gongorA. 407 



vci'tical plate, double at its upper edge and gibbous at its base ; the column is 

 very long, curved, broadest upwards, semi-cylindrical, bearing on its back and 

 sides tbe upper sepal and the two petals; the pedicels are purple. — Trinidad. 



Via.— But. Mag., t. 3220 ; HooJt. Exot. Fl., 1. 178 ; Mannd, But., iii. t. 108 ; Booh. 

 First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 59. 



G. BARBATA, Lemaire. — This is a rare and pretty species. It thrives well 

 upon a block of wood. Pseudobulbs fusiform, closely-jointed, clothed with 

 numerous large ovate sheathing bracts; leaves distichous, linear-lanceolate, 

 deep green above, almost white beneath ; scape terminal, nodding, bearing a 

 raceme of from two to five flowers ; flowers showy, sepals and petals erect, rich 

 olive-brown ; lip very long and narrow, convolute, forming a long tube, which 

 runs out at the base into a long conical spur, basal part of the lip roSy-pink, 

 front portion white, tipped with rosy-pink, and bearing on the disk numerous 

 rosy-pink crested protuberances. Mowers in the summer months. — West Indies. 



Via.—L'Ill. Hurt., vii. t. 248. 



G. BUFONIA, Lindl. — An interesting species resembling 0. maculaia in its 

 mode of growth, having both the pseudobulbs and leaves of a pale whitish-green. 

 The flowers in this species are of a dull pale wine-purple, very irregularly stained 

 and spotted on an obscure yellowish-white ground, and bear a pair of long 

 setaceous bristles on the hypochil ; the pedicels are purple. The variety 'major 

 has larger flowers than those of the type. — Braxil. 



Via.—Bot. Mag., 1841, t. 2. 



G. CHARLESWORTHll, Bolfe.—" Hahit of G. ti-uncata. Leaves broadly 

 plicate, about 1 foot long by 2^ inches broad; scape arching, about 1| foot long, 

 sixteen to twenty-flowered."' The flowers are described as " nearly white, barred 

 with a very light brownish-purple of a peculiar shade on the sepals " {Orchid 

 Review, i. p. 198). It was exhibited by Messrs. Obarlesworth, Shuttleworth, 

 & Co., at the Temple Show in May, 1893. — Native country not stated. 



G. FLAVEOLA, Rchb. f. — "This Oongora is near to G. gratulahunda and 

 G. pleiochroma. It bears a rich raceme of distinct flowers, which are light 

 ochre-yellow; the lip darker, more yellow; column green; there are brown 

 spots on the base of the long narrow median sepal, and on the petals, lip, and 

 column ; the peduncle is angulate, by no means compressed. It was grown and 

 kindly presented to me by Mr. J. O'Brien, of Harrow-on-the-Hill " (H. Gr. 

 Keichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1886, xxvi. p. 456). 



G. GALEATA See Acropeea. Loddigesii. 



G. JENISCHll See G. odoeatissima. 



G. MACRANTHA. — See Cokyanthes macrantiia. 



G. MACULATA, Lindl. — This rather handsome plant grows about 18 inches 

 high, and has ovate-oblong strongly-ribbed pseudobulbs, dark green five-nerved 

 broadly lanceolate leaves, and long drooping racemes upwards of a foo't in 

 length, and produced from the base of the bulbs, of elegant flowers, which are 

 of a clear yellow with bright reddish-brown bars and spots, and very showy, the 



