124 SOULLETIA. 



epicliile liastate, iDroduced at the lateral angles into two sliort horns. ■. 



Coliunn triquetral, bent, slender at the base, dilated upwards. 



HouUetia odoratissima, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. III. p. 172 (1853). Linden's 

 Pesc. t. 3. Rchb. in AYalp. Ann. VI. p. 616. Gard. Chron. XXIf. (1884), p. 38 

 (xanthina); and XXIV. (1885), p. 777. icon. xyl. Godefrov's Orchidophile, 1887, 

 p. 273. Lindcnia, VII. t. 324. 



var. — antioquiensis. 



Scapes longer and more robust. Flowers larger with broader 

 segments ; sepals and petals rich chocolate-brown shaded with maroon 

 towards the base ; epichile of lip and apex of column light yellow. 



H. odoratissima antioquiensis, Andre in Illus. hort. XVII. p. 59. t. 12 (1870). ' 



Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 316. Rev. dc VHort. Bdgc, 1890, p. 121. 



Originally discovered by Sclilim iu 184.9, in the province of Soto, 

 on the east side of the river Magdalena, on the banks of streams 

 where its powerful odour betrayed its presence, and two years later 

 it was collected by him in the Weiamannia forests near Ocaiia, and ' 

 introduced to M, Linden's horticultural establisliment at Brussels. 

 It flowered for the first time in Europe in M. Pescatore's collection i 

 at St. Cloud, near Paris, in 1852. ! 



The variety, a very distinct one, is a geographical form from the 

 opposite or western side of the Magdalena; it was discovered by 

 Gustav Wallis in 1868, in the province of Antioquia, and intro- 

 duced by him to M. Linden's establishment, 



H. picta.* 



Pseudo-bulbs, leaves and inflorescence as in the type species, | 

 "Flowers 3| inches in diameter; perianth spreading, the basal half I 

 tessellated with yellow and cinnamon-broAvn, the apical half wholly j 

 cinnamon-brown ; sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse ; petals rather smaller, 

 narrowed towards the base ; hypochile of lip somewhat trapeziform, i 

 the sides produced backwards into long ascending spines, the disk yellow 

 blotched with red-purple ; epichile broadly hastate, the posterior angles 

 l^roduced into short recurved horns, reflexed and deeply channelled at 

 the apex, light yellow with some short transverse red bars. Column 

 yellow blotched with brown on the back." — Botanical Magazine. \ 



HouUetia picta, Rchb. in Regel'a Gartenfl. 1855, p. 2. Id. in Walp. Ann. VI. | 



p. 616, Bot. Mag. t. 6305. 



" Discovered by Schlim in New Granada, along with other very 

 similar species of the genus, collected up to an elevation of 4,000 

 — 6,000 feet. It first flowered in the celebrated orchid garden of j 

 Consul Schiller at Hamburgh, and later at Farnham Castle, from 

 whence the specimen figured in the Botanical Magazine was obtained. 

 It difiers very slightly from the type species,"t 



* Not seen by us. t Bot. Mag, sub. t. 6305. ' 



