Tan. 4455. 
MORMODES LENTIGINOSA. 
Freckled Mormodes. 
- Nat. Ord. OncHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4214.) 
Mormoptss lentiginosa ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis, foliis lanceolatis striatis, scapo 
radicali racemoso, floribus remotis pendulis punctis rufo-fuscis irroratis, 
sepalis arcte reflexis oblongis acutis marginibus revolutis, petalis conformi- 
bus, labelli obovati lateribus revolutis, columna oblique torta apice acu- 
minato. 
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A new and very remarkable species of Mormodes, quite un- 
like any hitherto figured or described, and equally with the 
subject of our last plate (Cyrtochilum citrinum) from the collec- 
tion of Mrs. Lawrence, and obtained from the same country. 
It flowers in April. 
Drscr. The young pseudo-bulbs are almost globose, leafy : 
the old ones are oblong, terete, and partially sheathed with the 
withered membranous bases of the old leayes. Leaves, in the 
plant before us, a span long, lanceolate, membranaceous, striated. 
Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, a foot or a foot and a 
half high, racemose, flexuose where the remote drooping flowers 
are inserted. Bracteas small, membranaceous, acuminated. 
The general colour of the flower is pale reddish-brown, every- 
where sprinkled with dark-coloured dots. Sepals and petals 
oblong, acute, with margins singularly recurved, the former 
(sepals) refracted, the petals having an opposite direction, the 
same as that of the column and lip. Lip rather large, fleshy, 
obovate, entire, the sides entirely curved back, revolute, almost 
like the flaps of a saddle. Column shorter than the lip, semi- 
terete, curved, and having a singularly oblique twist, acuminated. 
Anthers taking the same shape as the apex of the column, and 
“hence much acuminated too: the colour is a deeper red than the 
rest of the flower. W. J. H. ve 
Cur. This Orchid may be potted in loose turfy peat. During 
JULY lst 1849. — 
