TAB. 8700. 
ANGULOA Cu1rtont. 
: Colombia. 
Orcuipaceag, Tribe VaNDEAE, 
AnGuLoa, Ruiz et Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 548, 
Anguloa Cliftonii, Rolfe in Kew Bull. 1910, p-. 160; Gard. Chron. 1910, 
' vol. xlvii. p. 77; Jowrn. Hort. 1910, vol. i. p- 117, cum icon; Gard. Mag. 
1910, pp. 83, 84, cum icon.; Orchis, vol. viii. t. 8; Orch. Rev. 1912, 
p. 293; ab omnibus speciebus hujus generis labello unguiculato profunde 
trilobo medio saccato differt. 
Herba terrestris, 30-40 cm. alta; pseudobulbi aggregati, ovoideo-oblongi, 
11-15 cm. longi; 4°5-6°5 cm. lati, 2-8-phylli. Folia elliptico-oblonga, 
breviter acuminata, subundulata, plicata, basi attenuata, 15-30 cm. longa, 
7-9 cm. lata. Scapi erecti, crassiusculi, 20-25 cm. longi, vaginis 
spathaceis amplis subimbricatis obtecti; bracteae elliptico-lanceolatae, 
acutae, concavae, 5-6 cm. longae. Flores magni, subglobosi. Sepalum 
posticum elliptico-oblongum, subobtusum, incurvum, valde concavum, 
circiter 10 cm. longum, 5 cm. latum; sepala lateralia orbiculari-elliptica, 
concava, apice angustata et falcato-incurva, subacuta, 7°5 em. longa, 4 cm, 
lata, basi breviter connata et pedi columnae adnata. Petala orbiculari- 
ovata, valde concava, apice angustata, subobtusa, 7°5 cm. longa, 4°5 em. 
lata. Labellum unguiculatum, circiter 4 cm. longum; unguis ligulatus, 
1 cm. longus; limbus trilobus, basi saccatus; saccus 2 em. latus ; lobi 
laterales falcato-incurvi, oblongi, breves, obtusi, circiter 6 mm. longi ; 
lobus intermedius late unguiculatus; unguis 8 mm. longus, basi callo 
bilobo vel obcordato instructus ; limbus basi trulliformis vel triangularis, 
Shaegeins apice recurvus, acuminatus. Colwmna crassissima, 3°5 cm. 
onga, subreflexa, prominenter gibbosa, deinde basi subito reflexa et facie 
concava, infra antheram constricta; alae latae, subtruncatae; stigma 
marginatum, valde concavum.—Anguloa Ruckeri, var., Ledien in Orchis, 
vol. iv. p. 119, t. 8; non Lindl.—R. A. Rours. 
The handsome Anguloa here figured was introduced to 
cultivation by -Messrs. Charlesworth and Company, 
Haywards Heath, in whose nursery it flowered in July, 
1910, the plant passing into the collection of Mr. J. 
Talbot Clifton, Lytham Hall, Lancashire, to whom it 
was dedicated in the original description. A few years 
later a fresh importation was effected by Messrs. F. 
Sander and Sons, St. Albans. This species, A. Cliftoni, 
differs markedly from the previously known members of 
its genus in having a deeply saccate base to the lip, which 
Marcu, 1917, 
