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B. Epichilium ligulatum acutum planum porreclum. Tepala subbasilaria. 



6. GOiNGORA ARMENIACA. Acropera armeniaca Lindl. in Paxton Fiower Garden I. 

 p. 94. Kr. 140. Xyl. 66. Acropera cornuta Klolzscli! in Allgem. Garlenzlg. 1852. 186. 

 Lindl. in Paxton Flower Garden IIL 574. Prioribus subsimilis. Tepala arcuata ari- 

 stulata profunde inserta. nypochilii lobi Lumiliores apice et basi angulati (postice 

 acute) ; cristuia iransversa humillima inter utrumque ante unguem. Septum praece- 

 dentium, Epichilium continuum Ex America centrali misil vivam nob. de Warscewicz. 



Huc : Acropera armeniaca Lindl. 1. c. Cf, Walp. Ann. III. 550. 



Differs from A. Batemani in its petals being much shorter ihan ihe column and 

 perleclly distinct from it; and in the point of the lip being undivided , free , flat. 

 Large llowers, colour like ihe sunny side of a ripe apricot. 



Huc; Acropera cornuta Kl. 1. c. : 

 Pseudobulbis caespilosis ovatis, apice attenuatis bifoliatis, foliis ob- 

 longis, 3—5 costatis acuminatis, basi longe attenuatis, laete viridibus, 

 racemis basilaribus pendulis sesquipedalibus e \iridi purpureis 16 — 

 20floris; bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis , perigonii foliolis externis ob- 

 ovatis longius apiculatis fulvis, lateralibus tortis, supremo patentissimo 

 recto , interioribus semilunato lanceolatis brevibus, labello brevi ungui- 

 culato, serrato, apice longissime incurvo-cornuto; gynostemio albido, inlus 

 ad basin purpureopunctato, germinibus leviter striatis pedicellisque pur- 

 purascentibus. 



Farbe der A. Loddigesii, fahlgelb. 



C. Epiehilium anceps porrectum. Tepala mediana. 



I. Hypochilii cornua basilaria infima subnulla papulas parvulas saepe 

 evanidas referentia. 



7. GONGORA BUFONIA Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. Tab. 2: Gongoras irrorala De Hoff- 

 mannsegge Verzeichniss 1843. 53 ! Cum G. odoratissima Lem. maxima omnium. La- 

 bellum compressum. Ilypochilii lobi a basi angusta ascendenles verlice sinu exciso 

 angusto ab aristis anticis disjuncti , margine inferiori sub arislis bene angulati. Epi- 

 chilium compressum apice bene uncinatum, basi inferiori angulatum. — Pallide pur- 

 purea, punctis gultulisque obscuris aspersa. Patriam nescio. 



Huc : Lindl. 1. c. : 



Hypochilio convexo cornubus lateralibus obsoletis, arislis setaceis, 

 cpichilio acuminato paulobreviore, pedicellis columna triplolongioribus. 



Brazil. 



Uj)on comparing it with the olher species of the genus already in cultivation it is 

 found 10 differ not only in its singular colour, which is a dull purple , like wine- 

 lees, in the form of very irregular stains and spots, upon a dirly yellow ground, but 

 also in the minuter parts of its structure. It may be distinguished frora G. fulva, 

 maculaia, and atropurpurea in wanting the lateral horns, which project from the sides 

 of the lower part of the lip in lliese species. From G. nigrila , which equally wants 

 those horns it differs in having much longer bristles , and a lip altogether longer, 

 especially at the lower half. 



H. Hypochilii cornua basilaria minuta aristularum dimidio numquam 

 aequilonga. 



1. Cornua basilaria hypochilii deflexa retrorsa. 



8. GORGONA RETRORSA Rchb. fll. in Seemann Bonplandia IL 19. (1854); 



Racemus pendulus. Sepalum summum lanceolalum, sepala lateralia 

 oblonga obliqua acula, margine infeiiori obtusangula. Tepala linearia 

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