GONGORA bufonia. 

 Toad-skinned Gongora. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. orcl. Orchidace.e, § Vande^e. 

 GONGORA. Botanical Register, vol. 19. fol. 1016. 



G. bufonia; liypocliilii convexi cornubus lateralibus obsoletis, aristis seta- 

 ceis, epichilio acuruinato paulo breviore, pedicellis columua triplo 

 lonsioribus. 



In May, 1839, I received this plant from Mr. Rucker, 

 with the following note : — 



" The accompanying- flower of a Gongora, which was 

 sent me last year from Hamburgh by a friend who had re- 

 ceived it from the Brazils, appears to me different from any 

 of the species I have seen. The pseudo-bulbs are as large 

 as in G. maculata, and are almost white ; the leaves are also 

 of a pale whitish green colour, and the whole appearance of 

 the plant is different from any I know." 



Upon comparing it with the other species of the genus 

 already in cultivation it is found to differ, not only in its sin- 

 gular colour, which is a dull purple, like wine-lees, in the 

 form of very irregular stains and spots, upon a dirty yellow 

 ground, but also in the minuter parts of its structure. 



It may be distinguished from G. fulva, maculata, and 

 atropuiyurea, in wanting the lateral horns which project 

 from the sides of the lower part of the lip in those species. 

 From G. nigrita, which equally wants those horns, it differs 

 in having much longer bristles, and a lip altogether longer, 

 especially at the lower half. 



It should be cultivated with other Orchidaceous plants in 



