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narrower than in the cultivated. 
be afforded. 
1, A u . '° "'''""""■' '' " ""' °' ""= """"' ^"^OO" of Ulc coiisorvatory wl.oro room am 
fln^ I'n +1.0 fl^of *i r .1 . *^ 6'«"^'^"='> u.uiu^t uiue, leaves,— uiemselvee handsome < 
and m he first months of the year, it pours forth in profusion its long spikes of deep yellow round flower-heads 
of the leaves are above a foot long. The pods are 
said to be very narrow, from three to five inches 
long, and contracted between the seeds ; we have 
not seen tliem. 
Some 
320, MOHMODES BARBATUM. 
Mormodes 
purpurea Ilooher) 
( alias 
An 
Orchidaceous epiphyte, from Central America, 
riowers dark purple. Intro- 
Wj 
Bios- 
Llewelyn 
This plant, published lately in 
the Botanical Magazine, t. 4577, 
under the name of Mormodes atro- 
purpurea, is quite different from 
the plant so called in ike Botanical 
Regi^er, t. 1861. It differs not 
only in the longer and looser 
spike, but in the form of the lip, 
which is not at all 3-lobed, or 
rather 5-lobed, but quite entire, 
and moreover covered with \ouz 
hairs instead of being smooth. Sir 
Wm. Hooker gives tlie following 
definition and account of it : 
M. pseudo-bulbia oblongis 
squamis araphs imbricatis pallidis 
fusco-marginatis vaginatis, foliis 
. . . , floribus pendulis unicolori- 
bus, sepalis petalisque arete re- 
flexis ovato-lanceolatis marginibus 
velutini 
nma 
Oblique torta breviter acuminata. « The blossoms of the present species 
axe ui u uniform dark purple or blood colour, the sepals and petals wider (than in 
M. lentiginosa), the lip much broader and velvety, with short hairs. It was com- 
municated in January, 1851, by our friend J. DiUwyn Llewelyn, Esq., from his 
collection at Penllergare, having been purchased hy that gentleman at one of the 
Panama 
Striated, the old ones entirely sheathed by large, membranaceous, pointed scales, of a 
pale straw-colour, edged with dark brown. The leaves we have not seen. Scape a 
foot high, rounded, articulated. Flowers rather distant, pendulous, of a nearly uniform 
dark purple-brown, or between chocolate and blood-colour. Sepals and petals nearly 
uniform, ovato-lanceolate, their sides reflexed. The lip porrected, velvety with short 
hairs, broadly obcordate, tapering below into a stipes, the sides singularly revolute. 
Column pale, purplish-brown, not half the length of the lip, with which it is nearly 
parallel, but it has an oblique twist ; the apex short, acute." 
curious genus Mormodes 
on 
with 
MOEMODES 
racemo oblongo denso, sepalis lineari-oblongis sequalibus reflexis basibus 
lateralium paulo obliquis, petalis ovatis erectis supra columnam conn: 
clustered 
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