Plate 159. 



ANGULOA UNIFLORA. 



One-fiowered Anguloa. 



Gen: Char. {Vide supra, Plate 144.) 



Anguloa uniflora; pedunculo uni-floro radical! squamis base imbricatis hiflato-tubulosis va- 



ginato, sepalis ovatis acuminatis cucullato-concavis scpalis subconformibus minuribus luu- 

 dice concavis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus rotundatis obtusissimis iiitermedio liiicari-anfrnsto 

 reflexo-revoluto, columna apice laciniis duabus subulatis auctu. 



Anguloa uniflora. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. Syst. p. 228. Fl. Perm. Prodr. p. 118. t,2Cj. LindL 



Gen. d 8p. Orchid, p. 160. Pot. Peg. 1844. t 60. 



Anguloa virginalis. Hort. 

 Anguloa ebumea. Tlort, 



Three species— all from New Granada— of this remarkable genus are now known, 



viz. A. Clowem (the best of them all), Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 63, A. Buclceri, Lindl. Bot. Keg. 

 1846, t. 41, and A. uni/lora, Ruiz et Pav., Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1814, t. 60, but it is to the 

 latter that the present species must be referred, differing only in the colour of the flower, 

 hei'e tinged with blush, and spotted with the same tint. There are many varieties of 

 this species, some of them of a purer white, and much larger than others. All the 



Anguloas 



gi 



may be consid 



shady part of the Orchid-house 



as cool Orchid^, except when growing, and oven then they 



nly a moderate degree of heat. Mr. Rucker finds them-at the season in 



question— to do best under the shade of vines. u u ^ 



Descr. Fseudohulhs oblong, attenuated, furrowed, clustered ; younger ones sheathed 

 with large green membranaceous scales, which gradually pass into true leaves, of which 

 there are three or four, broad, elliptical-lanceolate, acute, membranaceous, striated. 

 Peduncle, or scape, from the base of the pseudobulbs, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 sheathed with membranous green hracteas, and bearing one large flower from the 



uppermost sheaths. Sepals 



two Icjwer or lateral 



almost cucullate at the lower base; all fleshy, as arc the p.^«/^, whirh arc similar 

 shape to the sepals, but narrower and smaller. The>^er is a dirty crenni-colo 

 tinged and spotted, chiefly within, with pink. Up as long as the column, to whici 



