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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



31. Restrepia VITTATA 



A native of Colombia, presented 

 to the Society by M, Linden. 



This curious 

 thing has the 

 habit of a Pleu- 

 rothallis, with 

 one long obtuse 

 leathery leaf, 

 which is rather 

 shorter than the 

 terete spotted 

 stem. Tlie 

 flowers grow 

 singly on a 

 slender erect 

 stalk, about 

 half the length 

 of the leaf 



The sepals are white, and the lower 

 somewhat boat-shaped ; the petals 

 are spotted with deep rose, ex- 

 tended into a long slender process 

 as long as the dorsal sepal, and 

 turned backwards. The lip is dull 

 yellow, striped with deep rose, 

 shorter than the double anterior 

 sepal, and blunt. 



It requires to be treated like the 

 genus Pleurothallis, and is one of 

 the handsomest of the race whicli 

 that genus represents. 



July 10, 1848. 



* U.vittata; petalis e latii basi ciliata 

 filiformibus recurvis, labelli ciliati con- 

 vex! laciniis lateralibus minimis obtusius- 

 culis. — J. L. 



