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Subgenus Koezlia. 



16. F. Bedtnghausii K. Kocli, Woclien. 18G3, 233 ; Belg. Hort. 

 1803, 327, with fig. Yncra Paniieiitk'rl Roezl. lloezUa bitlbifera, 

 11. rct/ltt, Viiccd ((n/i/rophi/IIa, and Y. Tonellana Hort. F. lioezlii 

 Andre in Rev. Hort.' 1887, 353, fig. 71.— Trunk 5-G ft. long below 

 the rosette of leaves, 6-9 in. diam. Leaves 50 or more in a dense 

 rosette, ensiform, 3-4 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed gradually to the point and to an inch above the base, 

 permanently glaucous on both sides, smooth on the face, very 

 scabrous on the back, the margin minutely denticulate, as in 

 JJeschomeria. Inflorescence reaching a height of 15-20 ft. ; 

 peduncle much shorter than the pyramidal panicle, the branches 

 of which are long and drooping ; lower flowers 2-3-nate ; pedicels 

 :^-|- in., articulated at the tip. Ovary pubescent, an inch long ; 

 perianth-segments oblong, an inch long, tinged green outside. 



Hab. Mexico. Introduced by Roezl about 18G0. (For a full account of its 

 discovery see Belg. Hort. 1888, 133.) First flowered by M. Bedinghaus, of 

 Mons, after whom it was named by Karl Koch in 1863, and lately (1875 and 

 1881) by Mr. Dorien Smith, in Scilly ; by Mr. J. Spull, in 1887 ; and at the 

 Jardin d'Acclimatation, Hyeres, in 1887. 



17. F. LONG.EVA Karw. et Zucc. in Nova Acta, xvi. 2, 606, t. 

 48 ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5519. — Trunk reaching a length of 

 40-50 ft., 1-li ft. diam. Leaves 100 or more in a dense rosette, 

 ensiform, 4-5 ft. long, 4-5 in. broad, narrowed gradually to the 

 point and to 2 in. above the base, opac^ue green, not glaucous, 

 nearly all recurving, the face flat in the centre, the back with only 

 a scabrous keel, the edge minutely denticulate. Peduncle with 

 panicle reaching a length of 40 ft. ; branches spreading or drooping, 

 copiously compound, reaching a length of 12-15 ft. ; lower flowers 

 2-3-nate. Ovary very pubescent. Perianth- segments oblong, an 

 inch long, ^ in. broad. 



Hab. Mexico. Discovered by Karwinski about 1829, in the province of 

 Oaxaca, alt. 10,000, and found also by Skinner in Gruatemala. (See Bateman's 

 Monograph of Odontoglossum, sub t. 17.) Was flowered at the Regent's Park 

 Botanic Garden in 1864, and at the Wellington Botanic Garden, in New 

 Zealand, in 1885. There is a very fine specimen planted out in the Temperate 

 House at Kew. 



