Tab. 7332. 

 sobralia xantholeuca. 



Native of Central America. 



Nat. Ord. Orciiide^. — Tribe NzoTTIKA. 

 Genus Sobbaua, Ruiz 8f Pav. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. PL vol. iii. p. 590.) 



Soivralia xantholeuca ; elata, caulibus fnsco-maculatis, foliis lanceolatis 

 attennato-acuminatis 8-10-nerviis, bracteis paucis 1-2-pollicaribns line- 

 aribus viridibus acutis, floribus maxitnis terminalibus sessilibus citrirus, 

 sepalis 4|-pollicai - ibus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis consimilibius 

 panllo brevioribus, labelli sepalis asqnilongi tabo cylindraceo, lamina 

 ampla rotundata, marginibus late recurvis crispato-undulatis et crenatis, 

 fauce aurea luteo striolata. 



S. xantholeuca (fteichb. f. ?) in TTort. Vereekaff. (1831). Warner and 

 Williams, Orchid- Album, vol. vi. t. 250. E. Andre in 1{. r. H<,)-{ic. 1890, 

 p. 12 cum Ic. Sander, Reichenbachia, vol. i. p. 201, t. 44. Garden, vol. 

 xxii. p. 508, t. 366. Williams Orchid Qrowert' Mem, Ed. (', n. :,7c, 

 Gard. Chron. (1889), i. p. 8, f. 1. 



This magnificent species, which rivals in the size of its 

 flowers 8. macrantha, Lindl. (Plate 4446), and is of a 

 much stouter habit, is a native of the same country, 

 Guatemala, where it was discovered by Mr. H. Von 

 Turkheim, at Alt a Paz, in the province of St. Christobas, 

 at an elevation of 4500 feet above the sea. There is a 

 specimen of it in the Herbarium of Kew collected by its 

 discoverer, and presented, with a fine Herbarium from the 

 same country, by Capt. John Donnell Smith, of Baltimore, 

 author of a valuable " Catalogue of Guatemalan Plants," of 

 which three parts with good drawings of new species 

 have already appeared. The flowers of the native speci- 

 men are of the same dimensions as those of the cultivated 

 one here figured, as are others taken from plants grown 

 in this country. In the " Gardener's Chronicle " cited 

 above, mention is made, and an excellent wood-engraving 

 given, of a specimen in the collection of T. Harcourt 

 Pownall, Esq., of Drinkstone Park, Bury St. Edmund's, 

 bearing eight opened flowers, and in the same work it is 

 stated that at later periods the same plant bore in succes- 



J'axuauy 1st. 1894. 



