PESCATOREA KLABOCHORUM. 
[PiatEe 17.] 
Native of Ecuador. 
Epiphytal. Stems none or consisting of ‘a short crown or growing point from which 
the leaves and stout fibrous roots proceed. Leaves tufted, numerous, imbricated at the 
base, erect or spreading, lanceolate, acute, twelve to fifteen inches long, and about 
two inches wide, deep green above, paler beneath, thin but firm in texture: Flowers 
large and showy, measuring about three inches in diameter, the peduncles springing 
from the axils of the lower leaves; dorsal sepal obovate-oblong, acute, about an 
inch and a half long, white’ in the lower half, and of a velvety chocolate purple 
in the upper portion; lateral sepals more distinctly oblong, being less narrowed at 
the base, acute, and attached obliquely to the chin of the flower; petals obovate- 
oblong, like the dorsal sepal, acute, white, deeply tipped with chocolate purple; lip 
distinctly stalked, with a sharply incurved claw, normally trowel-shaped when spread 
out, three-lobed, the lateral lobes prolonged, acute, and incurved so as to meet the 
base of the column, the middle lobe obtusely cordate, sulcate, with the edge 
recurved so as to bring it to a narrow triangular outline; it is white, with the 
whole surface, except the margin, covered with short purple-tipped papille, or ‘styli- 
form processes,’ ranged in combined lines; on the disk is a large semicircular 
lamellate ruff or frill, extending to the base, and consisting of numerous (about 20) 
erect folds or lamellae, which are white below and of a deep rich purple along the 
edge of the folds, forming a series of stripes extending inwards to the base of 
the lip. Column  stoutish, angulate on both sides at the base, semiterete, dark 
purple, three-fourths of an inch long, projected over the basal ruff. 
Pescatorea Krtasocorum, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.s. xi., 684; 
xi, 167; Paxton’s Flower Garden, re-issue, t. 21. 
_ 4ycorrratum Kuazocuorum, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.S. Xi, 684, 
Until quite recently but few species of Pescatorea were known in cultivation. 
Latterly, however, several new ones have been introduced into this country, and 
Orchid cultivators have now more numerous opportunities of admiring the beautiful 
plants which are referred to this genus, 
Pescatorea Klabochorum was introduced from Ecuador, by Franz Klaboch, a 
nephew of Herr Roezl, one of the most successful plant collectors of our time, and 
is named in commemoration of him and his surviving brother, also a traveller and 
collector. The first plants, brought home some four or five y — 
purchased by Messrs. J. ames’ Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, and were distributed by 
them; but since then it has been several times re-introduced, and ep now to be 
found in numerous: collections, Several varieties have been already noticed. : It So 
to have been first flowered in 1878 in England, by John Day, Esq., and in Scotlan 
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