| Tas. 7262. 
Me o MOOREA srrorata, Rolfe. 
Native of the Andes of South America. 
Nat. Ord. OncnipeE®. Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Moorza, Rolfe in Gard. Chron, 1890, vol. ii. p. 7. 
Gen. char. Sepala subsequalia, libera, patentia. -Petala sepalis subsimilia, 
sed basi angustiora. Jabellum sepalis minus, cam basi (pedi brevissimo) 
crasso columnz articulatum, sessile, profunde trilobum, lobis lateralibus 
majusculis auriculaformibus obtusis, intermedio subulato lateralibus 
paullo longiore porrecto, disco bicornuto inter cornua 3-calloso. 
Columna incurvo-erecta, robusta, basi incrassata, exalata. Anthera ter- 
minalis, hemispherica, incumbens; pollinia 4, subreniformia, paribus 
valde inzequalibus, apice stipitis anguste linearis basi viscosi affixa, glan- 
dula 0; rostellum inconspicuum; stigmate transverso.—Herba pseudo- 
bulbosa, elata. Pseudobulbi ovsidei, suleati, diphylli. Folia mazima, 
(3; pedalia), petiolata, elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, plicata, Scapus 
inter pseudobulbos enatus, validus, erectus, foliis multo brevior, vaginatus. 
Flores ampli, laxe racemosi, breviter pedicellati ; bracteze eymbiformes, 
acutz, ovario breviores, coriacex, persistentes. Sepala et petala coriacea, 
ochraceo-brunnea, basi pallidiora. Labelli lobi laterales straminei, pur- 
purei transverse striati, intermedio basi aureo apice purpureo ; cornua disci 
suberecta, obtusa, aurea rubro-punctata. Columna et anthera pallide 
straminex. 
M, irrorata, Rolfe in Gard. Chron, I. c. and 1892, 1. p. 489, tig. 73. 
A very handsome Orchid, closely allied to Houlletia, but 
generically distinguished by its author, Mr. Rolfe, by the 
lip being without a claw and articulate with the base or 
foot of the column, and by its mid-lobe or epichile not being 
articulate with the hypochile. It is named in honour of 
Mr. F. W. Moore, Curator of the Glasnevin Botanical 
Gardens, who worthily upholds the condition of those 
Gardens (so celebrated for the cultivation of Orchids) to 
which his father raised them. Unfortunately the native 
country of Moorea is only approximately known, it was 
bought by Mr. Moore at a sale of Orchids, and was pro- 
bably imported by Messrs. Shuttleworth, Carder & Co., 
from the Andes of New Grenada or Peru, those gentlemen 
having sent a flowering raceme, together with a leaf, to 
Novemser Ist, 1892. 
