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in the small monophyllous pseudobulbs, and the colour of the flower with a 
tew transverse bars at the base of the segments, though I do not trace the 
linear-oblong bracts nor yet the rounded column wings of the latter, so that 
the origin of the plant remains doubtful, and it may yet prove to be a local 
form allied to O. Rossii. The following are thereferences to descriptions 
and figures :— 
Odontoglossum X Warnerianum, Rchb. f. in Bot. Zeit., 1864, p. 297; 
Gard. Chron., 1865, p. 579, with fig.; Warn Sel. Orch., ii.; t: 20; Batern. 
Monogr. Odont., t. 13, fig. I. 
O. Rossii var. Warnerianum, Veitch. Man. Orch., i., p. 65. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
(To be continued.) 
GONGORA CHARONTIS. 
Ir Is interesting to note the re-appearance in gardens of a long-lost species. 
Gongora Charontis was originally described by Reichenbach in 1877, from 
dried specimens which were collected in New Grenada by Gustav Wallis 
(Linnea, xli., p. 110), and was introduced to cultivation some years later by 
Mr. Bull, through his collector Mr. Shuttleworth, when Reichenbach again 
noted it (Gard. Chron., 1877, vii., p. 684), as follows:—‘‘A strong, big, 
rounded, shining bulb, with great leaves, and producing a hairy spike with 
numerous gay flowers. Sepals and small petals yellow, spotted with brown. 
Lip white, its apex and basilar wings rich yellowish, spotted with crimson, 
as is the white column. The flowers are half the size of those of old G. 
atropurpurea. It was discovered long since in New Grenada by Mr. 
Gustav Wallis; it has, however, only reached Europe in a dried state, and 
I had not the least idea of its gay appearance (gay, of course, for an old- 
fashioned Orchidist who does not confine his love to flowers of one-third 
of a foot in diameter, painted in white, scarlet, purple, or crimson). I saw 
itin April at Mr. Buil’s nursery, where it had been sent by Mr. Shuttle- 
worth from New Grenada.” In the technical description it was noted as 
allied to G. scaphephorus, Rchb. f. and Warsc., but the flowers smaller and 
the hypochil of the lip aristate. Until now I have only known the species 
by description, but a Colombian species which has just flowered with Mr. 
F. W. Moore, at the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, agrees so well that 
I believe it represents the lost plant, especially as it is the only species of 
this section of the genus which I had not previously seen. The hairy scape 
would be anomalous in the genus, but the puberulous appearance seems to 
me due to innumerable crystal-like bodies in the epidermis of the scape. | 
have only seen the scape, which has been sent to Kew for determination. 
R. A. RoiFe. 
