108, Wahrea bidenta 
Orchid from New Grenada, 
pale cream-colour, with a 
before 1844, 
Li 
pur 
W, Lindeniana, Henf/ 
rrea tricolor. Flowers 
need bv Mr. Eucker 
A handsome terrestrial 
(Fig 47, the lip magnified.) 
This well-marked species was originally described in the Botanical Begwter for 
1844, at p. 76 of the miscellaneous matter. 
It has lately been reproduced in the 
of W. Lindeniana. 
Gardewr's Magazine of Botany, p. 177, under the new 
It is not a native of Peru, as is stated in that work, but was found by Mr. Linden 
« on the ground in the thick forests at the foot of the peak of Tolima, at the 
It is 
stated 
rZeru 
said to have some pink in its flowers when wild, but that colour has not been yet 
observed in cultivation. """ ' 
annexed cut 
The form of the lip, which is remarkable, is shown in the 
Warrea 
Lindley. A one-flowered Orchid, with littk beauty. Flower 
cream-coloured, with a violet lip. Native of Brazil. Introduced by 
Wailes 
(Fi 
A fresh flower of this pretty species has been sent me from George Wailes, Esq., 
of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who received it from the late Mr. Gardner, it having been 
found by that lamented botanist in an excursion to the river Parahyba in search of 
Huntkya Mekagris. It appears, like that plant, to have a one-flowered scape, and 
is not a species of much beauty. The flowers, which smell of sweet peas, are 
cream-coloured, and about as large as those of Warrea cyanea. The sepals are all 
somewhat reflexed, the lateral not being straighter than the rest ; the petals are 
also bent back, so that no arch can be formed over the column. The lip is tinted 
w«a delicate violet along the middle, is roundish, concave, wedge-shaped at the 
ase,not at all lobed, but so turned upwards at the edges as to look as if it was 
urmshed with basal auricles. Its appendage consists of Ave slender radiating 
Jiolet fingers, which are perfectly iree from the lip except at their origin ; at the sides the edge of the lip 
urmshed with a thin, linear, inflexed membrane. The column and pollen masses are those of W. discolor, 
tioH. Soc. 9 vol. iv. 
is also 
Joum. 
no. w 
j 
pale lem 
AEREA 
on- 
Lindlcy. A one-flowered Orchid from Costa Rica : sepals and petals 
olour, tinged with purple j lip dull purple. Introduced by Mr. \Yarcsiewitz. (Fig. 49, 
magnified.) 
very distinct species, apparently one-flowered, the leaves, &c. of which I have not seen. [Mr. Bassett, the 
garaener to Mr. Holford, states that the habit is that of Huntkya viohcea, the leaves, however, being only about 
colo A ^ and 1 lnCh wido,] The 8epa,s ' Mhich are ** inch long ' arC StraW " 
the ■' l0W6r 8trai g ht > concave and deflexed, the upper erect, rolled back at /^~X^C^~\ * 9 
A 
col v,uw w l »e petals, ana witn tnem tornnng an km »'« *» c 
mn and lip. The petals are straw-coloured at the base, dull purple at the 
part. The lip has a nearly circular outline, but is so concave as not to 
pesent that form until flattened ; it is slightly 3-lobed, of a deep, dull, velvety 
adh P 6 UI "' Witb ' at the ba8e > a rounaish oblong yellow appendage, which 
whiTT t0 - the Hp ' and is divided at the ed S e int0 stron g Merging ***» five of 
with nate so man y distinct ribs. The column is yellow, shaggy in front, 
four *? anther 8lopin S forw ard, and a subulate rostel. The pollen masses are 
on ^' ano " convex > in pairs at the end of a broad, flat, thin caudicle, furnished 
in iif. Side with a lateral tooth. (A singular monstrosity here occurred 
rJT ^ P ° 8terior P° ,len "— > -W«* h« d grown together into one by a narrow neck.) A remarkable 4"™*** 
S !° WePS ° f Which «*»»*» • Lvcaste, but their pollen-apparatus and lip-appendage are exactly those of W«m 
T thl8 P°'«t it may be useful to explain that in Lycaste the caudicle is subulate, and the hp-appendage a truncate 
£* ^ th * middle lobe of the lip, while in Warrea the caudicle is broad and flat, and the hp-appendage ribbed, 
lnD ged, and stationed at the ven - • • 
base 
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