266 ORCHIDS 



Houlletia. 

 are about six flowers on each scape, and each flower is 3in. 

 across; sepals and petals oblong, pale purplish-red, with hnes of 

 a deeper colour ; column and lip white, with a pair of reddish horns 

 at the base ; odour powerful and violet-like. Colombia, 1851. 



Var. antioquensis has broader sepals and petals, and is coloured 

 a rich reddish -crimson, the outside being brown. It is an 

 improvement on the type. 



Var. xanthina has sepals and petals orange-yellow, and a white 

 lip tipped with yellow. 



H. picta (Linden and Rchb. f.). — ^This very handsome Orchid 

 has furrowed pseudo-bulbs 3in. high by lin. broad at the base, 

 tapering towards the top, and bearing a broadly lance-shaped 

 leaf, that measures ijft in length, and narrows at the base into 

 a distinct stalk 2 in. to 3in. long. The floweis are sjin. in 

 diameter, and are produced on a stem that springs firom the 

 base of the pseudo-bulb, and attains a he^t of lift.; vigorous 

 plants will develop nine or ten floweis on a ^Mke. The sepals 

 are narrowly oblong, with rounded tips, and, togedto- with the 

 petals (which are much narrowed at fbe knrer half), are 

 cinnamon-coloured, the basal poitioD of e&dt h&stg tessellated 

 with yellow. The terminal divisioa of die fip b jdk>ir, marked 

 with transverse bars of reddkb^ag^b, speapsfaaped, with a 

 recurving, channelled apex; the inner lofbe ^ jdb>w, spotted 

 with crimson-purple, smaller ax»d snn^wliut fispezifonD, and is 

 furnished at the sides with two assTS^rfng: ^nrs. Tbe lei^th of 

 the whole lip is i^in. A native of OsikE^m. (£L M., t. 6305.) 



HUNTLEYA (Ba/em.^. Hiis e anv iidoded under 

 ZySTopetalum. 



lONOPSiS. 



Very pretty little epiphytal Ordiids, bdcmging to the 

 tribe Vandece, The genus was established by Humboldt, 

 Bonpland, and Kunth, and the name is from torn, a violet, 

 and opsis, like, in allusion to the Violet-like flowors. About 

 ten species have been described, natives of the West 

 Indies and tropical America, but by many the majority 

 of these are regarded as varieties of two species. Flowers 

 small, panicled ; sepals and petals conni\-ent ; lip lai^e, 

 fan-shaped, two-lobed at the apex. Leaves few, lanceolate. 

 Stems very short. The species most seen in cultivation 

 is /. paniculata. It is best accommodated in a basket or a 



