Tas. 5802. 
MORMODES GREENII. 
Mr. Charles Green's Mormodes. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipe&®.—GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char.— Sepalum superius fornicatum angustum ; lateralia conformia 
reflexa. Petala sublatiora conformia. Labellum selleforme, ascendens, 
truobatum, subcuneatum, apiculatum v. lineare apice dilatato cucullato cum 
columna articulatum. Columna semiteres; clinandrium postice acumina- 
tum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudicule crasse affixa, glandule 
carnose crasse adherentia.—Herbe Americe tropice incole. Pseudobulbe 
oblonge. Folia elongato-lanceolata, sepius plicata, membranacea. Flores 
| numerosi, in racemos sepius pendulos dispositi, speciosi v. luridi. 
Mormopes Greenii ; pseudobulbis ovoideo-cylindricis subancipitibus, foliis 
subtus glaucis elongato-lanceolatis pedalibus, racemo magno pendulo 
longe pedunculato multifloro, sepulis petalisque subequalibus patentibus 
ovato-oblongis auctis subconcavis extus pallidis intus flavis creberrime 
rubro-maculatis, labello e basi lineari incurvo apice in laminam cucul- 
latam fimbriatam acuminatam dilatato. 
This noble species was flowered by our friend Mr. W. Wilson 
Saunders, F.R.S., from imported bulbs purchased at one of 
Stevens’ sales. It seems to differ entirely from any species 
hitherto published, and I have dedicated it to Mr. Charles 
Green, one of the most accomplished and skilful of English 
gardeners, who for many years managed the immense collec- 
tion of herbaceous plants cultivated by the late Mr. Borrer, 
and since then has cultivated with equal skill the very dif- 
ferent and far richer and more varied horticultural collections of 
the Maczenas of scientific gardeners, Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, © 
of Reigate. The specimen here figured flowered in June, 
oa 1869, and exhaled a powerful aromatic odour. 
-Dascr. Pseudo-bulbs broadly fusiform, somewhat two-edged. 
Leaves narrow-lanceolate, one to one and a half feet long, 
eee _ NOVEMBER Ist, 1869. 
