RODRIGUEZIA SECUNDA. 
[PuaTE 351.] 
Native of Tropical America. 
A compact-growing dwarf epiphyte, with small oval compressed pseudobulbs, 
which bear oblong-lanceolate obtuse leaves, somewhat coriaceous in texture and deep 
green. Scape axillary, nodding, six to nine inches long; raceme secund, many- 
flowered. lowers crowded, deep rose-coloured, or lively pink; sepals and petals 
small, erect, nearly equal; lip unguiculate, entire, obovate, furnished with a short 
spur or gibbosity at the base. Column terete, bearded at the apex. 
RoprRIGuEzIA sEecuNDA, Kunth, Botanical Magazine, t. 3524; Botanical Register, 
xi., t. 930; Williams, Orchid-Growers’ Manual, 6 ed., p- 561. 
RoDRIGUEZIA LANCEOLATA, Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 676; 
PLEUROTHALLIS coccInEA, Hooker’s Exotic Flora, t. 129. 
This is a somewhat small genus of epiphytes, originally named by Ruiz and 
Pavon, to do honour to Emmanuel Rodriguez, a Spanish doctor and botanist of 
eminence of that time, afterwards some of the species were transferred to the genus 
Gomeza of Brown, but this Lindley considered insufficiently distinct to be maintained. 
‘Other authors, again, refer the members of Burlingtonia to Rodriguezia, from which, 
however, to us they appear distinct. Be this as it may, the plant we here figure is 
& most distinct and pretty Orchid; its bulbs and foliage are small, and its racemes 
of bright pink flowers are very graceful, whilst its dwarf habit allows of its being 
accommodated by those whose space is very limited. The plant appears to have been 
introduced some seventy years ago, but yet it is seldom seen in cultivation, 
although said to be plentiful in a wild state, where it appears to prefer dead 
wood; and we trust that the publicity given to this species by the publication of 
the present plate, may restore it to popularity, and thus induce collectors to send 
masses of it home in quantity, as it cannot fail to well repay those who delight 
in these small-growing and exceedingly interesting plants. For the opportunity of 
figuring this beautiful small-growing species we are indebted to the kindness of 
Professor Dyer, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in which collection 
are to be found many exceedingly curious and interesting plants, which one seldom 
has the opportunity of examining elsewhere. : 
Rodriguezia secunda is an evergreen species, having small, oval, compressed 
pseudobulbs, and light green leaves. The spikes are produced in the axils of the 
leaves, near the base of the bulbs, and attain a length of from six to nine inches ; 
