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RODRIGUEZIA PUBESCENS rcup. F. 
THE PUBESCENT RODRIGUEZIA. 
RODRIGUEZIA. Sepala subaequilonga, posticum liberum, petaloideum, lateralia angusta, alte connata, omnia 
erecta, conniventia v. lateralia sub labello patentia v. reflexa, rarius incurvo-ascendentia mentum sub labello formantia. 
Petala sepalo postico similia. Labellum basi columnae continuum v. brevissime connatum, erectum, basi in calcar breve 
v. gibbum saepius solidum productum, ungue columnae parallelo, lamina patente obovato v. obcordato sepala saepe 
éxcedente, disco saepius cristato. Columna erecta, tenuis, apoda, apice clavata v. in brachia v. auriculas 2 varie pro- 
ducta ; clinandrii lobi laterales nunc longe producti nunc abbreviati. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incumbens, valde 
connexa y. galeata, 1-locularis; pollinia 2, cerea, ovoidea v. subglobosa, sulcata, inappendiculata, anthera dehiscente 
stipiti lineari v. basi dilatato affixo, glandula oblonga. 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus secus rhizoma interdum elongatum brevibus pseudobulbo 1-2-foliato terminatis, Folia 
oblonga v. elongata, coriacea. Scapi sub pseudobulbo axillares, erecti. Racemi simplices, floribundi, floribus saepius 
speciosis. 
Species ad 20, Americae tropicae a Brasilia usque ad Americam centralem incolae. 
Rodriguezia Ruiz et Pav. Prodr. Fl. Peru et Chile (1794), p. 115, t. 25. — BENTH. et Hook. F. Gen. Plant., 
III, p. 559. 
Burlingtonia LINDL. Bot. Reg., XXII (1837), t. 1927. 
Rodriguezia pubescens. Acaulis ; foliis coriaceis apice carinatis mucronatis; racemis densissimis pendulis; sepalo 
postico oblongo-lanceolato acuto, sepala lateralia alte connata angustiora basi gibbo-incurva; petala obovato-oblonga 
subobtusa ; labello obovato bilobo breviter hastato laciniis erectis, cristae lamellis utrinque 3 valde inaequalibus ; 
columnae basi pubescentis alis 2 minutis subulatis albis 2 oblongo-linearibus porrectis. 
Rodriguezia pubescens RcuB. F. in Mohl & Schlecht. Bot. Zeit., X (1852), p. 771. — Ip. in Walp. Ann., VI, 
p. 694. 
Burlingtonia pubescens LINDL. in Paxt. Fl. Gard., I (1850-1), p. 158. — Rene. F. in Walp. Ann., III, p. 554. 
his elegant and beautiful species was originally described by Dr. Linptey, 
in Paxton’s Flower Garden, in 1851, under the name of Burlingtonia 
pubescens — the identity of the genus Burlingtonia with the earlier 
Rodriguezia being then unknown. From this source we learn that it was exhibited 
at a Meeting of the Horticultural Society in November 1850, when it received 
a Silver Medal. “ It formed a wide tuft of dark green rigid leaves, pouring forth 
from their bosom a profusion of bunches of snow-white blossoms. It had been 
sent to Joun Know es, Esq., of Manchester, from some friends in Pernambuco, 
where it appears to be very rare. It is not new, however, for we have in our 
possession a dried specimen, communicated by the late Mr. Gzorce Loppiczs, 
in November 1846, at which time we named it pubescens in allusion to the down 
on the column, which is not found in the other drooping white-flowered species. ” 
It has occasionally been met with in collections during recent years, but 
cannot be considered by any means a common plant. Messrs LinpENn have, 
however, imported a number of plants, which have flowered finely during the 
present autumn, from one of which the annexed plate has been prepared. 
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