__ §. Rodigasiana is a native of New Grenada, and was dis- 
covered in the State of Antioquia, in 1896, by Mr. Florent 
Claes, of Brussels, and first flowered in the celebrated 
collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford, 
Dorking, in June, 1898, from which plant the present 
illustration was prepared about a year later. 
As regards culture it agrees with other species of the 
genus in its requirements. 
Descr.—Pseudobulbs ovoid, monophyllous, one to one 
and a half inches long, light green. Leaves shortly 
petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, eight to ten inches long, 
_ bright green above, paler beneath, with three prominent 
nerves. Scape pendulous, about nine inches long, one- 
flowered; bract spathaceous, acute, membranous, an 
_ inch or more long; pedicel three inches long. lowers 
_ nearly six inches in diameter. Sepals spreading, ovate- 
_ oblong, sub-obtuse, concave, three inches long, more or 
___ less marbled with dull purple below, and: bearing large 
- bright maroon blotches above. Petals triangular-lanceo- 
late, attenuate above and recurved, three inches long, 
very pale green. Lip rather longer than the sepals, 
very fleshy; hypochile narrow at the base, dilated and 
the rest similarly blotched on a paler ground; arms of 
_ mesochile suddenly dilated and hatchet-shaped, with the 
front angle prolonged into an acuminate bristle, the other 
“=o 
- Fyeute: spotted with dull purple on a pale ground; epichile 
delicately articulated, triangular, elongate, obtuse, chan- 
rrelled above, dilated and saccate at the base, spotted with 
dull purple on a paler ground. Colwmn as long as the 
lip, curved, winged from the middle upwards, and extend- 
_ ing into a pair of curved oblong teeth at the apex, 
coloured like the lip; rostellum extending in a pair of 
_ diverging bristles, about half an inch long.—R. A. Rolfe. 
Fig. 1, epichile of lip; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—All 
enlarged. 
