188 COCHLIODA. 



nodding, or pendulous, nearly as long again as the leaves, racemose, 



sometimes i^aniculate, many-flowered. Flowers about an inch in diameter, 



orange-scarlet, the disk of the lip yellow ; dorsal sepal and petals 



oval-oblong, acute, the lateral sepals similar but narrower and longer; 



lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes oblong, obtuse, the intermediate lobe 



bluntly obcordate ; crest consisting of four short tooth-like plates, bright 



yellow. Column triquetral, darker in colour than the other parts of 



the flower. 



Cochlioda Noezliana, Rolfe in Lindenia, V. t. 266 (1891). Odontoglossum 

 Noezlianum, Hort. Linden. 



A very handsome species introduced in 1891 by Messrs. Linden, 

 L'Horticulture Internationale of Brussels, from South America through 

 its discoverer, M. John Noezli. It was also introduced into British 

 gardens about the same time by Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth 

 and Co., who inform us that their plants were collected in northern 

 Peru, near the locality in which Cochlioda vulcanica is found, 



0. rosea. 



Pseudo-bulbs broadly ovate, much compressed, about 2 inches long, 

 diphyllous. Leaves narrowly ligulate, acute, 6 — '8 inches long. Racemes 

 as long as the leaves, elegantly curved ; bracts awl-shaped, half as long 

 as the pedicel and ovary. Flowers scarcely an inch in diameter; sepals 

 and petals elliptic-oblong, acute, spreading, bright rose-carmine ; lip as 

 long as the petals, three-lobed, the lobes lighter in colour than the petals, 

 the lateral two rounded, the intermediate longer, narrowly oblong, re flexed ; 

 crest consisting of four slightly divergent white rounded plates, of which 

 the middle two are the longest. Column white, three-toothed at the apex. 

 Cochlioda rosea, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. p. 327 (1881). Odontoglossum 



roseiim, Lindl. in Benth. PI. Hartweg, p. 151 (1844). Id. Foh Orch. Odont. No. 



65. £ot. Mag. t. 6084. Batein. Monogr. Odont. t. 22. Rchb. in Walp. Ann. 



IV. p. 848. lllus. hort. XVIII. t. 66. Mesospinidium roseum, Rchb. in Gard. 



Chron. 1872, p. 392, sub. M. vulcanicum. 



Discovered by Hartweg on the Peruvian Andes near Loxa during 

 his exploration of the region in 1840—41 for the Horticultural Society 

 of London, but not introduced till 1865, when plants were sent to 

 M. Linden^s horticultural establishment at Ghent by Gustav Wallis-. 

 It was shortly afterwards introduced by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, 

 into British gardens, in which it is often met with under the name of 

 Odontoglossum roseum to which genus it was originally referred by 

 Lindley. 



0. sanguinea. 



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

 mottled with brown in transverse lines, diphyllous. Leaves linear, acute, 



