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erect, 12 — 15 inches high, terminating in a 10 — 15 flowered raceme ; 



bracts small, membraneous, sheathing. Flowers 1| inch long ; sepals 



and petals white spotted with brovvn, the dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, 



the lateral two narrowly oblong, connate to beyond the middle, all 



apiculate ; petals elliptic-oblong, much broader than the sepals ; lip Avith 



a broad claw on which are five raised lines, and a sub-orbicular two- 



lobed white blade. Column terete, prolonged into two erect, purple, 



hairy horns and two smaller and shorter smooth pale ones. 



Kodriguezia decora, Rchb. in "Walp. Ann. VI. p. 692 (1863). Benth. Gen. Plant. 

 III. p. 559. Burlingtonia decora, Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. II. t. 188 (1851). Van 

 Houtte's Fl. des Serves, VII. t. 716. Lindl. in Paxt. FI. Gard. III. p. 100, icon, 

 xyl. Bot. 3Iag. t. 4834. 



var.— picta. 



Pseudo-bulbs less compressed ; leaves shorter and more acute ; sepals 



and petals blotched with sanguineous purple. 



R. decora picta, Benth. Gen. Plant. III. p. 559. Burlingtonia decora picta, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5419. 



This species is well distinguished among Rodriguezias by its 



scandent habitj its curiously- shaped but very pretty flowers, and 



especially by the horn-like prolongations of the column.* It was 



first introduced from the province of Sao Paulo in southern Brazil 



by M. de Jonghe through his collector Libon; it flowered for the 



first time in Europe in M. Jacob Makoy's nursery at Liege in 



May, 1851. The variety was received from southern Brazil by 



Mr. Bateman in 1863. 



R. granadensis. 



Leaves lanceolate, acute, 3 — 4 inches long, in tufts of threes and 



fours, the uppermost pair enclosing a small monophyllous pseudo-bulb 



about the size of a filbert. Eacemes pendulous, longer than the leaves 



5 — 7 flowered. Flowers an inch in diameter, white with a yellow 



blotch on the disk of the lip; dorsal sepal and petals sub-equal, ovate 



acute ; lateral sepals much narrower and connate into a boat-shaped 



body ; lip clawed, obovate, emarginate. Column narrowly Avinged. 



Kodriguezia granadensis, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 695 (1863). Burlingtonia 

 granadensis, Lindl. Orch. Lind. p. 24 (1846). 



Discovered by Linden in 1842 near Pamplona on the eastern 



Cordillera of New Granada, but not introduced till many years 



afterwards. It was detected by one of our own collectors in 1887 



near Mantanza growing on the small twigs of shrubs and low trees 



* Very near Rodriguczia decora and quite agreeing with it in its scandent habit is R. 

 rigida, figured in Lindley's Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 36, and Paxton's Magazine of Botany 

 VIII. p. 193. It was cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges more than half a century aco but 

 we find no mention of it since. ° ' 



