Refugium Botanieum.] [December, 1872. 
TAB. 128. 
Tribe VANDEX. 
Genus Ropricuezia, R. Pav. 
R. Baremant, Pépp. Endl. Nov. Gen. dé Sp. vol.i.t. 70! Radicibus 
fiiformibus apice multirameis albis apice viridibus elongatis 
plus quam pedahbus de caule disticho ochroleuco triangulo 
scarioso vaginato pendulis, pseudobulbis ovoideis nitidissimis 
prasinis demum sulcatis compressis, foliis stipantibus articu- 
latis vaginis limbo libero membranaceo scariosis, laminis 
cuneatis late ligulatis inequaliter acutis, folio pseudobulbi 
cuneato-oblongo ligulato acuto, racemo paucifloro porrecto seu 
pendulo, nune densifloro, bracteis triangulis carinatis acutis 
ovaria pedicellata longe non equantibus, sepalo superiori 
cuneato-oblongo fornicato acuto, sepalo inferiori subequali 
curvulo acuto basi gibbo, tepalis cuneato-obovatis obtuse 
acutis, labello utrinque ante basin angulato, lato ligulato 
antice dilatato marginato, carinis geminis per medium, ante 
basin utrinque in plicam extrorsam excurrentibus, calcari 
solido parco conico acuto seu emarginato minutissime verru- 
culoso brevissimo, column brachiis erectis ligulatis acutius- 
culis seu faleatis.— Rurlingtonia rubescens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxiii. 
Sub. 1927! Rodriguezia Batemani, Popp. Endl. Walp. Ann. 
vi. 694! Rehb. f. in Gardn. Chronicle, 1866, 1042! Flores 
albo-virides. Tepala et labellum purpureo aspersa, imo striata. 
It was in 1830 that the late Professor Péppig discovered this 
graceful plant near Maynas, in Peru, growing on calabash trees: 
coming home, in 1833, so exhausted that he seemed to have but 
a few months to live, he was appointed to Leipsic; there, having 
enjoyed the visit of young Mr. Bateman, who, no doubt, knew 
Orchids better than he, he dedicated the plant to the young 
English traveller. Thus matters stood till 1866; then the plant 
flowered with Director Linden, sent by Mr. Wallis from Moya- 
bamba, I believe. I obtained flowers from Director Linden and 
the Lord Bishop of Winchester. There is, however, no great 
hope of keeping the plant long in gardens. It was a very 
difficult task to ascertain the identity of the Pédppigian and 
the Lindenian plants, since Dr. Poppig’s specimens are not 
prepared in such a manner as to make investigation easy. 
