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CHONDRORHYNCHA CHESTERTONI rcup. F. 
M. CHESTERTON’S CHONDRORHYNCHA. 
CHONDRORHYNCHA. Sepala subaequilonga, anguste oblonga, posticum basi columnae adnatum, concavum, 
carinatum, lateralia basi obliqua, pedi brevissimo columnae adnata. Petala sepalis multo latiora, obovato-oblonga. 
Labellum cum pede columnae articulatum, sessile, latum, erectum, concavum, indivisum, basi intus callo tridentato 
instructum. Columna semiteres, superne utrinque dilatata, basi in pedem brevissimum producta; clinandrium valde 
obliquum, integrum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, unilocularis ; pollinia 4, cerea, angusta, acuminata, 
per paria sibimet incumbentia, postice minora, i dicul: anthera dehi: stipiti crasso affixa, glandula molli. 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus brevissimis plurifoliatis non pseudobulbosis. Folia oblonga, plicato-venosa, in 
petiolum contracta. Scapus e rhizomate simplex, paucivaginatus, flore unico majusculo. 
Species 4, Columbianae. 
Chondrorhyncha LinDL. Orch, Linden., p. 12. — BENTH. et Hook. Fr. Gen. Plant., Ill, p. 548. 
Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni, Affinis C. fimbriatae Reus. F., sepalis angustioribus, lateralibus acuminatis ; petalis 
a basi cuneato-ligulatis longe fimbriatis; labello cuneato oblongo pandurato emarginato lobulato fimbriato, callo ante 
basin, antice tridentato, area incrassata utrinque, dentes non attingente. Flores flavi. Nova Granada. Det. CHESTERTON. 
Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni RcuB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1879, ii, p. 648. 
he above is Retcuenzacn’s diagnosis of this rare and very imperfectly 
| known species, published as long ago as 187g. Its further history is 
thus recorded : — 
“ This is a very remarkable Neo-Granadan discovery of Mr Cuesrerton, 
whose herbarium is at hand. The flower is larger than that of the well-known 
Chondrorhyncha (Stenia) funbriata. The sepals are narrower, the lateral ones 
developing into a very long sharp point. The petals are narrower, with a very 
much developed fringe, where there are but teeth to be seen in the old species. 
The lip is narrower and much longer than that organ in C. fimbriata, with very 
long fringes, and the anterior part of the callus stands with its three teeth 
outside the thickened area, when the rather blunt callus of C. fimbriata stands 
amidst it. ” 
Whether the species ever passed into cultivation I do not know, but if so 
it must have quickly disappeared, for I fail to trace any further record about it. 
But it has now been introduced by Messrs Linpen, L’Horticutrure InTERNA- 
TIONALE, Brussels, and we may hope that so beautiful a thing will secure a 
permanent place in our collections, as the cultivation of these cool Orchids is 
now so much better understood, and the allied C. Lendyana Reus. r., has been 
successfully treated at Glasnevin, and elsewhere. It would be well, however, not 
to be too sanguine, for ReicHenBacu, speaking of the allied C. fimbriata, in 
Saunpers’ Refugium Botanicum, I, t. 107, remarked : — 
“ There is no doubt that the plant is very curious, nor that it will have 
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