136 MORMODES. 



cauline bracts short, triangular, appressed ; floral bracts lanceolate, 



shorter tlian the pedicels. Flowers among the largest in the genus, 



5 — 6 inches across the lateral sepals ; sepals and petals narrowly 



lanceolate, acuminate witli recurved margins, the basal half light rose with 



darker parallel nerves, tlie apical half bright yellow ; lip shortly clawed, 



ovate-cordate, acuminate, incurved, the margins revolute and almost 



meeting at the back, bright yellow Avith some red dots toAvards the 



base and tip." — Botanical Magazine. 



Mormodes Colossus, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 636. Id. in Walp. Ann. VI, 

 p. 581. Bot. Mag. t. 5840. 



Introduced by Warscewicz about the year 1850 from the mountains 

 of Central America at an elevation of 6,000 — 7,000 feet, and subse- 

 quently imported by ourselves from the same region. It has now 

 become very rare in the orchid collections of Europe, if it has not 

 entirely disappeared from them. 



M. Greenii. 



"Pseudo-bulbs 3 — 4 inches long. Leaves 12 — 18 inches long. 



Eacemes large, pendulous, many-flowered. Flowers 2| inches in diameter, 



whitish externally ; sepals and petals ovate, sub-acute, concave, light 



yellow entirely covered with oblong dark red spots ; lip curved upwards, 



gradually dilated from a linear fleshy base to a saccate, incurved, 



orbicular apex, irregularly toothed on the margin ; base of lip dark 



purple, inner surface yellow with red streaks, outer surface spotted like 



the sepals and petals except on the dilated apex which is dull lilac. 



Column short and curved, anther acuminate." — Botanical Magazine. 



Mormodes Greenii, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5802 (1869).* 



One of the finest species in the genus ; the flowers are not only 



large and handsomely coloured, but they also exhale a powerful 



aromatic odour. Its origin is not known with certainty, although 



probably Colombian. The first recorded instance of its flowering in 



this country was in the collection of the late Mr. Wilson Saunders at 



Hillfield, Reigate, in 1869, and after whose gardener, Charles Green, 



it is named. 



M. luxatum. 



Pseudo-bulbs 6 — 8 inches long. Leaves 15 — 20 inches long. Scapes 

 longer than the leaves, stoutish, glaucous, 9 — 12 or more flowered; 

 bracts short, broadly subulate. Flowers 3 — SJ inches in diameter, 



* In the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1869, p. 1205, the late Professor Eeichenbach reduced this 

 species to his Mormodes tnicia described in the same volume at p. 892, and which he states 

 is a Mexican species that had been introduced by ourselves, but of which we possess no 

 record. Eeichenbach 's short Latin diagnosis of M. uncia is so greatly at variance with 

 M. Greenii that we are unable to accept them as one and the same species. 



