SOBRALIA. (8) 
a truly cuneate lip, in having whitish flowers with a rose-coloured lip, and 
the petals veo eg the sepals, so that the back of the former answers to the 
face of the latter. According to the figure in the Bot. Mag. the anther-bed 
is not cceaie - I never saw the plant 
* 21. S.violacea. Linden. Lindley, Orch. Lind., no. 133. 
S. glabra, vaginis verruculosis, foliis duris lanceolatis alté 
plicatis, bracteis imbricatis duris subfoliaceis flori subsequalibus, 
labello rotundato crispo emarginato levi, clinandrii lobis brevibus. 
(A) Flowers pale violet 
(B) Flowers white, with a yellow disk to the lip. 
Wild in New Grewnava; abundant in the high ee of the 
province of Merida, at the elevation of 6000 to 8000 feet— 
Linden, 615 and 617 Santa tradi Padier B Merida at 
5000 feet — Wagener (e. s. sp. et B v. cult.) 
— resembles S. decora, but is much stronger, has larger flowers, with 
imbricated somewhat leafy bracts, and a convolute lip, not = that of a 
es The variety B flowered with Mr. Rucker in July, 18 
* 22. 8. macrantha, Lindley, Sert., sub t.29. LO., p. 431. 
Bot. Mag., t. 4446. 
. glabra, bracteis spathaceis foliaceis imbricatis tubo floris 
multd longioribus, floribus pluribus maximis, labello nudo : limbo 
maximo emarginato rotundato SS clinandrii lobis 
lateralibus retrorsis obtusis intermedio 2 
(A) purpurea, Flowersrich purple. 
(B) alba, Flowers very pale rose-colour. 
Wild in Mexico; Shady rocks, Hacienda de la Laguna— 
Schiede; Hacienda del Carmen—Hartweg; GuaTEeMaLa— 
Skinner, Warczewitz, (v. v. ¢. et 8. sp.) 
Stems three to six feet high. Flowers very delicate, rich purple, or nearly 
white, deapiaasg sometimes as much as eight inches in diameter, but very 
23. 8. macrophylla, cd. hs im Bot. a Oct. 8, 1852. 
__§. glabra, valida, humilis, foliis lato-ovatis basi attenuatis 
apice acutis in sicca vernixiis cinfaicets, birastea spathacea abbre- 
viata recurva, labello cuneato apice rotundato crispulo producto. 
Wild in Costa Rioa; Chiriqui—Warczewitz. 
Flowers larger than in S. Liliastrwm, yellow. Edges — 
ee f Leaves shining and as iF acaaied: ellen 
* 24. 8, chlorantha. Hooker, Bot. 5 Bot. Mag. t. 4632. 
__ 8. glabra, humilis, foliis coriaceis carnosis leviter striatis 
: oblongis supremis minoribus in bracteam ovatam cucullatam 
ees a Sh “ labello So oe 
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