LEPTOTES. 



ORCHIDES. 455 



,,tenter ses gouts capricieux et Tart du glacier, de diminuer chez ses produiis cet 

 ..ennui, qui dit on. naquit de runiformit^". 



B. Mag. 40. 3734. - 

 Obs. Me judice huc pertinet: 



LEPTOTES SERRULATA LindL Sect. IL (1838). 

 Caule subdiphyllo , foliis glaucis, maculosis , labelli lobo medio ob- 

 longo lanceolalo acuminalo, lateralibus rotundatis serrulatis. 

 Epidendnim ficoide Desc. drawings, plate 28. p. 63. 

 Glaucous. Flowers3 — 4 times as large as of bicolor , labellum merely sireaked 

 with rays of purpie. 



Descourtilz : Lilac, sweet. Decb. on the trunks of Cedrela trees in tiie ancient 

 Rocas oll Brazil , where it survives the conflagrations', that destroy so many other 

 plants. I also found it in plenty in the district of Upper Macahe and in that of Ilha 

 Grande, where itis rare. Stems cylindrical, creeping, covered wJlh a dry, silvery. 

 smooth membrane. Leaves cylindrical, thick, succulent, fusiform, deeply chanelled on 

 the upper side, glaucous green or bluish, dotted with violet purple, especially under- 

 neath. There is a var. with the leaves twice as long and falcate. The scapes are 

 cylindrical , both terminal and axillary, bright purple, covered with acute, alternating 

 bracts. Ovary very long. united into a drooping raceme. The flowerbuds are of a 

 yellowish rose, protuberant at their base. Flowers very large, stellate. Sepals rib- 

 bonshaped, ralher broad , and white as the purest enemal; petals narrower and 

 thinner. The lip has at its base two short rounded auricles ; otherwise it is strap- 

 sliaped at the base wiih a white centre , whence ihere radiate numerous lines of the 

 most brillant lilac and is afterwards dilatated into an ovate pointed or lanceolate 

 limb of a beautiful white. 



1384. j§PATHOOEiOTTIS 



Bijdr. 400. 



1. SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA Blume Bijdr p, 401. t. 76. B. Reg. XXX. 1344. Misc. 58. 

 Mr. Loddiges received it from Penang. It has light purple flowers and has quite 

 ihe appearance of Paxtonia. 



2. SPATHOGLOTTIS LOBBII Rchb. fll. Mss. : 



Sepalis oblongis obluse aculis , tepalis latioribus obtuse acutis, la- 

 belli segmentis posticis semiovatis, ungue brevi apice in laminam ob- 

 cordatam expanso segmentis posticis prope aequilato, lamellis didymis 

 planis ovatis extus villosis, auriculis anteposilis triangulis villosis, co- 

 lumna partitionibus labelli posticis aequilonga. Ind. or. Lobb. (Klassiya?) 



3. SPATHOGLOTTIS TOMENTOSA Lindl. B. Reg. XXXI. 1845. sub 19.: 



Foliis binis latolanceolatis scapo tomentoso longioribus , racemo 

 tomentoso multifloro, bracteis obtusissimis concavis rigidis, velutinis pe- 

 dicellis multo brevioribus , sepalis petalisque obtusissimis liis latioribus, 

 labelli laciniis lateralibus erectis lineari-oblongis truncatis intermedia 

 apice renifonni ungue elongato lineari angustissimo basi hastalo, lamellis 

 ad basin lanceolatis semiconnatis erectis, columna angusta elongata. 



Mindanao in the province of Miscamis Manillae. 20 H. in llie raceme and Ihe siems 



and bracls coated with a close fur. , 



4. SPATIIOGLOTTIS AUREA Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. \. p. 16. : 



Fiowers yeliow. Raiher handsomc, wilh narrow lcaves like those of a Phajus and a 

 scape 2' liigii, benring at ihc very end about hnlf a dozen of large golden-yellow 

 llowers wilh a fcw ihill snnguine spots on the lip. Lobb found it on Moiint Ophir 

 near Nepenihes sanpuinea. According Mr. Griftith it inhabils rocks on M, Ophir 

 at places collod Goonory, Tooiidotk, I^aydnni,'. .1. H. S. V. |i. 34. 



