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base of the two dolabriform laminfe which fold up to form a 

 hollow, with a straight linear horn at the summit. The 

 flowers have the parts more or less dotted with minute 

 purplish or dull red spots ; the pedicels are greenish straw- 

 colour. — Xeiv Grenada. 

 FiQ.—Ilhist. Ilori , 3 ser. t. 61. 



G. tricolor, Pichh. f. — One of the handsomest of the Gongoras, 

 having oblong-ovate thickly ribbed pseudobulbs, bold plicate 

 leaves, and fine stout drooping racemes of bright-coloured 

 flowers of comparatively large size. The dorsal sepal, affixed 

 half-way up the back of the column, is lanceolate, and as well 

 as the lateral ones, which are obliquely triangular, broad at 

 the base, narrowing upwards, deep bright yellow heavily spotted 

 and blotched with rich sienna brown ; the petals are small, 

 narrow, pale yellow, lightly spotted ; the lip is prettily 

 marked, the hypochil being white, oblong, convex, and two- 

 horned at the base, the front truncate, with acute angles ex- 

 tended into two long awns, white with one or two dark brown 

 spots, and the epichil acuminate, stained on the sides with 

 cinnamon (bright rose in the figure) ; the pedicels are purple. 

 - — Panama or Peru. 



'ElG.—Bot. Reg.. 1847, t. 69. 

 Syn. — G. maculata tricolor. 



G. truiLCata, Lindley. — A fine and very distinct species, 

 with light-coloured flowers of full average size. The habit of 

 the plant as regards the pseudobulbs, foHage, and inflo- 

 rescence resembles that of the other species. The chief 

 peculiarity is in the flowers, which are whitish or straw- 

 coloured, marked by a few brownish purple transverse 

 freckles, the lip being a clear varnished yellow. The dorsal 

 sepal is obovate carinate, the lateral ones roundish oblong and 

 so blunt-ended that the buds before expansion resemble a 

 bean in form ; the petals are small and the lip is curved, the 

 hypochil compressed in the middle and bearing a pair of awns 

 in front, while the epichil, or anterior portion, is ovate and 

 channelled, and when turned up is suggestive of the form of 

 the front part of a gondola ; the pedicels are mottled purple. — 

 Mexico. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 56 ; Ann. de Gand, 1848, t. 205. 



