Tas. 6311. 
NOTYLIA ALBIDA. 
Native of Central America. 
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE”%.—Tribe VanDEz. 
Genus Norytia, Lindl. (Reichb. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 670.) 
Noryi1a albida ; pseudobulbis  parvis cespitosis costatis unifoliatis, foliis 
planis lineari-oblongis obtusis apiculatis in petiolum brevem compressum 
antice sulcatum angustatis coriaceis aveniis, racemo breviter pedunculato elon- 
gato cylindraceo densifloro, rachi et pedunculo crasso, bracteis subulatis, 
floribus imbricatis albidis, sepalo dorsali fere orbiculari, lateralibus in unum 
ovatum apice 2-bifidum labello-suppositum connatis, petalis oblongo-obovatis 
subacutis, labello breviter unguiculato trulliformi acuto ecalloso et ecarinato 
angulis posticis acutis, columna breviuscula glabra, anthera elongata. 
N. albida, Klotzsch in Otto and Dietr. Alg. Gartenzeit. 1851, p. 21; Reichb. f., 
Xen. Orchid. vol. 1, p. 47, et in Walp, Ann. vol. vi. p. 674, et in Gard. Chron. 
1870, p. 987. 
Notylia is on the whole an inconspicuous genus of orchids, 
containing some eighteen species, skilfully diagnosed by 
Reichenbach in Walper’s Annals. It is a native of South 
America, from Mexico to Brazil. The species here figured is 
one of the largest flowered ones, though inferior in this respect 
to some others, as it isin colour. Reichenbach well remarks 
that it resembles an Zria in habit and colour, or a small- 
flowered Angraecum. It was discovered, I believe, by 
Warscewicz, in Central America, and sent by him to the Royal 
Horticultural Suciety’s Gardens many years ago, since which 
time it has been re-imported by Messrs. Veitch, to whom I 
am indebted for the specimen here figured, which first flowered 
April, 1872, in Messrs. Veitch’s nursery. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs one-half to an inch long, compressed, 
deeply grooved in front, pale green. Leaves, one from the 
top of each pseudobulb, four to five inches long, linear- 
oblong, rounded and apiculate at the tip, flat, coriaceous, 
nerveless, keeled beneath, pale green, narrowed into a short 
stout flattened petiole about one-third of an inch long. Raceme 
Aucust IsT, 1877. 
