98 THE FIERY-RED MORMODES. 
lines of dots; and C had dark lake flowers, speckled irregularly with red, but not dotted ; their lips 
were thinner, smaller, and had a decidedly angular outline. 
The two other kinds, not now figured, were the same in habit; but neither had any dots; one | 
had faint stripes along the sepals and petals, which were dirty pink, and the lip was a dull green ; 
the other had a much yellower flower; in both the sepals and petals were as in B and C, but the 
lip was much larger, thinner, and still more decidedly angular. 
Are these forms to be regarded as distinct species? and are they new, or are they varieties of 
some species already known? There grows in the temperate parts of the snow-capped mountain 
ridge of Santa Martha, especially on the branches of an Erythrina, a Mormodes of which travellers 
speak as being most remarkable for the infinite variety of its colours. A striped state of it having 
flowered at Syon, some years since, Sir William Hooker published it in the Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4214, and called it Cartoni, under which name it is current in gardens. Of that plant we 
entertain no doubt that our figures B and C are mere varieties. The main figure, so resplendent in 
colour and striking in dimensions, seems to differ in its broader and more fleshy sepals and petals, 
and in its thicker more leathery lip, which has little of the angularity which belongs to M. Cartoni ; 
we therefore distinguish it under the name of M. igneum. As for the other varieties above alluded 
to, and not figured, they probably belong to the M. flavidum of Klotzsch. 
It is not improbable, however, that all these things are one and the same species ; and if so the 
M. lentiginosum of the Botanical Magazine, t. 4455, will have to be added; for beyond colour the 
plant seems to have nothing to distinguish it except the total absence of all angularity in the lip. 
The same principles which justify the separation of that plant equally authorize the distinction of 
Cartoni, igneum, and flavidum; and also the separation of a small species with rather more mem- 
branous pallid flowers, also from Santa Martha, and now in our gardens, the lip of which is rolled up 
into a slender pipe, but which when flattened has much the form of a sharp trowel. We received it 
last March from an anonymous correspondent at Buckland in Berkshire, and propose to distinguish it 
with the following name and character. 
M. convolutum ; sepalis petalisque linearibus reflexis, labello tereti convoluto unguiculato 
apiculato incurvo levi ambitu hastato angulis abbreviatis et igitur trulleeformi—Santa Martha.— 
Flowers the smallest yet known in the genus, dull yellow, spotless. 
A much more striking species than any yet recorded was sold at the same sale of Mr. Warcze- 
wicz’s as the others. It formed Lots 39 the first day and 34 the second day. According 
to a drawing now before us, for which we are indebted to Mr. Skinner, the flower-buds 
are three inches long, and consequently each flower, when expanded, is eighteen inches in circum- 
ference. They are represented as of a deep chocolate-brown, and are especially remarkable for the 
lip being ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, and perfectly flat. Tt may be distinguished thus :— 
M. macranthum; racemo laxo multifloro, sepalis petalisque angusté lanceolatis acuminatis 
patentibus, labello unguiculato ovato-lanceolato acuminato plano.— Central America, 1000 feet above 
the level of the sea. 
