Tas. 7474. 
COCHLIODA Nozztrana. 
Native of Peru. 
Nat. Ord. OncuwpEa.—Tribe Vanvex. 
Genus Cocutiopa, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 560.) 
Cocuttopa Noezliana; pseudobulbis confertis ovoideo-oblongis compressis 
rugulosis, folio sessili lineari-oblongo obtuso carinato, scapo suberecto 
plurivaginato, racemo elongato nutante laxe multifloro, bracteis pedi- 
cellis duplo brevioribus, floribus 1-1} poll. latis roseis, sepalis late ovatis 
acutis, dorsali erecto, lateralibus recurvis v. fere revolutis, petalis 
angustioribus oblanceolatis rectis, labello sepalis breviore, ungue erecto 
column adnato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis reflexis, lobo medio obcordato 
deflexo, disco callis 2 lineari-oblongis instructo, columna leyiter incurva, 
clinandrio membrana angusta 3-loba circumdato, anthera subhemispherica 
obscure rostrata, polliniis oblongis stipite crassiusculo obovato, glandula 
depressa postice appendiculata. 
C. Noezliana, Rolfe in Lindenia, vol. vi. (1891) p. 55, t. 266. Orchidophile 
(1892) 272 (Noetylana). Rev. Hortic. Belg. vol. xviii. (1892) p. 49, t. 5. 
Werner Orchid. Alb. vol. xi. t. 509. Gartenfl. (1894) t. 1403. Gard. 
Chron, (1894) vol. ii. p. 71, fig. 11. Vettch Man. Orchid. Pt. ix. p. 187. 
Odontoglossum Noezlianum, Hort. ex Gard, Chron, (1892) vol. ii. p. 570, 
602. Journ. des Orchid. vol. i. p. 294. 
The characters and limits as then known of the genus 
Cochlioda were first accurately determined by Bentham, 
and laid down by him in the “ Genera Plantarum,” where, 
to the solitary species on which Lindley founded the genus, 
five are added, most of them taken out of Mesospinidium and 
Odontoglossum. Three of these have been already figured 
in this work as Odontoglossum roseum, Lindl. (Plate 6084) ; 
Mesospinidium sanguinewm, Reichb. f. (Plate 5627); and 
M. vulcanicum, Reichb. f. (t. 6001). All are natives of 
Peru or Ecuador, and all, including C. Noezliana, are in 
cultivation at Kew. 
C. Noezliana was discovered by Mr. John Noezli, and 
sent by him in 1891 to Messrs. Linden, by whom it was 
distributed. It has also been independently introduced 
‘into England by Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth and 
Company, who informed Messrs. Veitch that it was col- 
lected in Northern Peru, near the locality in which C. 
vulcanica is found. The latter plant was discovered by 
Spruce in 1871, on the volcanic mountain of Tunguragua, 
May Ist, 1896. 
