ODNTOGLOSSDM. 



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87. ODONTOGLOSSUM COCHLIODA. Huc : Cochlioda Lindl. Fol. L „Feb. 21. 1853." 



Sepala petaloidea, patenlissirna, libera; lateralibus angustioribus la- 

 bello suppositis. 1'etala tenera, patentissima, sopalo dorsali aequalia. 

 Labellum tenerum, 3-partitum, ad medium usque columnae connatura, 

 decurrens: callis 2 linearibus apice verticaliter bivalvibus (cochleae ad 

 instar) sub anthera. Columna arcuata, eiongata, apice auriculata ; cli- 

 nandrio cucullato. Pollinia 2, oblonga, solida; caudicula rhombeo-ovali ; 

 glandula oblonga parum majore. Herba epiphyta, Peruviana, pseudo- 

 bulbosa. Folia coriacea. Racemus radicalis, densiflorus ; pedunculo 

 squamSto, bracteis glumaceis. Flores conspicui. 



The habit of this plant is thai of Odontoglossum ; the lip and column would refer 

 it 10 Epidendrum; ihe poilen-masses and caudicle are such as we find in no neigh- 

 bouring genus. The calli on the lip , placed just in front of the anther, are narrow, 

 raised , and fleshy, and each is furnished at ihe point with a bivalve gland which 

 epens vertically. The two narrow lateral sepals, standing apart from the others and 

 beneaih ihe lip, indicale an unmistakeable afflnity with Oncidium. 

 Cochlioda densiflora. 

 Wild in Peru— Matlhews. 



Pseudobulb oval, two-edged . someihing like ihat of Oncidium tenue, with one 

 narrow coriaceous spreading leaf at the point, and a pair of smaller and more chan- 

 neiled ones at the base. Peduncle aboul as ihick as a crowquill, flve inches long 

 before reaching the flowers, cloihed ihrough its enlire length with close-pressed glu- 

 maceous sheaihs. Raceme obiong, rather more than three inches long. Bracts giu- 

 raaceous, cucullate , spreading, about us long as the ovary. Back sepals and petals 

 r«undish, acute, of the "sanie size; laieral sepals spathulate-oblong, acute , nearly pa- 

 railel. Lip ihree-lobed; laieral lobes roundish, midiile one linear-oblong, dilaied and 

 two-Iobed at ihe point, In ibeir dried stale ihe flowers are about one inch and 

 a quarier across; iheir colour is unknown; it seems to have been yellowish, or 

 wbile, and unspotted. 



Huc porro; GOMEZA B. Br. Bot. Mag. 1748, 



88. ODONTOGLOSSUM RECURVUM. Huc: Gomeza recurva R. Br. Bot. Mag. 1748. Rodri- 

 guezia recurva Lindl. Hort. Trans. Vll. 67. L. 0. 195, 



89. ODONTOGLOSSUM PLANIFOLIUM. Huc: Gomeza pldnifolia Klotzsch Rchb. fll. in 

 v. Schl. und v. Mohl Bot. Ztg. 1852. 772. 



90. ODO.NTOGLUSSUM LAXIFLORUM. Huc: Gomeza laxiflora Klotzsch Rchb. fil. 1. c. 

 Rodriguezia laxiflora Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXV. 1837. Misc. 139. 



Pseudobulbis ancipilibus ovalibus, foliis lineari-lanceolalis acutissi- 

 mis, racemo^ laxo cernno, bracleis ovaria subaequantibus, labelli recurvi 

 otisolete bicristali appendice ungui aequali, sepalo antico angusto cuneato 

 bifido poslico petalisque planis. 



I received it 1834 from Mr. Bateman, who first distinguished it from R. planifolia 

 and recurva. Organ mountains of Brazil Gardner 654. Rocently in the coll. of Lod- 

 diges. Palegreen flowered. Much smalier ihan ihose jusi mcntioned, with a very iax 

 nodding .s|iike, on which the flowers are generally nrranged at considerable intervais, 

 t.oi always however, for 1 have spec. wiih the inflorescence as compact as that of 

 R. secunda. 



91. ODONTOGLO.SSUM CBISPATULUM. Huc: Gomeza mspa Kiotzsch Rchb. flL i. c. Huc: 

 Rodriguezia crispa Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXV. 1839. Misc. 139: 



Sepalis omnibus liberis petalisque undulato-crispis, labelli bicristati 

 appendice ungue mullo breviore. 



