ANGULOA 101 



The original form was introduced about the same time as Anguloa 

 Cloivesii, and through the same agency; it flowered for the first 

 time in the collection of Mr. Rucker^ at West Hill^ Wandsworth, 

 in the summer of 1846. It continued to be the rarest of the 

 Anguloas in British gardens till the actual habitat of the species was 

 discovered by Blunt while collecting orchids for Messrs. Low and Co. 

 about the year 1870, who found it on the slopes of the eastern 

 Cordillera between Pamplona and Bucaramanga ; as it occurs nowhere 

 else so far as at present known, its range is thence the most restricted 

 of all the Anguloas. The sub-variety albijiora recently appeared 

 in the collection of Mr. Charles Dorman, at Laurie Park, Sydenham ; 

 sanguinea was imported many years ago by Messrs. Rollisson, of 

 Tooting. 



As distinguished from Anguloa Clmuosii, A. Ruclceri has smaller 

 pseudo-bulbs and leaves; the scapes are a little shorter and the 

 flowers differently coloured; the lip is shorter, the side lobes of 

 which are rounded and not acute ; the column is shorter and more 

 deeply grooved, below the stigma. 



A. uniflora. 



Pse\ido-bulbs ovoid-oblong, angulate, 4 — 6 inches long. Leaves broadly 

 lanceolate, acute, 18 — 24 inches long. Scapes 6 — 8 inches long. 

 Flowers more open than in Angidoa Glowesii and A. RucJceri, cream- 

 white sometimes tinted and spotted with rose-pink on the inside ; 

 sepals ovate, acute, concave ; petals smaller, elliptic-oblong, acute ; lip 

 three-lobed, the lateral lobes sub-rotund, rolled inwards into a tube ; the 

 terminal lobe very small, linear, reflexed, having at its base a bipartite 

 thickened plate. Column clavate with two narrowly oblong auricles 

 at the apex. 



Anguloa uniflora, Ruiz et Fav. Fl. I'eruv. Syst. p. 228. Id. Prod. Fl. Peruv. 



p. 118. t. 26 (1794). Lindl. Gen. et Sf). Orch. p. 160. Id. BoL Reg. 1844. 



t. 60. Bot. Mag. t. 4807. Kegel's Gartoiji. 1883, t. 1137. Lindenia, VII. t. 310 



(Preyerani). 



This is the type species of Ruiz and Pavon, who discovered it at Muna 

 (about lat. 10° S.) during their mission to Peru, 1777 — 88, and 

 where some years ago it was found by our collector, Walter Davis, 

 associated with Cyprijjedium caudatum, growing among the scrub 

 and low bushes, generally in partial shade. It first became known 

 to horticulture in 1844, when a plant which had been collected by 

 Linden in New Granada two years previously flowered in Mr. Barker's 

 collection at Springfield, Birmingham. Ten years later it was 



