SCHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS. 
[PLate 205.] 
Native of Honduras. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs clustered, terete, tapering upwards so as to become 
conical, annulate, furrowed, hollow and horn-like, one to two feet long. Leaves coriaceous, 
two or three from the apex of the bulbs, oblong, emarginate, spreading. Scape 
very long, sometimes as much as ten feet, terminal, becoming fully developed 
with the young stems as_ they complete their growth, and bearing its handsome 
brightly coloured flowers in a large pyramidal panicle. Flowers two and a-half 
inches across, the exterior of a pale mauve streaked with white on the lower side 
of the lip; sepals oblong obtuse, spreading, slightly undulated, of a purple-chocolate 
inside, paler and whitish towards the base, the lateral ones shorter; petals also 
oblong and spreading, equalling the dorsal sepal, somewhat more undulated, similar 
in colour; lip large and prominent, oblong, three-lobed, the large oblong lateral 
lobes ineurved for nearly their whole length, the outer surface deep mauve-purple, 
the inner surface yellow with the sides veined with crimson, and having five elevated 
veins along the centre; the short front lobe rounded, sub-rhomboid, emarginate, whitish 
in the centre, and of a deep rose colour at the margin. Column about half as long 
as the lip, white stained with purple, deflexed. 
ScHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS, Bateman, in Botanical Register, 1844, miscell. no. 119; 
Id.,  Orchidacee of Mexico and Guatemala, t. 30; Flore des Serres, t. 49 
(grandiflora); Lindley, Botanical Register, 1845, t. 30 (grandiflora); Hooker, 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4476 (grandiflora). 
Epmpenprum tisictnis, Bateman, in Botanical Register, 1838, miscell. no, 12. 
_ Brera trercrnis, Reichenbach fil, in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematicea, 
Vi, 429 
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The genus we now introduce to our readers is one of small extent, but contains 
a few species that bear beautiful flowers. Their great faults are producing very long 
gaunt stems, and being shy blooming; but they are useful and accommodating, 
inasmuch ag they help to produce an effective arrangement of colours, for the 
cultivator can place his plants in any position, so that the raceme of flowers may 
hang or come in wherever he wishes it, in order to produce the best appearance. 
We have seen these plants with splendid spikes of flowers shown many years ago 
at Chiswick, and also at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s Park, by several growers, 
and they proved very useful in arranging a good and varied collection, for although 
the peduncle was long, the grand panicle of flowers could be brought to the front, 
the plant being set at the back of the collection, and the mass of handsome 
flowers brought forward to any required position. If the plant has several flowering 
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