Pépi 71238, 
LUEDDEMANNIA Pascatorer, 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Orncuipem.—Tribe VanDE&. 
Genus Lugppsmanyus, Reichd. f. in Bonpland. vol. ii. (1854) p. 281. 
LUEDDEMANNIA Pescatorei; pseudobulbis ovoideis compressis leviter sulcatis, 
apice plurifoliatis, foliis pedalibus sessilibus elliptico-lanceolatis acutis, 
scapo robusto a basi pseudobulbi decurvo, spathis paucis brevibus 
appressis, racemo longissimo pendulo cylindraceo densifloro, rachi valido 
fusco-rubro, ovariis brevibus pubescentibus, floribus 2-poll. latis, sepalis 
oblongis obtusis incurvis luteis fusco-rubro-irroratis, petalis sepalis 
equilongis spathulato-ob vatis aureis, labelli crocei basi rubro maculato 
lobis lateralibus ¢rectis oblongis obtusis terminali linguiformi basi non 
constricto recurvo marginibus pubescentibus, disco inter lobos laterales 
cristato pubescente. 
L. Pescatorei, Lind. & Reichb. f. 1. c.; Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 563, & in Journ. 
Royal Hort, Soc. vol. vii. (1886) p. 20; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, 
pars ii. p. 183; Pescatorea, vol. i. t. 22. 
Cycnoches Pescatorei, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. i. (1850-1) p. 123. 
Acineta glauca, Hort. Linden. 
At the date of publication of the “Genera Plantarum ” 
the genus Lueddemannia was very imperfectly known, and 
in the-absence of flowers with pollen, Bentham reduced it — 
to Cycnoches, observing that (according to Reichenbach) it 
differed only in the pollinia being sessile on the minute 
caudicle. Reichenbach himself says (in Bonplandia) that 
Lueddemannia differs from Lacena (see tab. 6516 of this 
Magazine) in the depressed spherical two-lobed ? pollinia, by 
which it also differs from Cycnoches, and he describes the 
genus as having the habit of Acineta and Peristeria, and 
as Closely allied to Cycnoches barbatum, Lindl. (Bor. Mac. 
t. 4479), which is the Polycycnis lepida, Reichb. f, (in Bon- 
pland. 1855, p. 218). 
The above-named genera may be divided into two 
natural groups, those with pseudobulbs bearing on their 
sides leaves or sheaths to which belongs Cycnoches ; all 
the rest having this organ perfectly naked and leafing 
at the summit only. Of these latter Peristeria is dis. 
tinguished by its suberect scapes, globose flowers, and 
JvLy Ist, 1890. 
