598 ORCIIIDES. corryanthes. 



B. Pnrkeii. Sepals and petals whole-coloured pale yellow; hood dull purple, 

 bucket spoticd insidc with purpie, and with a purple neck. 



C. maculala Parkeri. Doi. Mag, l. 3747. 



C. punciata. Sepals and peials bright yellow, speckled with red; hood ycilow, 

 tinlod wiih reddish orange ; bucket pale. speckled and spotted wilh red.— B. R. t.l793 



D. Albertinae. Sepals and petols clear ycUow. with round crimson spots; hood 

 wlme. spotted wiih ricb rose ; buckel very deep crimson, spoticd inside. Flowers 

 larger than usual. 



C. Alherlinae Karsien, Auswahl t. 1. 



Wild on trunks of trees in the forests of Demerara (v. v.) ; Albertinae near St, 

 Esteban in Venezuela, on trees at ihe fool of the Cumbre of Valencia— Karsten. 



The essenlial difTerencc belweeu this and the last has been already explained. 

 C. Alberiinae is a variety of great beauty, but nothing raore, as far as can be ascer- 

 tained from Mr. Karsten's tigure and description. It is cultivated in Germany , but 

 bas not yet fonnd its way to this country. 



Obs. C. Alberlinae Karsten descr. cf. Walp. Ann. I. 784. — Eadem icon : Van 

 Iloutte Fl. Serres VIII. 755. and Pl. 1. Rchb. fil. 



3. CORYANTIJES SUMNERIANA Lindl. Gard. Chronicle 1856. 452. 



4. CORYANTHES MACRANTHA Hooker I. c. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1841: 



C. hypochilio hemisphaerico subtrilobo anlice pubescente ungue 

 paulo breviore, mesochilio angustalo plicalo intus pubescente, epichilio 

 late conico margine palulo lobis lateralibus uncinatis. 



Gongora macrantha Hooker in Bot. Misc. t. 80. flgure inverted. 



Wild in the Caraccas. Lockhart. 



Flowers rich yellow , speckled with red, with the hood of ihe lip and a portion 

 of the bucket rich orange-brown. They are not half Ihe size of C. Feildin(jii ; have 

 a hemispherical downy hood and |not a broad saucersbaped woolly one ; the bucket 

 too is always distinctly conical, while that of Feildingii is even flattened. 



Obs. Adde : Pescatorea t. 29. 



5. CORYANTHES FEILDINGII Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. IIL 15. c. ic. : 



C. hypochilio subcompresso pateriformi antice tomentoso ungui aequali, 

 mesochilio dilatato plicato et verrucoso inlus tomentoso, epichilio sub- 

 quadralo margine patulo lobis lateralibus uncinntis. 



Wild — ? Purchased of a Nuseryman at Northampton. in 1842, by Colonel Feilding. 



Tlie gcneral colour of thc (lower is a pale brownish yellow, a little mottled and 

 stained with cinnamon in an irregular manner. When closed, it is about flve inches 

 long and three wide. As it unfolds the sepals and petals, which are membranous, 

 turn back, seem to fold up, and finally han^ drooping at the back of the lip and co- 

 lumn. The lip is borne by a thick horizonlal arm an inch and a half long, which 

 proceeds from ihe top of the Ilower-stalk , and consequently from ihc lower end of 

 the column. Right and left its base are placed two softish lleshy pale ear-like flngers. 

 At thc other end this horizontal arm expands into a convex hood , hairy in front but 

 bald on the crown ; a litlle compressed from thc back , and iwo inches across in its 

 principal diameter. Frora the hood hangs down a large fleshy bucket smooth at 

 the cdges , flattened at ihe end , two inches deep and as many wide, and connected 

 wjtli the hood by a hollowed fleshy slalk, which is slrongly mnrked by various trans- 

 verse fleshy! fokls, warts, and ridges. On the sidc next ihe column ihe hucket is 

 opened . and near the bottom of Ihe opening is furnisbed with three fleshy lobes , of 

 which the sharp-pointed laterals curve downwards and ihe middlc one stands erect, 

 rising just high enough lo come in contact wiih ihc head of ihe column, which 

 grows downwards so far as almost to touch it. The column is iwo inches and a 

 half long,'and throws back its head till its bosom becoines so round and large as 

 to be comparable to the breast of a ..puD^er" pigeon. The head of thc column divides 

 into two short flat flesliy curved arms, belween which ihc anther is scated. 



