Aérial roots filiform, with many branches at their top, white, 
with green apex, more than a foot long, coming from the short 
trunk with ochroleucous distichous triangular scariose sheath. 
Pseudobulbs ovoid, very shining, leek-coloured, finally suleate com- 
pressed. Leaves beneath the bulb articulate, with scariose mem- 
branous borders to the sheath and cuneate broadly ligulate un- 
equally acute blades. Leaf of pseudobulb cuneate-oblong ligulate 
acute. Itaceme few-flowered, dense, porrect or pendulous. Bracts 
triangular, keeled, acute, not nearly equalling the stalked ovaries. 
Upper sepal cuneate-oblong-acute fornicate. Inferior sepal nearly 
equal, curved, acute, gibbous at the base. Tepals cuneate-obovate 
bluntly acute. Lip angular on both sides before the base, broad, 
ligulate, dilated and emarginate, with two membranous keels from 
the base of the widened anterior part, ending in an extrorse fold 
on the basilar angle; spur solid conical acute or emurginate, very 
short, with very small.warts. Arms of column erect, higulate- 
acute or sulcate. F'lowers whitish or greenish. ‘Tepals and lip 
with four purplish streaks. 
Materials :—Sketches of fresh flowers and of Dr. Péppig’s dry 
specimens; description from fresh plant in the Saundersian 
collection ; four herbarium specimens; inspection of the Péppigian 
types in Vienna Herbarium. 
Tab. 128.—Plant. 1, flower, side view +; 2, flower, front view + ; 
8, side view of lip, involving the column +; 4, expanded lip + ; 
5, column, side view +; 6, top of column, front view +; 7, pol- 
linarium +. Fig. 4 given by Professor Reichenbach. The colours 
have been observed by our artist brighter than I, alas! ever happened 
to see them. 
A very pretty and interesting species of Rodriguezia, requiring 
the same treatment as T'richopilia fragrans, Tab. 127. I received 
the plant from Mons. J. Linden, who procured it from Peru.— 
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