12 RESTREPIA. 



lip oblong, one-third as long as the lateral sepals, appressed to and 



coloured like them. Column with two narrow toothed wings. 



Restrepia antennifera, Humbt. et Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. I. p. 367, t. 94 (1815\ 

 Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 14 (1830). Id. Fol. Orch. Restr. No. 2. Ilhi^. hort. 

 1869, t. 601. Bot. Mag. t. 6288. R. maculata, Lindl. Orch. Lind. No. 19. R. 

 guttata, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Restr. No. 3. 



This is the largest flowered species of Kestrepin known, and the 



one most generally cultivated. It is that upon which the genus 



was founded by Humboldt and his collaborator Kunth, it having 



been discovered by the distinguished traveller himself at the 



beginning of the present century, growing on the trunks of trees 



at 9 — 10,000 feet elevation, near Pasto, in southern New Granada. 



It was subsequently detected by Linden (Merida, Bogota), Schlim 



(Ocafia), Wallis, and other collectors in different localities in New 



Granada, and even in Venezuela, at altitudes ranging from 7,000 to 



12,000 feet. It is thus spread over a large extent of territory, 



and is found to vary slightly in foliage, size and colour of flower, 



and in some minor particulars. The form known in gardens as 



Restrepia maculata, which was gathered by Linden at Salto de 



Teguendana, at 7,000 feet elevation, is a more robust plant than 



the common type, and has somewhat larger flowers, with the 



lower connate sepals of a deeper yellow. Another form, to which 



Lindley doubtfully gave specific rank under the name of R. guttata, 



is a very beautiful one, of which the sepals have purple-crimson 



spots on a white ground. 



R. elegans. 



A small tufted plant, smaller in all its parts than Restrepia .antenni- 

 fera. Stems 1^ — 3 inches high, clothed with stiffish scarious scales. 

 Leaves elliptic, sub-acute, 1| inches long. Peduncles usually in pairs, 

 slender, erect Upper sepal erect, lanceolate, prolonged into a straight 

 tail as long as itself, basal portion white, streaked with purple, tail 

 yellow; connate lateral sepals oblong, concave, yellow dotted with piu'ple; 

 petals similar to the upper sepal, but only half the size ; lip clawed, 

 oblong, emarginate, half as long as the connate lateral sepals, and 

 coloured like them. Column slender, bent, whitish. 



Restrepia elegans, Karst. Ausvv. neuer Gewaclise Ven. fide Bot. Mag. t. 5966 

 (1872). Van Houtte's Fl. cles Serves, VII. t. 743 (1851). Lindl. Fol. Orch. 

 Restr. No. 2. R. punctulata, Lindl. in lit. 1846. 



A pretty little orchid, much resembling Redrepia antennifera, of 



which it is the representative on the Venezuelian Cordillera, in the 



province of Caracas. It occurs in the neighbourhood of Tovar, at 



