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flowered in April, 1840. The warted labellum well distinguishes 

 this species from all the cultivated Brassias except B. brachial a, but 

 this has flowers as large again as those of B. verrucosa. 



GOMEZA. 



R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 1748 (1815). Beuth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 565. 



A small genus including five or six species, natives of southern 

 Brazil, having the liabit of the smaller Odontoglots, and producing 

 in winter and early spring drooping racemes of pale yellow or 

 greenish flowers that are appreciated for their delightful fragrance. 

 The genus was founded by Dr. Robert Brown on Gomeza recurva, 

 a species that was cultivated in the old Apothecaries' Garden at 

 Chelsea in the early part of the present century. It commemorates 

 the name of Bernardino Gomez, a Portuguese physician and botanist. 

 The generic characters will be recognised from the descriptions of 

 the species given below which are well known and frequently met 

 with in orchid collections where they are cultivated on account of 

 their pleasant fragrance and where they are better known as 

 Eodriguezias, Dr. Lindley having unaccountably confounded them 

 with that genus.* 



Cultural Note. — Coming fruiu tlio same region and gruwing, so far as 

 at present kjiown, under similar conditions as the smaller Brazilian 

 Miltonias, Miltonia spedabilis, M. flavescens, &c., the cultural treatment 

 of those species is also that which has been found to be naost suitable 

 for the Gomezas, and need not therefore be here repeated. 



Gomeza Barkeri. 



P.seudo-ltulbs narroAvly (jl:)long, 3 — 4 inches long, dii)hyllous. Leaves 



linear-lanceolate, acute, 5 — 7 inches long. Scapes longer than the leaves, 



.loosely racemose, many flowered. Flowers light yellow-green with some 



red spots on the lip and an orange line round the stigma ; sepals and 



petals linear-oblong, undulate, the lateral sepals comiate to the middle ; 



lip ovate-oblong, acute, reflexed ; crest two small plates i)roduced in 



front into two short raised lines. Column with a small auricle on 



each side below the anth(M". 



Gomeza Barkeri, Beuth. Gen. Plant. III. p. 566 (1883). Kodriguezia Barkeri 

 Hook, in Bot. Maq. t. 3497 (1836). Odontoglo.ssura Barkeri, Kdib. iu W-ili.' 

 Ann. VI. p. 854 (1864). ' " 



* Quite as inexplicable is the placing of them under Odontoglossum by Keichenbach in 

 Walp. Ann. VI, p. 853. 



