Refuguim Botanicum. | “June, 186% 
TARE SL 
Tribe VANDE. 
Genus Ponystracuya, JZook. 
P. ninzaTa (fichb. fil. MSS. tab. antica), var. ELATIOR. —Pseudobulbis 
conico-oblongis, elatioribus, foliis paucioribus, lato Iimeari-ligulatis, 
pedunculo crassiori, latiori, vaginis latioribus, inflorescentiis paucis 
lateralibus, flore ampliori. 
This variety was imported from Vera Cruz, in Mexico. 
Closely resembling that just described, but pseudobulbs conico- 
oblong, longer; leaves fewer, broad lineari-ligulate; peduncle 
thicker; sheaths broader; inflorescence broader, with lateral 
branches ; flowers larger. 
Materials :— A sketch of a little plant flowering in the Saun- 
dersian garden in last October, and the dried inflorescence, as 
well as the description of it, prepared at Reigate. 
Tab. 81.— Plant. 1, flower, oblique view + ; 2, expanded tlower + ; 
3, oblique view of flower, sepals cut off +; 4, hp, oblique view + ; 
5, column, oblique view + ; 6, pollinarium+.—H. G. fi. f. 
I received this plant through the agency of Mons. Boucard. 
It is from some part of Mexico, probably from the vicinity of 
Vera Cruz. It should be treated in the same way as recom- 
mended for Polystachya lineata (see Tab. 80),—W. HW". S. 
