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characteristic, grows about a foot high. The large grotesque 

 flowers are pale yellow, the cup satiny orange, and the pouch 

 reddish or tawny yellow ; they are produced in April or May, 

 and last three or four days in bloom. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 2755 ; Annales de Gand, 1846, t. 51 (var. vitellinn) 

 Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 36. 

 Syn. — Gongora speciosa. 



CORTANTHES MACTTLATA PUNCTATA. 



CyCNOCHES, Lindley, 



{Tribe Vandeas, subtribe Stanhopiese.) 



A very singular genus of plants, whose flowers are of a most 

 peculiar form, usually bearing more or less resemblance to a 

 swan. They are not thought much of by many cultivators of 

 Orchids, but some are well worth growing, as they are of easy 

 culture, and produce their flowers freely. The stems, which 

 are thick and fleshy, are from six to ten inches high, and have 



