Tas. 7238. 
RESTREPIA srerata. 
Native of New Grenada, 
Nat. Ord. OrncnipEs. Tribe ErrpenpRez. 
Genus Restreria, Humb.& Bonpl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. lii. p. 491.) 
Restrerta striata; ceespitosa, caulibus vaginis cymbiformibus pallidis striatis 
tectis, folio sessile late ovato subacuto v. apiculato v. 2-denticulato crasse 
coriaceo pallide viridi marginibus subrecurvis pallidioribus, floribus 
1-4 gracile pedicellatis, bractea parva ovario wquilonga, sepalo dorsali 
pollicari lanceolato in filum apice clavellatum angustato albo rubro 
fasciato, lateralibus in laminam lineari-oblongam apice bidentatam 
auream creberrime sanguineo striatam coherentibus, petalis sepalo 
dorsali consimilibus sed triente brevioribus, labello lineari apice 2-lobo 
basi auriculis incurvis apicibus sabulatis falcatis instructo grosse papilloso 
rubro-brunneo striato, columna gracili basi bigibbosa. 
R. striata, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. i. p. 187; Hogg in Journ, Hortic. 
1892, p. 275, fig. 45. 
Mr. Rolfe remarks of this little species, that, unlike 
the majority of the genus, the lateral sepals instead of being 
spotted are striped with seven sharply defined maroon lines 
on a yellow ground. The former is the case with the three 
species previously figured in this work, namely, the type 
of the genus R. antennifera, Humb. and Bonpl. (Plate 
6288, long the only known species, and considered one of 
the most singular of plants), R. elegans, Karst. (Plate 
5966), and R. Lansbergii (Plate 5257), which should 
bear the name of R. xanthopthalma, Reichb. f. (in Hamb. 
Gartenz. xxi. (1865) 300), a native of Guatemala, the true 
R. Lansbergii (Reichb. f. and Wagen. in Bonpland. ii. 23) 
being a native of Caraccas in Venezuela. 
R. striata was first known from the drawing of a flower 
in Kew Herbarium bearing the ticket, Schlim No. 68, and 
no doubt made from a new Grenadan specimen, from the 
Cauca range in which country Messrs. H. Low, of Clapton, 
sent specimens to Kew in 1892; but not till after the 
plant from which the accompanying drawing was made, 
May 1st, 1892. 
