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sides the upper sepal aud the two petals ; the pedicels are 

 purple . — Trinidad. 

 ¥lG.—Bof. Mag., t. 3220; HooJc. Exot. Fl., t, 178; Maund, Bot., iii. t. 



GONGORA ATROPURPURBA. 



G. Mfonia, Lindley. — An interesting species resembling 

 G. maculata in its mode of growth, having both the pseudo- 

 bulbs and leaves of a pale whitish green. The flowers in this 

 species are of a dull pale wine-purple, very irregularly stained 

 and spotted on an obscure yellowish white ground, and bear a 

 pair of long setaceous bristles on the hypochil ; the pedicels 

 are purple. The variety major has larger flowers than those 

 of the type. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Eeg., 1841, t. 2. 



G-. maculata, Lindley. — This rather handsome plant grows 

 about eighteen inches high, and has ovate-obloug strongly- 

 ribbed pseudobulbs, dark green five-nerved broadly lanceolate 

 leaves, and long drooping racemes upwards of a foot in length, 

 and produced from the base of the bulbs, of elegant flowers, 

 which are of a clear yellow with bright reddish brown bars 



