TAB. 8766. 
GONGORA LATISEPALA. © 
Colombia. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. 
Gonaora, Ruiz ct Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 549. 
Gongora latisepala, Rolfe; species nova a G. odoratissima, Lem., sepalis 
multo brevioribus latioribusque et floribus ommino copiose maculatis 
differt. 
Herba epiphytica, Pseudobulbi aggregati, ovoidei, subcompressi, leviter sulcati, 
4°5-5 cm. longi, 2-2°5 cm. lati, vaginis ovatis acutis obtecti, diphylli. Mola 
breviter petiolata, elliptica vel lanceolato-elliptica, acuminata, subrecurva, 
plicata, circiter 25 cm. longa, 5 cm. lata. Scapi arcuati vel subpenduli, basi 
vaginis brevibus obtecti, 15-18 cm, longi; racemi multiflori; bracteac 
ovato-oblongae, acutae, 3-5 mm. longae ; pedicelli graciles, arcuati, 2-3 cm. 
longi. lors speciosi, copiose brunneo-maculati. Sepalwm posticum basi 
columnae adnatum, elliptico-lanceolatum, acutum, 175-2 cm. longum, 
margine recurvum; sepala lateyalia basi columnae pedi adnata, valde 
reflexa, ovata, acuminata, 2°5-3 cm. longa, margine recurva. Petala. cum 
sepalo postico basi columnae adnata, oblique falcato-linearia, acuminata, 
circiter 1 em. longa. Labellwm cum pede columnae continuum, patens, 
angustum, a latere compressum, carnosum, circiter 2 em. longum, basi 
breviter unguiculatum, medio articulatum; hypochilium obovato-oblongum, 
infra medium utrinque cornu incurvo breve instructum, apice ubrinque 
aristis setiformibus circiter 1 cm. longis notatum; epichilium lateraliter 
compressum, anguste triangulare, acuminatum, circiter 0°8 cm. longum, 
basi angulatum. Colwmna arcuata, gracilis, circiter 2 cm. longa, apice 
angulata; pollinia 2, anguste ovoideo-oblonga; stipes oblongus; glandula 
squamiformis.—R. A. Ror. 
The striking Gongvra here figured is one of the plants 
which formed part of the collection of the late Sir ‘Trevor 
Lawrence, presented to Kew by the late Lady Lawrence 
in 1914. This particular plant bore no name and no 
indication of its origin. When it subsequently flowered 
at Kew it was not possible to identify it with any named 
specimen, though it was found to match so closely an 
unnamed one belonging to the herbarium of the late 
Consul Lehmann as to leave little doubt that the two are 
forms of one species. The Lehmann spécimen was 
collected in 1899 on the banks of the Timbiqui in the 
_ JuLy-Seprempsr, 1918. — 
