‘Tas. 8768. 
GOVENIA TINGENs. 
Peru. 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe VANDEAE. 
Goventa, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 542. 
Govenia tingens, Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. iii. p. 5, t. 107, fig. 1-7; 
Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 835, et in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 559 (excl. 
syn.); species a G. Gardneri, Hook., bracteis longioribus et labello latiore 
differt. 
Herba terrestris. Caulis erectus, brevis, diphyllus. Folia sessilia, recurva, 
elliptico-oblonga, breviter et abrupte acuminata, plicata, 21-29 cm. longa, 
6-8 cm. lata, submembranacea. Scapi erecti, 20-30 cm. alti, medio vagina 
spathacea obtecti; racemi multifiori, 10-15 cm. longi; bracteae lanceo- 
latae acutae, 1°5-2 cm. longae; pedicelli subgraciles, 1°5-2 cm. longi. 
Flores mediocres, albescentes, petalis minute roseo-punctulatis, labello 
flavo-viride. Sepalwm posticum incurvum, oblongum, obtusum, con- 
cavum, circiter 1°5 cm. longum; sepala lateralia falcata, obovato-oblonga, 
obtusa, 1-1'2 cm. longa. Petala subfalcato-oblonga, obtusa, 1-1°3 cm. 
longa. Labellwm late subpandurato-oblongum, apiculatum, 0°7-0°9 cm. 
longum; discus tricarinatus. Colwmna incurva, oblonga, late alata, 
0°7-0°8 cm. longa; pollinia subglobosa, glandula parva.—R. A. Roure. 
Govenia tingens, the subject of our illustration, was 
originally described and figured by Poeppig and Endlicher 
in 1838 from material collected in the dense forests of 
eastern Peru at Cuchero and Pampayaca. A specimen 
collected at Chacapoyas by Matthews is probably iden- 
tical with the original plant, and examples of a Govenia 
introduced from Peru by Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. 
Albans, through their collector, Forget, which flowered in 
February, 1915, were tentatively referred to G. tingens. 
The genus Govenia is a very natural one, most of the 
members of which are extremely similar in habit ; indeed, 
Lindley has remarked that among the genera of Orchids 
there is not one whose species are so difficult to distinguish 
from each other. In a dried state they are so much 
alike if the specimens have been similarly prepared, or 
they may vary so much in appearance, owing to the 
JuLY-SEpremBer, 1918. 
