RESTREPIA. (2) 
2. R. ele €fans (Karsten Gewiichse Venezuelas c. ic. R. punctulata m 
litt. et folio ovali caule dupld longiore, vaginis rectis, labello em, hilt 
basi cavo dilatato utri nque unidentato..... ‘wraccas (on the mossy 
= = of oss es at the height of 5—6000’, Karsten) ; Columbia, Linden. h. 8. ¢. 
pare t i 
amic. Klotzsch 
yellow spotted with purple. Leaves oval, not at all o I 
the lip, and Karsten’s figure does not show ichathoen it is oie ‘a’ I wanipai 
or merely spotted. 
Q 
i= 
§ 2. Monophylle. Labellum ecirrhosum. 
3. R. guttulata @ (Lindl. in Compan. Bot. Mag. 2 end tee abba —_ 
caule multd breviore, vaginis rectis, labello aes — 
‘hi “ a ss 
0 ve aby ik n- 
tennifera, but larger in every part, and aoibe a stitute of. cirrhi at the rte of 
the lip. If this latter character should prove variable then the plant will 
perhaps have to be reduced to R. antennifera, Ihave only seen two cpectionne 
and examined one. 
4. R. erythroxantha (Rchb. f. in Linnsea 22. 817; Bonpland. Jan. get os 
ares I. 171. t. 60) ; folio elliptico basi rotundato caule breviore, vaginis re 
axi i 1 ) 
description is silent on that point. as Os ea ree Bract yellowish 
dotted with purple. Upper sepal and petals with the interstices of 
the veins at the base pale. Front t sepals and ey poet oth Column crimson.” 
= Lansbergii esi fi bs is Boal Jan. 15, 1854, Xenia I. 171. t. 60.) ; 
folis ovali cauli equali, vaginis rectis arctd imbricatis , labello lineari truncato 
mutico = Besse latiore-——— cas, agener. Venezuela, 
Fendler, Sep h. s, sp.——Resembles small ones of R. eis 
Plowern gheaitiol barr wn, speckled,” Fendler; “upper sepal and petals 
crimson, front sepals white with crimson dots, lip yellow with purple plotthes” 
B. Wageneri —— 1, c. Xenia, t. —— —— labello minus — 
pclae i mer; Fendler, 1485, 8. h. P od art bo 
and petals purple, i nd front 3, om yellow otte : pu 
Rehb.; “flowers yellowish purple with b wn stripes ; surface of 
—— minutely and ‘anal dotted ith | black. " Fen ler. 
ot persuade os that the plants here collected are more than — 
june of one ¢ on species. Fendler so considered them, ju 
tag appearance hen chb., i 
as 
portant 
‘and in m Yeu, Shier ee the lip i is ; decidedly 
les degree than in R Lansbergii, which is itself little 
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