Plate 196. 



MESOSPINIDIUM SANGUINEUM. 



BosT/ Mesospinidium. 



Qen. Char. Perigonium siitcarnosum, clausum. Sepalum summura lanceolatum ; sepala 

 lateralia connata, apice bifida, lacini^ utr^que lancea basi subsaccato labello supposita ; petala 

 triangulo-lanceolata, acuta, sepalis basi vix imbricantibus. Lahellum cuneatum, obcordatum, 

 limbo revoluto, carinjB duge, unguem marginantes, eboracese, nunc antice lobatee canalem velutmum 



lamella 



e excavatum. Androdinii limbus u1 

 bicuspidatum. AntJiera unilocularis 

 minute Derforata. Caiidicida linear: 



Oolumna semiteres, antice 



cuspidata. Pollinia globosa, 

 I lancea. Character ex Rchb. 



Wall 



Mesospinibium 



racemis 



Imgulato acuto, lateralibus erectis, carini llneari per disci basin supenorem apice sc. medio 



labello divergenti bicruri, androclinio minute lobulato. 

 sospiNiDicM sanguineum. Bchh.Jll. Walp. Annaks, I.e. Bot. Mag. t. 5627. 



A very pretty plant, with nodding racemes in the way of those of liodr,gues,a 



secunda, but larger and handsomer. Unlike the latter species, which is found abun- 

 dantly at the embouchure of the Amazon river, and which -therefore luxunates in a 



great degree of heat and moisture, this Mesospinidhm is met with at a great election, 



and consequently in a cool climate, among the Peruvian and Quitensian Andes whence 

 descend some of the largest tributaries of that most magnificent of all streams. Although 

 discovered by Jameson more than twenty years ago, and subsequently met with by 

 Warszewicz, it does not appear to have ever reached this country alive before the yea, 

 1866, when plants of it were received in excellent condition from Ecuador by th 



Messrs. Backhouse, of York, who exhibited a flowering specmienofit-from which the 



Plate was derived-at one of the Tuesday meetings at ^of Kensington in Wmbe. 

 last. It appears quite at home in what may conveniently be termed the Feiu^an 

 house" as meant to include the coolest and dampest section of temperate Orchids, while 



the " Mexican house 

 last, but still cool. 



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ould indicate a climate somewhat warmer and drier than 



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