GONGORA. 40'o 



the base ; leaves cuneate, linear acuminate, attaining i inch in breadth, the 

 iippermost ones are smaller; the reddish peduncle is bent aside, and bears a 

 raceme of eight flowers of unusual colour; sepals and petals lanceolate- 

 acuminate, yellowish with a sepia tint ; lip yellow with very small hyaline, 

 purple dots, scattered in lines on the side lobes and the front lobe " {Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 512).— Vemzue-la. 

 Fig. — Lliidc.nla, ii. t. 90. 



G. HARVEYANA, Rchh. f. — This is a pretty novelty, named in honour of 

 the late E. Harvey, Esq., of Riversdale Road, Aigburth, Liverpool, once a great 

 enthusiast in Orchid culture. In its habit of growth the plant resembles 

 O. Bevoniana. The flowers grow in short racemes, and have cuneate-oblong 

 sepals and petals of a sepia-brown colour, and a, light yellow lip, with a tuft of 

 hair on the anterior portion of the disk ; the lip is dilated in front, and parted 

 into three obtuse lobes, and at the base is extended into a slightly curved spur; 

 the column is bordered on each side with mauve. — Tropical America. 



G. NIVALIS, Hort. — This is a very rare and distinct epiphytal species, 

 and has been recently flowered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. It has slender 

 erect fusiform glaucous stems, long narrow lanceolate grassy leaves, and 

 drooping racemes of rather pretty flowers, which are produced in March, each 

 about 2 inches in length, and having narrow reflexed rich olive-coloured sepals 

 and petals, and a white lip, funnel-shaped at the base, the front lobe broad, flat, 

 expanded and emarginate, and marked with a large central violet-coloured 

 blotch. — Tropical America. 



Fig. — Gard. C/tj'ora., N.s., xvii.p. 537, f. 85; L'lU. Sort .,xs.xu.t.5io ; Veitch's Ifa/i. 

 Orch. PL, ix. p. 9 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1892, xii. p. 431, f . 70. 



GONGORA, Ruiz et Pavon. 

 (Trile Vandeae, suhtrihe Cyrtopodieae.) 

 This genus is somewhat despised by Orchidists, yet it contains some 

 very interesting and free-flowering species, which, as nearly all of them 

 are fragrant, have a claim to our attention. They are compact-growing 

 evergreen pseudobulbous epiphytes, each bulb having two broad plicate 

 leaves contracted into a stalk-like base, and they bear long drooping 

 racemes of singular grotesque-looking richly coloured flowers on scapes 

 which spring from the base of the pseudobulbs. The flowers have the 

 petals and the erect dorsal sepal adnate with the back and sides of the 

 column, and a very peculiar hollow fleshy lip, having two or more awns 

 or horns from near its base. About a score of species are known, 

 all Tropical American. 



Culture. — In the earlier days of Orchid culture one often saw fine 

 specimens of Gongora, but latterly they seem to have become quite 



