Tab. 6288. 
I 
EESTEEPIA ANTENNIFERA. 
Native of the Andes of New Grenada. 
Nat. Orel. Orchideye. — Tribe Pleurothallideye. 
Genus Restrepia, H. B. and K. ; Lindt. Fol. Orchid. 
Restrepia antennifera; caulibus fasciculatis simplicibus strictis vaginatis, vaginis 
subinflatis, foliis bre viter petiolatis ovatis obtusis basi rotundatis v. cordatis, 
scapis gracilibus, sepalo clorsali lanceolato serrulato in caudam elongatam 
erecto-recurvam apice clavellatam producto, lateralibus labello suppositis 
lineari-oblongis in larainam oblongam denticulatam apice 2-lobam basin ver- 
sus utrinque appendice subulato instructam connatis flaviclis creberrime 
kermesino guttatis, petalis filiformibus basi lanceolatis apice clavellatis, 
labello parvulo panduriformi obtuso sepalis lateralibus appresso iisque con- 
colore, columna gracili marginibus erosis. 
R. antennifera, H. B . and K. Nov. Gen. and Sp. vol. i, p. 294, t. 94 ; Lindt. Gen. 
and Sp. Orchid. 14 ; Id. Fol. Orchid Restrepia, p. 1 ; Reichb. in Walp. Ann. 
vol. vi. p. 203 ; Lemaire, III. Hortic. t. 601. 
R. maculata, Lindl. Orchid. Lind . 
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This, the first discovered and described species of the sin- 
gular genus Restrepia , has not hitherto been accurately figured 
and described. Humboldt’s plate, which though done from a 
dried specimen, is very characteristic in most particulars, 
represents a proliferously 2 -leaved state, and omits the serru- 
lation of the outer perianth segments and margins of the 
column, as also the free tips of the lateral sepals, whilst Le- 
maire represents the stem sheaths as uniformly lacerate and 
terminated by a filiform point, and omits both the serrula- 
tion of the perianth, etc., and the subulate processes on the 
outer margins of the lateral sepals. 
R. antennifera was discovered by Humboldt on the trunks 
of trees near Easto, at an elevation of 9000 feet (French), 
and it has since been found by several travellers in different 
localities in Hew Grenada, between 6000 and 10,500 feet, 
and in Venezuela. Our plant flowered in the cool orchid- 
i house at Kew, in January of the present year. 
Descr. Stems tufted, stout, simple, erect or ascending, 
APRTL 1st, 1877. 
