Tab. 6331. 
BOLLEA Lalindei. 
Native of New Granada. 
Nat. Ord. Orchidace^. — Tribe VandejE. 
G-enus Bollea (Reichenb. fit. in Mohl & Schlecht. Rot. Zeit. vol. 1852, 
p. 667.) 
Bollea Lcilindei ; aff. Bolleae violacese, Reiclienb. fil. ; foliis angnste cuneato- 
ligulatis acutis, floribus solitariis, sepalis latis oblongo-ovatis petalis 
lateralibus late oblongis subplanis, labello a basi hastato triangulo antice 
utrinque implicito, hinc quasi grossetridentato, sinubus inter dentes obtusan- 
gulis, callo in disco multisulcato columna angustiori utrinque angulato, sulcis 
rugosis, angulo deorsum verso. — Rchh. 
B. Lalindei, Reichenb. fit. in Gard. Glvron. 1874, part ii. p. 33. 
For the discovery of this beautiful species we are indebted 
to Mr. Lalinde, of Medellin. A fresh flower was furnished to 
Dr. Reichenbach, by Messrs. Veitch, in 1874, apropos of 
which the notice in 4 Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ cited above, was 
drawn up. Our figure is from a specimen flowered by Messrs. 
Williams, of Holloway, last August, which differs materially 
in colour from the plant described by Reichenbach. In the 
latter the flower is of a beautiful bright violet with the tip 
of the upper sepal green, the lower half of the lower sepals 
brownish-purple ; the lip deep orange and the column deep 
purplish. Notwithstanding these great differences in color- 
ation, there is no doubt as to the agreement of the speci- 
men here figured with Reichenbach’s specific description in 
the diagnostic characters taken from the peculiar form of the 
lip, and the great breadth of the column which completely 
arches over the plaited palate. 
I have already in this Magazine under Tab. 6214 and 6240, 
given it as my opinion that Bollea should, with Pescatoria and 
other genera there enumerated, be regarded as sections of 
NOVEMBER 1ST, 1877. 
