ANGULOA EBUENEA. 



[Plate 133.] 



Native of Colomhia. 



%ipliytal. Pscudobulhs oblong attenuated at tlie apex, four inches high, furrowed, 

 dark green, sheathed while young with large leafy scales, which gradually pass into 

 the true leaves, becoming leafless in age. Leaves broadly elliptic-lanceolate acute, 

 strongly ribbed and of thin herbaceous texture. Scape stout, springing from tlic base of 

 the pseudobulbs, eight to ten inches high, with one or two distinct sheatliing ovate 

 acummate pale green bracts. Flowers large, solitary at the top of the nvr-t sci]..', 

 subglobose, of a clear ivory w^hite ; sepals broadly orbicular- ovate, acute, cuculhitoly 

 concave, the^ margins of the dorsal and the tips of the connivtMit Litem! ones 



Ip white spotted with 



recurved, white; petals smaller, enclosed, , , 



pmk, turned up so to be parallel to the column, three-lobcd, the lateral lobes 

 broad narrowed to a point which is recurved, the middle lobe small, triangular, 

 deflexed with a furrow down the centre. Column clavate, the apex ^\)th three 

 projecting subulate-triangular teeth directed downwards. 



Anguloa ebuekea, Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 3 ed., 67; Id., cd. 5, 91. 



Of this small Orchidic genus there are but few species known in cultivation. 

 All those we have seen bear curiously-formed flowers, and are very sho^y. Hie 

 species now before us has the flowers of an ivory white, and these when in bloom 

 form a good contrast with the yellow flowers of Anguloa Cloivesii and the beautifully 

 spotted flowers of A, RmTceri and its variety A. Ruclceri sanguinm, a figure of which 

 latter plant wdl be found at Plate 19 of our first volume. There are buc^idcs oth.-r 

 species, but those we have mentioned are among the most showy. 



^ Anguloa' ehurnea, ' our present subject, is an exceedingly rare and a very 

 distinct species, which indeed we have seen in very few collections. Wc are 

 indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, M.R, of Burford Lodge, Dorking, wl..-o 

 . collection, as is well known, abounds in rare Orchids, for the opportunity of 



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the accompanying fi 



like tlic other Anguloas this is a plant of hold and majestic habit, produ. ,ng 



largo dark green pseudobulbs several inches high, crowned with the ampN- hvoly 

 f een Mage, which attains a foot and a half in height. The flowers, which are 



l^'ory white, proceed from the base of the pseudobulbs on scap.s eight to t..« 

 "ichos in height. The chaxaeter of these plants is to show their flowers after thnr 



pseudobulbs are well matured, and when the resting season has been comple H, 

 tie young gi-owth also appearing at the same time. The flowers are gencrallj 



