EXE SOC, 
MORMODES’ PARDINA: 
LEOPARD-LIKE MORMODES. 
Trisus: VAN DE@®.—Linptey. 
MORMODES.—Lindley, Bot. Reg. 1861. 
SEPALA, et petala subequalia libera, conniventia vel reflexa. Labellum 
membranaceum, selleforme, trilobatum, ascendens, cum columna articulatum. 
Columna semiteres, mutica, semi-torta; gynizus longus angustus; clinandrium 
postice acuminatum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudicule crasse affixa, elan- 
dule carnose crasse adherenti.Herbe epiphyte American, caulibus brevi- 
bus fusiformibus. Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales. Florés race- 
moOsi, speciosi. 
Mormopves Pardina, pseudo-bulbis vestitis foliis strictis 4-plo brevioribus; racemo nutante multi- 
floro foliis breviore, sepalis petalisque subaqualibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis, conniventibus, labelli trilobi 
lobis lateralibus acutis decurvis intermedio elongato acuminato. 
Cyclosia Maculata, Ktorzscn in Aligem. Garténzeitung, No. 89, 1838. 
Habitat in Oaxacd. Karwinsxt. 
Description, 
PSEUDO-BULBS, a foot long, turbinate, covered (and in aged specimens rendered prickly) by 
the sheathing bases of the numerous leaves. Lraves, in full-sized specimens, upwards of two feet 
long, not more than an inch wide, and tapering very much at the extremities. Roors thick and Sleshy. 
Scape nodding, shorter than the leaves, producing from fifteen to twenty or thirty flowers, which 
are never more than half opened. Separs and Perars, nearly equal, an inch and a half long, con- 
nivent, ovate-lanceolate, acute, of a yellowish colour; covered over with numerous claret-coloured 
spots, except on their outside tips, where they are deeply stained with reddish brown. Lrp shorter 
than the petals, and, like them, speckled, but of a paler hue, saddle-shaped, membranaceous, 
deeply three-cleft ; its lateral lobes acute; beni downwards, shorter than the intermediate one, which 
is acuminate, Column turned half round, so as to appear to look askance at the spectator. ANTHER 
and POLLEN-MASSES, as in CATASETUM. 
MORMODES Pardina is a native of Oaxaca, where it was originally discovered by Baron 
Karwinskr. It formed a part of a most extensive collection of vegetable treasures, which that distinguished 
traveller had assembled during his researches in New Spain, and which he attempted to bring with him on 
his return to Europe. Unfortunately, however, the vessel in which he sailed was wrecked on one of the 
West India Isles, and thus by far the greater portion of his living collections were consigned to a watery 
grave. The individual from which our figure is taken was one of the few survivors, and was communicated 
to us by the Baron in the year 1836. A pale self-coloured variety has more recently been introduced by 
Mr. Barker, by whom specimens were obligingly forwarded to us in the Autumn of 1838. The species 
also appears to have found its way into Germany, having been described by that excellent Botanist, Dr. 
Krorzscu, in the “ A//gemeinen Gartenzeitung,’ under the name of “ Cyclosia maculata ;’ but this name 
* From poppa, a frightful-looking object, a goblin, in allusion to the strange appearance of the flowers. 
