Tas. 7692. 
CORYANTHES maocrantTHa. 
Native of: Guiana and Venezuela. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuEs.—Tribe VANDEX. 
Genus Coryantues, Hook.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549.) 
— CoryantHEs macrantha; pseudobulbis 5-6-pollicaribus angustis alte costatis, 
foliis pedalibus oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis, pedunculo valido 
pendulo bifloro, pedicellis 6-pollicaribus sulcatis basi bractea 2-pollicari 
spathacea instructis, floribus amplis expansis 6 poll. longis flavidis 
maculis sanguineis fere ubique conspersis, sepalo dorsali 2-pollicari 
oblongo-lanceolato torto, lateralibus maximis 4-5 poll. longis reflexis 
lunatis infra. medium postice gibboso-lobatis’ apicibus tortis, petalis 
pendulis 2-23 poll, longis lanceolatis undulatis, labelli maximi ungue 
- pollicari robusto tereti basi lamellis 2 oblongis porrectis recurvis aucto 
_ hypochilio globoso-reniformi inflato 1} poll. diam., epichilio maximo 
crateriformi basi in unguem latum dorso crasse 4-5-lamellatum lamellis 
reflexis angustato, antice truncato quadrilobo, columna crassa supra 
medium recurva dilatata apice contracta bicornuta cornubus obtusis 
incurvis. 
©. macrantha, Hook. Bot. Mag. sub t. 3102. Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 
p. 159. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1841. Paat. Mag. Bot. vol. v. p. 31, 
cum ic. Hartinger, Parad. Vindob. p. 19, +. 32, fig. 2. Linden, Pescatorea, 
t. 30. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. ii. p. 41. 
Goncora macrantha, Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. ii. p. 151, t. 80. 
The noble Orchid here figured was discovered by the 
late David Lockhart, Superintendent (1823 to 1846) of 
the Trinidad Botanical Gardens, when on a_ visit to 
Caraceas in 1828, whence he brought plants which flowered 
in those gardens in the autumn of the following year. 
Lockhart’s previous career was an eventful one, for he 
was the sole survivor of the staff of Captain Tuckey’s ill- 
fated Expedition to the Congo River in 1816, to which he, 
then a young gardener at Kew, was appointed by Sir 
Joseph Banks, as assistant to Christian Smith, the 
naturalist to the Expedition. Lockhart sent a flower 
preserved in spirits to Sir William (then Dr.) Hooker, 
who figured and described it in his Botanical Miscellany. 
The specimen here figured, which flowered in a tropical 
house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May of last year, was — 
received in the previous May from Mr. Hart, F'.L.8., Super- - 
January Ist, 1900. 
