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petals, is magenta-rose, marked with a few rosy-purple spots at the base 

 and softening ofE towards the margin. In addition to this the flowers are 



furnished with spurs about 2 inches long. The 

 blossoms are produced in July and August. We 

 have seen a fine specimen of this in the collection 

 of F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.O., Oldfleld, Biokley, 

 which bore several spikes of its charming flowers. 

 ■ — New Grenada. 

 Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 6.5 ; But. Mag., t. G679. 



C. SPECIOSA, Rchh.f. — A very beautiful species, 

 bearing loose racemes of numerous large flowers, 

 which are remarkable for their broad lip and long 

 spur. The sepals and petals are light orange 

 with a cinnabar glow ; and the lip has the front 

 coMPARETTiA MACROPLECTROs. lobe sub-quadrate and emarginate, about one and 



a quarter inch wide, with a very short claw and 

 a small keel between the basal auricles, the colour being of the finest cinnabar, 

 orange at the base. The spur is minutely pilose, and more than an inch and a 

 half in length. It has been flowered and exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., and awarded a first-class certificate. — Ecuador. 



Fia.—0rc7dd Alhitm, v. t. 233. 



CORYANTHES, Hooker. 



{Tribe Yandeae, suhtribe Stanhopieae.) 



The flowers of these plants are very extraordinary-looking objects. 

 They are of large size, and before they open are of the shape of a 

 Chinese foot ; after opening, the large sepals, which at first are spread 

 out, soon collapse, as do the smaller petals ; the lip is pendulous from 

 the end of 'a stout arm or claw, beyond which, at the base, it is developed 

 into a hood-like body (hjrpochil), and at the apex terminates in a helmet- 

 -shaped pouch (epichil), the hinder part of which (mesochil) is involute ; 

 the pouch is connected with the hood by a hollowed fleshy stalk, which 

 in some of the species is encircled by transverse fleshy folds and ridges ; 

 near the base of the arm are a pair of finger-like lobes which secrete a 

 «weet fluid, and this, as long as the flower is in vigour, continues to drip 

 from them into the pouch. The plants are evergreen and pseudo- 

 bulbous ; the leaves lanceolate plicate, 10 inches long, and 2 or 3 inches 

 "broad. They produce their flowers from the base of the bulbs on a 

 ■drooping spike, four or five together. The few species, some five or six 

 altogether, are found in Tropical South America. 



