Tas. 4682. 
SOBRALIA CHLORANTHA. 
Yellow-flowered Sobralia. 
Nat. Ord. OrcnuipEx.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4446.) 
Sopratsa chlorantha ; epiphyta? caule brevi, foliis paucis terminalibus elliptico- 
ovatis obtusiusculis subcoriaceis remote striatis longe vaginatis inferiore 
majore superiore bracteaeformi, flore solitario terminali sessili Iuteo, petalis 
sepalisque «qualibus conniventibus lanceolatis, labello sepalis parum longiore 
obovato disco striato margine undulato intus disco pone basin elevato, co- 
lumne apice lobis lateralibus brevibus. 
Received in a flowering state from the stove of Messrs. Lu- 
combe, Pince, and Co., in June, 1852. It was sent to them by 
Mr. Yates, from Para, in Brazil. The flowers are in general 
structure like those of Sobralia, but of a yellow colour, and with 
foliage more like that of some Caiéleya, thick and _ leathery. 
Poeppig and Endlicher have a genus Cyathoglottis (Nov. Gen. et 
Sp. Plant., ete., p. 55), which they distinguish from Sobralia by 
very slight characters, adding “ Sodraiie tamen proxime affine 
videtur,” and which has yellow or white flowers: but the anther 
should be terminal, not, as here, attached to the middle lobe of 
owever, the lobes 
a trifid apex to the column. In our plant, h 
are shorter than in the red-flowered Sodralias, and the sepals as 
well as the petals are connivent and united for some length at 
the base. Whether the two genera be distinct or not, our mee 
cies by no means accords cither with Cyathoglotts crocea or C. 
candida, the only two described by Endlicher and Poeppig. 
Dzscr. With the root and base of the sfem we are unac- 
quainted. The portion sent to us is scarcely a span ape : 
cluding the leaves, and with no appearance of pseudo-bulb. : 
stem is about as thick as a goose-quill, nearly terete, covered for 
the most part with the long rather compressed sheathing bases 
of the leaves. Leaves two or three, very unequal in size; the 
lowest of them half a foot long, the uppermost from one to 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1852. 
