210 WHITE LABELLED GONGORA. 
Traduction du texte frangais de M. Lemaire. 
WHITE LABELLED GONGORA. 
- GONGORA LEUCOCHITA， 
Erm. Ant. Caballero y Gongora, contemporary with and friend of Mutis. 
GENERIC CHARACTER ies ANGE 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
Often have we had to remark the delight which Providence mn to take in cs (as one 
may say) with the construction of certain animate or inanimate beings of the cre 
Should this remark be found to apply more particularly to e «geni of the موی‎ E Plants, 
it is still more particularly applicable to those of certain species, such as the Cirrhea, the Mor- 
modes , the nem (er E the Catasetum , the ee: ‚the Corythanthes باس مسجت‎ etc. 
and es ly to new species which we now offer 
It is a matter ^ pe to us wel the most Sa and grotesque imagination, even that of 
isc 
a Bot Callot, could succeed in inventing equally strange and curious floral forms — the 
sion of such a subject would however lead us too far astray, and 
His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; 
but the very nature of our work! We therefore strongly regret not to be enabled more frequently 
to mix in our descriptions touches of vegetable me that philosophy which 
Animo majora capac 
Concipit et que sit rerum natura bids Ov. (1). 
The plant in question strongly resembles the Gongora Bufonia Lui. (Bot. Reg. vol. 2. 1840) 
have we hesitated whether to consider it only as a simple variety. Its colouring is 
ren : 
eters which have induced us to consider it as new. — This remarkable plant is originally from 
Guatemala; from whence it has but very recently been introduced by the care of a Societ y lately for- 
med to explore Botanically the central States of America, and whose central Seat is ‘established at 
Ghent, at Mr. Van Houtte’s, who is one of the Directors. 
It was in full Bloom in one of the Orchideous hot-Houses of the Horticulturist just mentioned, 
where we availed ourself of the opportunity to view and to describe it. — It flowers abundantly, 
judging from the specimen which we inspected and which, formed of four or five pseudobulbs at 
a producing not less than four perfectly developped racems whose Bloom continued several 
gem ovate pseudobulbs, slightly attenuated at the apex, octangular, sulcate, subglaucous or light 
green; two ovate-lanceolated leaves, acuminated quinquenerved , canalic ulated, attenuate at the base 
d, very distan 
very dark reddish brown spotted with hardly perceptible little white points. — Bracteas fleshy and 
inflated at the base, gs appressed and of the same colour as the pedicels, No flowering part of 
the plant is يمه‎ > h green， he species co pared. 
Sepals lateral a e the base (2), turned back and erect, from the disposition of pedicels, 
(I) And not that scholastie philosophy, which 
t sensus cum re consiliumque fugit! Ov. 
deg a inferiorly is free, large and bent over the pedicel, then joins with it at the very point [where it becomes 
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