CORYANTHES. 



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a hemispherical, greenish purple cup (hypochile), aird contracting at its 

 front edge extends forward into a kind of second stalk (niesochile) of 

 vivid hlood colour, the sides of which are thinner than the centre, 

 turned back and marked with four or five deep sharp-edged plaits ; 

 these plaited edges again expand and form a second cup (epichile) 



Coryanthes macrantha. 



thinning away very much at the edges, of a broadly conical figure ; 



this second cup is yellow streaked and spotted with light crimson, 



and seems intended to catch a watery secretion which drips into it 



from two succulent horns originating in the base of the column and 



hanging over the centre of the cup." — Lindley in Bot. Reg., sub. t. 1841, 



Coryanthes macrantha, Hook, in Bot. Mnrj. t. 3102 (1831). Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 

 Orch. p. 159. Id. Fol. Orch. Coryanthes, No. 3. M. Bot. lUg. t. 1841. Paxt, Mag. 

 Bot. V. p. 31. Linden's Fcsc. t. 30. Gongora macrantha, Hook. Bot. Misc. II. id. 

 151. t. 80. 



