RESTREPIA. 559 



The plant figured under this name by Lindley in the 

 Botanical Register (1843, t. 41) is i?. micrantha; the flowers 

 are small, but more numerous and more densely set than in 

 R. matutina itself, and the colours are also brighter and more 

 effective. — Java. 



Fig. — Pescatorea, 1. 12 ; Blume, TabelL, xxiv ; Xcnia Orch., i. t. 35, fig. 1. 

 Syn. — Aerides matutina. 



R. Storiei, Rchb. f, — A handsome species, "just matching 

 the celebrated Pi. coccinea, or rather surpassing it," for the 

 parts of the flower, though one-sixth shorter than in that 

 species, are much broader, and the lip much larger. The stem 

 grows ten or twelve feet in height, and has distichous some- 

 what fleshy, dark green leaves eight to ten inches long, and 

 a branching inflorescence bearing fifty to sixty flowers, the 

 peduncles stronger than those of its ally, and very floriferous. 

 The dorsal sepal and petals are dark orange, the lower sepals 

 broad, and of a brilliant velvet crimson shaded with lighter 

 crimson, and the lip, which has the middle lobe ligulate and 

 the side lobes triangular, is small, deep crimson, with yellow 

 bars, and a white centre. There are a pair of quadrate 

 lamellae in front of the mouth of the conical spur. — Philippine 

 Islands. 



EesTEEPIA, Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth. 



{Tribe Epidendrese, stibtribe Pleurothallese.) 



A small genus of epiphytal Orchids, somewhat resembling 

 PleurothalUs, and consisting of small-growing plants with 

 slender tufted stems, each supporting a single leaf, and a 

 solitary small flower of very singular structure. There are 

 some twenty species described, all Tropical American, but 

 very few of them are worthy the attention of Orchid amateurs, 

 although, where the plants are grown for study or for 

 scientific purposes, the smaller flowers displaying microscopic 

 beauties are equally valuable with the larger flowers having 

 showy colours. 



Culture. — The Restrepias succeed best in the cool house 



