Tas. 8268. 
CYCNOCHES pensirLorum. 
; Colombia. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. 
Cyonocues, Lindl.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 552. 
_ Cyenoches densiflorum, Rolfe in Kew Bull. 1909, p. 63; Orch. Rev. 1909, 
p. 104, fig. 9; a C. Rossiano, Rolfe, racemis masculis multo brevioribus 
et densifloris diversum. 
Herba, pseudobulbi erecti, teretes, circa 15 cm. longi, vaginis membranaceis 
vestiti. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta vel acuminata, recurva, sub- 
undulata, circa 12-16 em. longa, 3-4 cm. lata. lores monoici. Racemi 
masculi penduli, multiflori, densiflori, cirea 35 cm. longi. Bracteae lanceo- 
latae, acuminatae, membranaceae, circa 1 cm. longae. Pedicelli graciles, 
circa 2 cm. longi. Sepala et petala membranacea, oblongo-lanceolata, 
subacuta, recurva, viridia purpureo-maculata, 2-2°5 cm. longa. Labellum 
unguiculatum, circa 1°5 cm. longum; lamina cochlearis, apice longe 
acuminata, margine digitis clavatis vel capitatis utrinque instructa. 
Columna gracilis, incurva, 2°5 cm. longa. Racemi feminei suberecti, 
breves, biflori, circa 5 cm. longi. Bracteae oblongo-lanceolatae, acutae, 
circa 1-7 cm. longae. Pedicelli crassi, arcuati, circa 4 cm. longi. Sepala 
et petala carnosula, patentia, oblonga, acuta, viridia, 3°5-4°5 em. longa. 
Labellum breviter unguiculatum, ovatum, acutum, integrum, crasso- 
carnosum, eburneum, 3 cm. longum, 2 cm. latum, basi callo transverso 
instructum. Columna crassa, clavata, incurva, circa 1°3 em. longa,— 
C. maculatum, Gard. Chron. 1909, vol. xlv. pp. 26, 27, fig. 19; non Lindl. 
—R. A. Roure. 
This remarkable Colombian orchid flowered in the collec- 
tion of the Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham Vicarage, 
Chichester, in November, 1908, shortly after having been 
obtained from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. It appeared 
unexpectedly among some species of Mormodes collected at 
Simacota, near the River Opon, Colombia, by Mr. J. 
Birchenali. It is interesting on account of the great 
diversity between the sexes, which, as in the present 
instance, are occasionally borne together upon the same 
pseudobulb, the females being many times larger and 
heavier than the males, and different not only in the shape 
of the sexual organs, but also in the shape, texture and 
colour of the perianth. The column of the male is long 
and slender, bearing the anther at the summit, while in 
Aveust, 1909, 
