smaller, broad, with a twisted apex, and adnate to the sides of the 
column just below its centre. LaBELLUM continuous with the base of 
the column, the lower part or hypochilium somewhat spreading, with 
two erect appendages or horns on each side; those next the column 
linear and obtuse, the others terminated in a pointed apex; extremity 
of the labellum or epichilium folded, with the faces adnate so as to 
form a vertical triangular plate, sharp at its lower edge, furrowed on 
the upper edge, attached by one angle which is obtuse, the two other 
angles terminating in a fine point, CoxumN about an inch long, 
curved, somewhat club-shaped. ANTHERS terminal, yellow. 
Poputar anp Geocrapuicat Notice. A small but very singular 
South American genus, one species being found in Peru and the 
present one in Trinidad, where, like other epiphytes, they hang from 
the stems of trees. : G. B. 
. Intropuction; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE.. This species was 
transmitted to this country from the isle of Trinidad, by the late Baron 
de Schach, and first flowered in the Liverpool Botanic Garden, in the 
year 1825. It has since been much multiplied, and under the hands 
of such cultivators as the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose splendidly 
stocked Orchidaceous plant house our drawing was made, specimens 
may be seen with twenty or thirty magnificent spikes hanging from 
the same tuft, all round the pot in which it is grown. Dr. Lindley 
has observed in his Lady’s Botany, “It is in tropical countries, in 
damp woods, or on the sides of hills in a serene and equal climate, 
that these glorious flowers are seen in all their beauty. Seated on the 
branches of living trees, or resting among the decayed bark of fallen 
trunks, or running over mossy rocks, or hanging above the head of 
the admiring: traveller, suspended from the gigantic arm of some 
monarch of the forest, they develope flowers of the gayest colours, 
and the most varied forms, and they often fill the woods at night with 
their mild and delicate fragrance.” Notwithstanding the beauty which 
they display in their own tropical woods, it is questionable. whether 
native specimens were ever found equalling those to which we haye 
alluded. 
DERIVATION oF THE Names. 
Goncora, named by Ruiz and Pavon in honour of a Spani 
Atropurrvrga, dark purple. paniard of that name. 
Syn 
GoNGORA ATROPURPUREA. Hooker: 
ONYMEs. 
Exotic Flora, t, eas 
and Species, p. 159. 178, Lindley: Genera 
