1 74 ROPEIGUEZIA. 



overhanging tlie river SuritOj a confluent of the Magdalena. It is a 

 pretty dwarf species well worthy of cultivation.* 



R. pubescens. 



Leaves narrowly ligulate, acute, 5 — 7, very leathery. Racemes 



pendulous, longer than the leaves, 10 — 15 flowered. Flowers nearly 



1^ inches in diameter, white with a yellow blotch at the base of the 



hp ; dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, acute ; lateral sepals much narrower, 



connate and with a small gibbosity at the base ; petals obovate-oblong, 



obtuse ; lip obovate, two-lobed in front, auricled at the base, the auricles 



minute, hastate, erect; the disk with three unequal raised lines. Column 



downy ; wings minute. 



Eodriguezia pubescens, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. X. p. 771 (1852). Id. in Walp. Ann. 

 VI. p. 694. Lindenia, VII. t. 306. Gard. Chron. XI. s. 3 (1892), p. 426, icon, 

 xyl. R. Lindenii, Coigniaux in Linden's Journ. des Orcli. III. pp. 10, 12, fig. 1. 

 Burlingtonia pubescens, Liudl. in Paxt. FI. Gard. I. p. 158 (1850 — 51). 



The following, by Dr. Lindley in Paxton's Floioer Garden, loc. cit., 

 is the earliest notice we find of this species : — 



" This beautiful Rodriguezia was exhibited at a meeting of the 



Horticultural Society some years ago when it received a silver medal. 



It had been sent to Mr. John Ivnowles, of Manchester, from Pernambuco, 



where it appears to be very rare. It is not now, however, introduced 



for the first time, for we have in our possession a dried specimen 



communicated by the late Mr, George Loddiges in 1846, at which time 



we named it jp'M^escens in allusion to the down on the column which 



is not found in the other drooping, white-flowered species." 



Quite recently Rodriguezia pubescens has been re-introduced by 



L' Horticulture Internationale of Brussels, and by Messrs. Sander and Co. 



of St. Albans. It is one of the most chaste and attractive species 



of the genus. 



R. secunda. 



Pseudo-bulbs oval-oblong, compressed, 1| — 2 inches long, mono- 

 diphyllous. Leaves linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acute, 5 — 9 inches, 

 long, more or less conduplicate, very leathery. Scapes as long as the 

 lono-est leaves, pale green tinged with dull crimson, racemose along 

 the distal half, nodding or arched, many-flowered. Flowers distichous 

 and secund (all turned in one direction whence the specific name), 

 on pale rose-pink pedicels sheathed at the base by a small lanceolate, 

 acute bract ; sepals and petals of a uniform rose-pink, the upper sepal 

 oval-oblong, concave on the inner side ; the lateral sepals connate into 

 a boat-shaped body, gibbous at the base, attenuated at the apex ; 



* Very near Eodriguezia granadensis, if not a yariety of it, is E. Caloplectro7i (Rchb.), 

 figured in the Gartenflora of 1892, t. 1372. 



