PL. COCXRIV. 
HOULLETIA ODORATISSIMA inven. 
THE SWEETEST HOULLETIA. 
HOULLETIA. Sepala subaequalia, libera, patentia, Petala sepalis similia v. basi angustiora. Labellum cum 
basi columnae continuum, patens, angustum, carnosum, lobi laterales unguem crassum seu hypochilium marginantes, 
postice in processus corniformes retrorsum arcuatos producti, medius articulatus, indivisus latiusculus, basi saepe 
crassiuscula, sammie) exalata, apoda v. basi in pedem brevissi- 
mum producta, unilocularis; pollinia 2, cerea, anguste oblonga, i 
v. lineari affixa, glandula indistincta. 
truncatus v. biauriculatus. Columna incurvo- -erecta, 
pp ulata, anthera dehiscente stipiti angusto 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus brevissimis vaginatis unifoliatis mox in pseudobulbum carnosum incrassatis. Folium 
amplum, plicato-venosum, in petiolum longiusculum contractum, Scapi inter pseudobulbos erecti v. recurvi, simplices, 
paucivaginati. Flores majusculi, laxe racemosi, longiuscule pedicellati. Bracteae pedicello multo breviores, 
Species 8, Americae tropicae a Peruvia et Brassilia usque ad Costa Ricam incolae. 
Houlletia BRONGN. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, XV, Pp. 37- — BenTH. & Hook. Fr. Gen. Plant. III, Pp. 550. 
Houlletia odoratissima. Pseudobulbi ovato- -oblongi, unifoliati. Folium petiolatum, lanceolatum, acutum, plicato- 
venosum. Scapus strictus; racemus multiflorus, Bracteae anguste | 1 inatae. Sepala oblongo-lanceolata, 
acuta, patentia. Petala subconformia, paullo minora. Labellum trilobum, epichilio unguiculato ovato obtuso subsagittato 
undique intra marginem verrucoso angulis posticis obtusis, mesochilio dente longo linguiformi apice acuto cirrhis 
ascendentibus falcatis columna brevioribus, hypochilio appendice pedicellata cyathiformi aucto. Columna elongata, 
clavata. 
Houlletia odoratissima LINDEN ex LinDL. in Paxt. Fl. Gard., UI (1852-3), p. 172. — Pescatorea, t. 3. — 
Reus. F. in Walp. Ann., VI, p. 616. — Gard. Chron. (1885), pt. II, P- 777, fig. 173. — Gartenflora, XXXVI, 
p. 222. — Orchidophile (1887), p. 273, cum ic. 
Var. antioquiensis ANDRE in Ill. Hort., XVII (1870), p. 59, t. 12. — WARN. & WILL. Orchid Album, VU, 
t. 316. — Revue de l’Hort. Belge, 1890, p. 121, cum ic. 
Var. xanthina Reus. F. in Gard. Chron. (1884), pt. 2, p. 38. 
m@ oulletia odoratissima was originally introduced by M. Linven, from New 
Grenada, where it was found by Scuim, on the borders of rivulets in 
Siaees) the province of Soto, in New Grenada, in 1849, and again in 1851, in 
the forests of Weinmannia, near Teorama, in the province of Ocana. It was 
first described in the third volume of Paxton’s Flower Garden, in 1853, by 
D* Linptey, where we read that “ its extremely aromatic odour discovered 
its presence at a considerable distance, on which account M. LinpeEN calls it 
H. odoratissima. ” 
It flowered for the first time in Europe in the collection of M. Pescatorg, at 
St. Cloud, near Paris, in January 1852. 
The variety antioquiensis, which chiefly differs in its larger, darker-coloured 
flowers, with broader petals, was discovered in 1868, in the province of Antioquia, 
in the same country, by M. Gustav WaLtis, when collecting for M. Linpen. 
It was described and figured in the Illustration Horticole for 1870. 
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