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white suffused with pink, and produced into a large extin- 

 guisher-shaped spur behind. In the Bot. Mag. figure referred 

 here by Reichenbach, the flowers are yellow, with the front part 

 of the funnel-shaped lip for about one-third its length marked 

 by sanguineous lines. — Tropical America : New Grenada. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4701 (as Baueri).— f. Kchb. 



Gr. Harveyana, Rchb.f. — This is a pretty novelty, named in 

 honour of E. Harvey, Esq., of Riversdale Road, Aigburth, 

 Liverpool, a great enthusiast in Orchid culture. In its habit 

 of growth the plant resembles G. Devoniana. The flowers 

 grow in short racemes, and have cuneate-oblong sepals and 

 petals of a sepia-brown colour, and a light yellow lip, with a 

 tuft of hair on the anterior portion of the disk ; the lip is 

 dilated in front, and parted into three obtuse lobes, and at 

 the base is extended into a slightly curved spur. The column 

 is bordered on each side with mauve. — Trojjical America. 



G. nivalis, Hort. — This is a very rare and distinct epiphytal 

 species, and has been recently flowered by Sir Trevor Law- 

 rence, Bart., M.P. It has slender erect fusiform glaucous 

 stems, long narrow lanceolate grassy leaves, and drooping 

 racemes of rather pretty flowers, which are produced in March, 

 each about two inches in length, and having narrow reflexed 

 rich olive-coloured sepals and petals, and a white lip, funnel- 

 shaped at the base, the front lobe broad, flat, expanded and 

 emarginate, and marked with a large central violet-coloured 

 blotch. — Tropical America. 



Fig.— Gar d. Ckron., N.s., xvii. 537, fig. 85. 



GONGORA, Ruiz et Pavon. 



(Tribe Vandes, suhtribe Cyrtopodiese.) 



This genus is somewhat despised by Orchidists, yet it 

 contains some very interesting and free- flowering species, 

 which, as nearly all of them are fragrant, have a claim to our 

 attention. They are compact-growing evergreen pseudobulbous 

 epiphytes, each bulb having two broad plicate leaves contracted 

 into a stalk-like base, and they bear long drooping racemes of 



