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ovate-lanceolated, prolonged, = sides rolled downwards, half white and dark lilac, starred on this 
last colour De LN pk of a stronger tint 
ag 
WEISSLIPPIGE GONGORE, 
the limb dc it is finally lo 
mediate Rib which extends even in a form h is only a p 
When the flower begins to fade these same sepals quit the perpendicular 
from lowering almost horizontally. 一 In this state you might easily suppose each flower to be a 
species of insect taking his spring to fly into mid air. — The e superior sepal is fixed dorsaly on its 
base to the gynostema, but ample, in form like the preceding, coloured and spotted like them; the. 
edges as rolled downwards; the two internal ones very distinct with a decurrent base and united 
with that of the d lightly surrounding the Gynostema up to the point of insertion of the 
superior s SCH e they branch off. suddendly, taking 
consistance of a pee blade, linear with a spiral, ten and very acuminated point. G 
literally continued with the e pedicel, DORE, inflate 
superior part coloured and spot the sepal w wanes passes it. The inferior part (in front) of a 
light greenish white, then of a pure white, like the base of the Labellum, which is is only a prolonga- 
tion of it. a firm fleshy consistance. It has four horns of which the 
two superior are short and flat; the weht very long an iform. 
The form of this Labellum is so complicated that its description, although as exact and clear as 
we could render it, wo be understood by the reader: the generic characters not being 
furnished with taire Mee explicit for the purpose. 一 The insufficiency of our pen and the 
— of authors on these characters will be amply age by the double figure adjoined to our 
— 
f, masses enum and sessile, fixed on a caudicule conform, thereto inserted at the 
of the stigma, not ideis m terminal and hidden e a cucullus caducous at 
the momen the impregnation. 
e Gongora leucochila flowers here in the middle or end of spring; the immense number, the 
elegant disposition of its flowers, their varied colour and its beautiful habitus, assure to it a i- 
guished place in every choice oct 
Ca. L. 
WEISSLIPPIGE GONGORE. 
GONGORA LEUCOCHILA. 
` Errmorosıe : Ant. Caballero y Gongora, Zeitgenosse und Freund des Mutis. 
Natürliche Ordnung der Orchidaceen, Abth. der Vandeen. 
GATTUNGS CHARACTER 
CTER . 
SPEC. CHARA = siehe oben. 
Wir haben zu verschiedenen Malen un- 
sere Bemerkung darüber gemacht, wie 
die Vorsehung in Erschaffung der sonder- 
barsten Thier- und Pflanzenformen sich 
zu gefallen geschienen hat. Obschon diese 
Bemerkungen den Pflanzen aus der Fami- 
(1) This form is such, that, if we might 
resemblance to k- mutilated body of a chicken just prepared 
plead our excus 
make use of so trivial a 
lie der Orchideen im allgemeinen gel- 
ten, so lassen sie sic ere mit 
nieh viel mehr Recht auf gewisse Gat- 
tungen anwenden, wie die Cirrhaen , 
Mormodeen, Cyenauken (Cycnoches), Cata- 
setien, Stanhopen, die Corytanthes (Coryan- 
comparison, we should say that the labellum is not without 
for the spit. Pardon us this expression whose justness must 
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