the name of Lockhartia lunifera in Reichen- 
_ bach’s ‘ Xenia’ (tab. 39. f. 3), but it comes from a totally dif- 
ferent country, is much larger in all its parts, has sharp-pointed 
instead of blunt leaves, and is moreover furnished with an 
hecagonal (instead of heart-shaped, as in F. lunifera) callus on 
the disc of itslip. It is easily grown in any house where Cat- 
leyas or Oncidiums succeed, and flowers at different seasons. 
Derscr. Stems upright, closely imbricated, about a foot 
high. Leaves keeled, an inch and a half long, sharp at the 
extremities. Peduncles drooping, about the length of the 
avGuUsT Ist, 1866. 
