MORMODES. 



13? 



strongly fragrant; sepals and petals yellowish green sometimes spotted 

 with purple ; the sepals ovate, suh-acuminate ; the petals much broader, 

 oval-oblong, acute, concave ; lip shortly clawed, and twisted in the 

 same manner as the column, obscurely three-lobed, sub-orbicular, concave, 

 almost hemispheric, with an apiculus on the anterior edge ; deeper in 

 colour than the sepals and petals, and with a brown-purple streak on 

 the inner side. Column triquetral with the characteristic twist of the 

 genus. 



Mormodes hixatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. No. 66 ; and 1843, t. 33. 



Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 577. Id. in Gard. Chron. X. (1878), p. 396. Rev. 



hort. 1889, p. 132, with plate. Rolfe in Gard. Chron. VI. s. 3 (1889), p. 186. 



Catasetuni luxatum, Benth. in Gen. Plant. III. p. 552. 



SUb-var. — ebumeum (Gard. Chron. XVIII. (1882), p. 144, with fig.), flowers 

 ivory-white with a brown-purple stripe on the lip. 



The original Mormodes luxatum is more acceptable for the delightful 

 fragrance than for the colour of its flowers which is dull lemon-yellow; 

 in the sub-variety the colour is much purer, rendering the flowers 

 quite handsome. The typical form was discovered by Ross in 1839 

 near Yalladolid, in Mexico, while collecting orchids for M.r. George 

 Barker, of Birmingham, in whose collection at Springfield it flowered 

 in 1842. The sub-variety seems to have first appeared in the 

 collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., who mentions it in the 

 Gardeners' Ghronide of 1878 as " Sb stately plant, delicate in the pure 

 ivory tint and scent of its flowers, and quaint in its twisted shell- 

 shaped lip."* 



M. OcannsB. 



"Pseudo-bulbs 3 — 4 inches long. Leaves about a foot long. Scapes 

 robust, about as long as the leaves, 6 — 10 flowered ; bracts oblong, 

 obtuse, boat-shaped, ^ inch long. Flowers about 3 inches in diameter 

 when spread out, uniformly of a dark orange-yellow closely speckled 

 with red-broAvn spots ; sepals and petals similar, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 concave ; lip with a long claw, the blade three-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 short, oblong, rounded at the tip ; the mid-lobe sub-quadrate, abruptly 

 beaked, all the lobes with incurved margins." — Botanical Magazine. 



Mormodes Oeannre, Lindl. et Rchb. MSS. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 581 (1863). 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XII. (1879), pp. 582 and 816, with figs. Bot. Mag. t. 6496. 



Originally discovered by Schlim on the eastern Cordillera of 

 Colombia, near Ocaha, at 4,000 — 5,000 feet elevation, from whose 

 dried specimen it was described by Reichenbach in Walper's Annates 

 Botanices. It was re-discovered by Kalbreyer while collecting orchids 

 for us in that region, and who sent us the first living plants received 



* Vol. X. p. 396. 



