PL. CCLXVI. 
COCHLIODA NOEZLIANA rolfe. 
M. JOHN NOEZLI’S COCHLIODA. 
COCHLIODA. Sepala aequalia, patentia, libéra vel lateralia basi vel ad medium connata, mentum breve nunc 
obscurum formantia. Petala sepalis subsimilia. Labelli unguis erectus, columnam arcte amplectens eique plus minus 
adnatus; lamina patens, lobis lateralibus rotundatis saepe reflexis, medio angusto integro vel emarginato sepala non 
excedente ; discus basi saepe membrana vel callo appendiculatus. Columna erecta, saepe leviter incurva, tenuis vel crassa, 
semiteres, cum labello plus minus connata, exalata, basi in pedem brevissimum producta vel fere apoda; clinandrium 
truncatum vel obliquum vel saepe membranaceo-trilobum, interdum denticulatum. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, incum- 
bens, imperfecte bilocularis; pollinia 2, cerea, ovoidea vel subglobosa, sulcata, inappendiculata, anthera déhiscente 
stipiti piano brevi latoque vel oblongo affixa, glandula majuscula. 
Herbae epiphyticae, caulibus brevissimis pseudobulbo 1-2 foliato terminatis. Folia oblonga vel angusta, coriacea, 
in petiolum contracta. Scapi sub pseudobulbo 1-2, basi folio vel vaginis foliaceis stipati, simplices vel parce ramosi. 
Flores saepissime eleganter rubri, luxiuscule racemosi, pedicellati. 
Species 5, Andium Americae australis incolae. 
Cochlioda Lindl. Folia Orch., Cochl. (1853), p. 1. — Benth. in jfourn. Linn. Soc., XVIII, p. 327. — 
Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant., III, p. 560. 
Cochlioda Noezliana. Pseudobulbis ovoideo-oblongis, compressis, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis, scapo arcuato 
paniculato, bracteis lanceolatis acutis, sepalis liberis lineari-oblongis mucronatis, petalis latioribus, labello trilobo, 
lobo medio late oblongo subtruncato emarginato, lobis lateralibus late rotundatis, callis duobus linearibus in disco, 
columna subclavata. 
Cochlioda Noezliana Rolfe, supra. 
Odontoglossum Noezlianum Hort., Gard. Chron., 1890, pt. 2, pp. 570, 602. — Journ. des Orch., I, p. 294. 
his is a charming novelty, of very graceful habit, and bearing a 
brancbing panicle of medium-sized, orange-scarlet flowers, witb a 
yellow dise. It was introduced by Messrs Linden, L’Horticulture Inter¬ 
nationale, Parc Léopold, Brussels, doubtless from some part of the Andes of 
South America, though I hâve no information on this point. A plant was exhibited 
at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society on November n th . of last year, 
when it was awarded a Botanical Certificate. 
It is dedicated to M. John Noezli, its discoverer. 
As to the genus, a somewhat difficult point arises. The genus Cochlioda was 
established by Lindley, in 1853, upon a plant collected by Matthews, in Peru, 
It was described as having flowers with the shape and adnate lip of an Epiden- 
drum, though the habit was that of an Odontoglossum, and the nature of the 
pollinarium showed unmistakably that it was nearly allied to the last-named 
genus. The same author, however, had previously described another species, with 
identical structure, as Odontoglossum roseum , in 1844. Reichenbach first trans- 
ferred Cochlioda to Odontoglossum, and afterwards to his genus Mesospinidium, 
though it is certainly different in structure from the latter, and I cannot under- 
