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MORMODES. 



in Europe, one of which flowered magnificently in our houses in 

 October, 1879, and was figured in the Botanical Magazine and 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Monnodes Ocannfe. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



M. pardinum. 



Pseudo-bulbs 5 — 6 inches long. Leaves 12 — 15 or more inches 

 long. Scapes as long as the leaves, arching, the raceme dense and 

 many-flowered ; bracts small, ovate, acuminate. Flowers with a faint 

 odour of Turkish rhubarb, sub-secund, light tawny yelloAV densely 

 sjDotted with chocolate-red ; sepals and petals simikir and sub-equal, 

 ovate, acuminate, incurved ; lip a little smaller than the other segments, 

 three-lobed ; all the lobes acuminate, the intermediate one the largest. 

 Mormodes pardinum, Batem. Orch. Mex. ct Guat. t. 14. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 



XXIV. misc. No. 176 ; and XXIX. sub. t. 33. Bot. Mag. t. 3900. Rchb. in 



Walp. Ann. VI. p. 582. Knowles and Westc. Fl. Cah. t. 113. Williams' Orch. 



Alb. VII. t. 330. 



SUb-var.— ?^nz6'oZ(9r {Bot. Mag. t. 3879), flowers bright lemon-yellow 

 wholly destitute of spots. 



A native of the Mexican province of Oaxaca, originally discovered 

 in 1836 by Karwinsky, and communicated by him to Mr. Bateman, 

 in whose collection at Knypersley it flowered in July, 1838. It 

 was shortly afterwards collected for Mr. Barker by Ross, in whose 

 consignment the variety unicolor first appeared. It is one of the 

 best known Mormodes in British collections. 



