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and erect flower-scapes from ft. to r4ft. high. There 
are about six flowers on each scape, and each flower is 
gin. across; sepals and petals oblong, pale purplish red, 
with lines of a deeper colour; column and lip white, with 
a pair of reddish horns at the base; odour powerful and 
violet-like. Introduced from Colombia in 1851. 
Var. antioguensis has broader sepals and petals, and 
coloured a rich reddish crimson, the outside being brown. 
It is an improvement on the type. 
Var. xanthina has sepals and petals orange-yellow, and 
a white lip tipped with yellow. 
H. picta.—This very handsome Orchid, has furrowed 
pseudo-bulbs gin. high by tin. broad at the base, tapering 
towards the top, and bearing a broadly lance-shaped leaf, 
which measures 13ft. in length, and narrows at the base 
into a distinct stalk 2in. to 3in. long. The flowers are 
34in. in diameter, and are produced on a stem which 
springs from the base of the pseudo-bulb and attains a 
height of 1$ft.; vigorous plants will develop nine or ten 
flowers on a spike. The sepals are narrowly oblong, with 
rounded tips, and, together with the petals (which are 
much narrowed at the lower half), are cinnamon-coloured, 
the basal portion of each being tessellated with yellow. 
The terminal division of the lip is yellow, marked with 
transverse bars of reddish purple, spear-shaped, with a 
recurving, channelled apex; the inner lobe is yellow, 
spotted with crimson-purple, smaller and somewhat trapezi- 
form, and is furnished at the sides with two ascending 
spurs. The length of the whole lip is rhin. A native of 
New Grenada. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 6305. 
