(3) SOBRALIA. 
cymbiformibus, labello oblongo indiviso denticulato levi medio 
trinervi basi alté sulcato imappendiculato, clinandrii dentibus 
brevibus incurvis. 
S. Ruckeri. Linden in litt. 
Wild in Perv, in ravines near iy honk ie aes oe 
1874; New Grewnapa, in marshy places in t of 
Ocafia, at the elevation of 9000 foe t—Schlim, 32 ; te Carillos, 
near Pamplona, at the elevation of 8500 feet—Schlim, 65, 
. s. sp. comm. cel. Linden.) 
m four to six feet high.—Péppig. Leaves — ribbed. ng almost 
a foot I long, with t boat-shaped herbaceous or reddish bracts, like those 
of a Heliconia, c ers amar n 
pale a rose mons (P6é PPD)» or bright crimson (Linden), most beautiful. 
There is me bei ‘Oppig’s ; 
I cannot find the gore that mg speaks of — m the upper end of the middle 
of the fg and which he does no oie figu re. We have nothing in cultivation 
eas § tegen and this S. r 
o calli or lamelle at tthe base of the lip of this species, but 
instead, a pair al sara § sagenerg by the confluence of the veins, which 
even tually are reduced to f the lip. 
a: 
. santha, 
S. misbre tol foliis ovali-lanceolatis subcarnosis arcté be spo 
spicd flexuosi triflora, bracteis foliaceis lanceolati s basi 
eucullatis, labello obovato retuso crispo costd ‘ih levi ins 
— elevatis rugosis, clinandrii dentibus ibus maxi- 
s falcatis emarginatis ‘dorso alt& carinatis dorsali cucullato 
ar dimidiam ——— 
Wild in New Grenada, in the ago of Socorro, at the 
height of 4000 feet —Schiim, 6, (v. 8. sp. comm. cel. Linden.) 
Flowers two inches long, “of a beautiful pants’ "__ Schlim. This remarkable 
plant has leaves about eight inches long, as nearly as possible alike at either 
end, The lip has no appen whatever near the base, but has a stiff middle 
rib. The lateral teeth of the anther-bed are very large, with a dee 
at their back and an obli margination ; the middle tooth is fleshy and 
so much excavated as to D thin its a des, e polle 
masses were very imperfectly seen by me; they ap o with one 
or more deep furrows or lobes, too much pressed together to <s distinguishable, 
paradisiaca. chd. in Linn., XXII. 8 
s. giken foliis oblongis acuminatis basi nouns spicd 
multifioraé flexuosa, bracteis lo mee S — foliaceis _— 
vaginali parte deficiente, labello ngo basi angustiore antice 
retuso undulato nudo (concavo ?), clinandrii dentibus zqualibus. 
Wild in New Grenapa; Merida, at 5000 fect—Funk and Sehlim, 
1489 ; 7000 ine haem - (v. s, sp. comm. cel. Linden.) 
‘mek hole tees flowers flesh ay we gs tag Tain as 
oe 
ciable in my ii “s such plants as &. oe — 
