Tap. 6656. 
UTRIC ULARIA Enpresi. 
Native of Costa Rica. 
Nat. Ord, LENTIBULARIER. 
Genus Urarcunanra, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 987.) _ 
Urricutaria Endresii; terrestris et epiphytica, cespitosa, glaberrima, caulibus 
repentibus tuberculiferis, foliis deciduis lanceolatis in petiolum gracilem angus- 
tatis acutis undulatis, scapo elongato erecto 4—5-flore hic illic foliis parvis 
linearibus v, subulatis aucto, bracteis oblongis lanceolatisve, floribus amplis 
pallide lilacinis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, corolle labiis amplis undulatis ciliolatis, 
superiore orbiculari subplicato, basi subtruncato, inferiore ter majore latiore 
quam longo subobcordato v. latissime cuneato angulis rotundatis, palato promi- 
nente marginibus in auriculas obtusas elevatis, calcare robusto incurvo labio 
inferiore breviore. 
U. Endresii, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 582. 
This, as Dr. Reichenbach well indicates under his 
description, is very closely allied to U. montana (Plate 
5923), and except the colour of the flower, much more 
slender habit, and very membranous leaves, it is not easy 
to point out any other prominent distinguishing characters 
between them, except perhaps the beautiful microscopic 
fringe of the corolla of U. Endresii, of which I see no trace 
in its ally. Another near neighbour is U. Humboldtii, 
Schomb., of the marshes of Guiana, figured in the Annales 
de Gand (vol. i. tab. 34); this, according to the rude figure 
(apparently made from herbarium specimens), is a still 
more robust plant, with a very broad leaf, a flower almost 
twice as large, dark blue, with a cuneiform lower lip, and a 
long spur. 
_ U. Hndresii inhabits the hills of Costa Rica at an eleva- 
tion of 2000 feet, where it was discovered by Sefior Endres 
in 1868, who describes the leaves as deciduous, whence no 
doubt the plant should have a resting season. The speci- 
men figured flowered at Kew in the cool Orchid House in 
the spring of the present year. 
NOVEMBER lst, 1882. 
