Tab. 8689. 

 HUNTLEYA citkina. 



Columbia, 



Orchidaceae. Tribe Vandeae. 



Hoktleya, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. sub t. 1991. Zygopetalum §Huntleya, Bcnth. 

 et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 543. 



Huntleya citrina, Bolfe ; ab H. apiculata, Eolfe (Batemannia apiculata, 

 Beichb. /.) flonbus citrinis nee albis, et labelli dentibus valde incurvis differt. 



Herba epiphytica. Folia numerosa, disticba, suberecta, oblanceolato-oblonga 

 acuta, 15-22 cm. longa, 2-2-8 cm. lata, plicata, pallide viridia, basi 

 attenuata et conduplicata. Flores axillares, solitarii, citrini, labelli crista 

 sanguinea. Bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, in axillis foliorum inclusae. 

 Pedicelli circiter 5 cm. longi. Sepala patentia, ovata, acuta, circiter 2 cm.' 

 longa. Petala elliptico-ovata, acuta, sepalis subaequalibus. Labellum 

 breviter unguiculatum, 1*5 cm. longum, trilobum ; lobus intermedius late 

 ovatus, apiculatus, circiter 1-5 cm. latus ; lobi laterales auriculati, sub- 

 erecti, breves, marginibus in dentibus subulatis valde incurvis extensis 

 antice cum crista denticulata continuis. Columna incurva, circiter 0' 5 cm. 

 longa, alis auriculatis. Pollinia 4, pyriformia, glandula pandurato-oblonga 

 amxa. — B. A. Bolfe. 



The attractive Orchid here figured has a somewhat 

 obscure, history. It formed part of the collection of the 

 late Sir Trevor Lawrence at Burford, Dorking, and was 

 one of the species which the late Lady Lawrence pre- 

 sented to Kew in 1914. In the Burford collection it was 

 grown as a Chondrorhyncha, though there was no evidence 

 as to whence the plant had come or by whom this name 

 had been suggested. At Kew it has thriven well in a 

 tropical house under the conditions suitable for species 

 of Zygopetalum, and in July, 1915, it produced the flowers 

 which enabled our figure to be prepared. In the orchid 

 collection of the late Consul F. C. Lehmann, Mr. Rolfe 

 has found two drawings of the species here represented. 

 Neither has been named, but one of them bears a refer- 

 ence by Lehmann to an unnumbered and unnamed speci- 

 men, and this specimen is in turn accompanied by a cross 

 reference to the unnumbered drawing. The Lehmann 

 herbarium contains two other specimens of the same 

 species, one referred to the genus Huntleya, the other to 

 Batemannia. Thus all three Lehmann specimens, as well 



December, 1916. 



