344 OECHiD- grower's manual. 



tufted narrow ovoid furrowed pseudobulbs, from each of which 

 one elliptic-lanceolate plaited leaf with a long slender petiole 

 grows up. The erect robust scape is radical, and including 

 the raceme, from eighteen to twenty inches high, six to ten- 

 flowered, each flower being three and a half inches across ; 

 the sepals oblong bluntish, deep cinnamon, unspotted in the 

 upper half, and closely tessellated with yellow in the lower 

 half ; the petals are smaller and more narrowed towards the 

 base, but of a similar colour ; the lip has a subquadrate or 

 subtrapeziform hypochil with two long ascending spurs, 

 yellow spotted with crimson-purple, the epichil broadly has- 

 tate, with two short recurved horns, and the deeply channelled 

 apex recurved, pale yellow, marked closely with short trans- 

 verse red-purple bars. — New Grenada, elevation 4,000 to 

 6,000 feet. 



leiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6305. 



H. tigrina, Linden. — A showy and exceedingly pretty 

 species. The pseudobulbs are about two inches long, some- 

 what ovate, supporting long-stalked dark green erect plaited 

 leaves, which are blunt at the end. The scape is about as 

 thick as a swan's quill, greenish red, decurved, bearing hand- 

 some flowers, which are four inches in diameter, firm in 

 texture, with oblong concave straw-coloured sepals richly 

 mottled with deep rose, very acute three-lobed petals of a 

 brilliant yellow barred with crimson, and a lip which is 

 yellowish at the point, otherwise white speckled over with 

 crimson. — New Grenada. 



Syn. — Paphinia tigrina, 



Huntleya Meleagris. — See Batemannia Meleagris. 

 Huntleya marginata. — See Warscewiczella marginata. 

 Huntleya Tiolacea. — See Bollea violaoea. 



lONOPSIS, Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth. 

 {Tribe Yandese, subtribe Oncidiese.) 



A genus of limited extent, of epiphytical habit, the short 

 slender stems bearing thick narrow distichous sheathing leaves, 

 and long slender rigid peduncles which proceed from the top 

 or upper parts of the stem, and bear either simple racemes or 



