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CYCHNOCHES parsatum. 
Bearded Cychnoches. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4215.) 
Cycunocuss darbatum ; pseudo-bulbo ovato compresso demum nudo apice fo- 
lioso, folio solitario elliptico-oblongo utrinque attenuato plicato, racemo 
radicali longe pedunculato, pedunculo ovariisque pilosis, sepalis petalisque 
conformibus lanceolatis patentissimis, labelli facie superiore barbato, hypo- 
chilio alte alato, epichilio cordato-ovato obscure trilobo subreflexo. 
CycunocieEs barbatum. Lindl. MSS. 
From Mrs. Lawrence’s rich collection at Ealing Park, recently 
imported from Costa Rica.—A singular and handsome plant, 
referred to Cychnoches by Dr. Lindley, but which appears to me 
almost to connect Gongora with that very sportive genus :— 
indeed, but for the free column (not bearing the upper sepal), I 
should have had little hesitation in referring it to the latter genus. 
_Duscr. A young plant scarcely exhibits a pseudo-bulb at all, 
only several, imbricating, leafy scales, terminated by an oblong- 
oval, acuminated, plaited Zeaf. When the leaf is fully developed 
the almost naked pseudo-bulb appears, ovate, compressed, green, 
- smooth, with the withered scales at the base. Scape from the 
_ sase of the pseudo-bulb, a foot long, dark purple, pubescent or 
 aairy, jointed, sheathed with scales at the Joints: this is a5 
nated by a drooping many-flowered raceme, a foot long, of : lic 
the rachis and pedicel-like ovaries are dark-purple and is 
_ Flowers moderately large, at first sight a good deal eee ing 
those of Gongora maculata, but larger. Sepals and petals : e, 
_ very spreading, almost reflexed in the opposite pee or 
_ the column, narrow-lanceolate, acute, dull y ellow, spoyed wi 
purple. Zip pendent (almost at right angles with the —- 
formed into two portions as it were, and very ge ar 7 
on the upper surface, white, tinged with yellow, an : gan ly 
spotted with deep blood-colour: the lower or hypochilium 1s 
NOVEMBER lst, 1849. us 
