580 ORCHIDES. 



MORMODES. 



From Warsce^^-icz's sales. 



A stiff sialk. about a foot'high bore a dozen large neshy flowers, of which the sepals 

 ancl petals v,ere alike chocoiate — coloured, the lip a rich flery orange brown. There 

 was no streaking' or spotting in any part of ihe surface. The sepals were flat, li- 

 nearlanceolaie, very sharp, aiid spread llat out , even turning backward after a time ; 

 the petals, on ihe contrary, were erect, soinewhai broader. The lip. a tough, fleshy 

 body, when sprcad out had an elliptical outline with the major axis transverse, and 

 the edge extended into a iriangular point on one side; in its natural condition it 

 was roUed back , and folded so as to look as if angular, though nol really so. 



B. and C. accompanied it. B. had dingy red flowers, marked wilh lines of dots ; and 

 C. had dark lake flowers , speckled iiTCgularly with rcd., but not dotted; their lips 

 •were thinner, smaller and had a decidediy angular oulline. The two others kinds, not now 

 flgured. were tlie same in habit, but neither had any dots; one had faint stripes aiong 

 the sepals and peigls , which were dirty pink, and the lip was a duli green, the other 

 had a much yeilower Uower ; in both sepals and petals were as in B. and C. but the 

 lip was much larger , ihinner, still more anglar, Distinct species? new ? varieties of 

 some species already known ? Tliere grows in the temperated parts of the snow- 

 capped mounlain ridge of Santa Martha, especially on the branches of an Erythrina 

 a .AJorraodes of which travellers speak as being most remarkable lor the infinite var. 

 of its colours. A striped state of it having flowered at Syon, Sir W. Hooker pub- 

 lished it as M. Cartoni. Of ihat plant"we entertain no doubt B— C are varieties. The 

 main fig., so resplendent in colour and slriking in dimensions, seems to differ in its 

 Lroader and more fleshy sepals and petals and in its thickcr more leathery iip, which 

 has little of ihe angularity', which belongs to M. Cartoni ; we therefore distinguish 

 it under the name of M. igneum, as for the other var. above alluded to, and not flgured, 

 Ihey probably belong to M. flavidum of Klotzsch. It is not improbable , that all these 

 things are ene and the same species and, if so , the M. lentiginosum of B. M. 4455 

 will have to be added ; for beyond colour the plant seems to have nothing to dis- 

 tinguish it excei)t the tolal absence of all angulai^ty in the lip. The same principles, 

 •which justify the separaiion of ihat plant equally authorize ihe distinction of Cartoni, 

 igneum . flavidum , and also the separation of a small species wiih rather more 

 membranous pollid flowers etc. Cf. M. convolutum. 



Lem. Jardl. Fl. IV. 330. („an potius M. Hookcri Ch. Lera. var. mera?''), 



5. WORMODES SPECIOSUM Linden Paxt. FI. G. III. 174. Nr. 655: 



Sepalis pelalisque lanceolatis, labelli tripartiti glabri laciniis lalerali- 

 qiis ovalis obtusis, inlermedia acuminata mullo brevioribus. 



N. Granada. Ocanna. 4800'. Aug. 52. Schlim. 



Flowers 3'" diam., detp golden yellow. speckled all ovcr even to the lip wilh rich 

 cirmamon red. Points of Iip are deep purple. 



b. MORMODES CARTONI Hook. B. M. 4-^14. Cf. Walp. Ann. IIL 7S3. — Lindl. Orch. 

 Lind, pag. 23; 



,,FIowers extremely variable. Found on Erythrinas. in the temperate regions of 

 Sierra Nevada, of St. Martha. Sepals are flcsh coloured ; lip fleshy rose." The sarae 

 plant was found by Mr. Funck al Minca near St. Martha in the prov. of Rio Ilacha 

 at ihe height of 4000'. (N. —J. 



7. MORMODES HOOKERIICh. Lom. Jard. Fl. Misc. L 116. 15. Maj. il851.) ,Huc: Mor- 

 modcs atropurjmrea Hook. B. M. 4577 : 



Pseudobulbis oblongis squamis amplis imbricatis pallidis fuscomargi- 



natis vaginatis, fobis , floribus pendulis unicoloribus, sepalis peta- 



lisque arcte rcflexis ovatolanceolatis raarginibus revolutis, labelli late 

 obcordati vclntini in stipitem basi allenuati lateribus revolutis, columna 

 oblique torta breviter acuminata. 



