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an elevation of 5 —6,000 feet, growing on the mossy trunks of trees ; 

 in this locality it was discovered many years ago by Karsten, a 

 German traveller, and re-discovered some years afterwards by the 

 Belgian collector, Funck, through whom it was introduced into 

 European gardens by M. Linden, about the year 1850. 



R. pandurata. 



Stems 1 — 2 inches high, clothed with pale loosely imbricating mem- 

 braneous sheaths. Leaves ovate, acute, 2^ inches long, very stiff and 

 leathery, deep green above, dull purple beneath. Peduncles slender, 

 shorter than the leaves, several in succession produced from the base 

 of each leaf, pale green speckled with duU purple, one-flowered, the 

 ovary sheathed by an acute bract. Upper sepal narrowly lanceolate, 

 tapering into a short tail whitish with purple veins and tip ; lateral 

 sepals connate into an oblong, emarginate, concave blade, whitish densely 

 spotted with crimson-purple, the spots arranged in longitudinal lines ; 

 petals like the upper sepal, but much smaller, and with three purple 

 streaks on the dilated part ; lip coloured like the connate sepals, with 

 the spots more scattered, panduriform, emarginate, with a long bristle 

 on each of the basal lobes. Column elongated, clavate, arching, with 

 two orange spots at the base and a purple streak above them. 

 Eestrepia pandurata, Rchb. in lit. ad. F. W. Moore, Hort. bot. Glasnevin. 

 A very floriferous species that has been for some time in culti- 

 vation in the Royal Botanic Ciarden at Glasnevin, It has also been 

 imported by us from New Granada, which is thence known to be 

 its native country, but the locality in which it occurs has not been 

 communicated to us. The spots on the connate sepals and lip, when 

 viewed through a pocket lens, are of gem-like brilliancy, and form 

 one of the most attractive of floral objects. 



R. xanthophthalma. 



A dwarf tufted plant. Stems 1 — 2 inches high, clothed with imbri- 

 cating membraneous sheaths. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, as long as the 

 stems. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, pale yellow, spotted with 

 purple. Upper sepal subulate with a clubbed tip ; lower connate sepals 

 oblong, concave, bifid at the apex ; lip oblong, rounded at the apex, 

 about one-third as long as the connate lateral sepals. 



Restrepia xanthophthalma, Rchb. in Hamb. Gartenz. XXI. p. 300 (1865). R. 

 Lansbergii, Bot. Mvj. t. 5257. 



A native of Guatemala, from which country it was sent to the 



Royal Gardens at Kew by Salwyn, about the year 1860. Although 



one of the prettiest of the small-flowered Hestrepias, it is now rarely 



