Refugium Botanicum.] [December, 1872. 
TAB. 129, 
Tribe VANDES. 
Genus Ropriauezis, R. Pav. 
R. rerracta, Lichb. f. Walp. Ann. vi. 695! Pseudobulbis ancipitis 
pyriformibus monophyllis, basi vaginis triangulis acutis 
stipatis, folio pseudobulbi cuneato-oblongo acuto, racemo 
paucifloro porrecto, parte anantha plurivaginata, bracteis 
triangulis ovario pedicellato pluries brevioribus, sepalo dorsali 
cuneato-obovato obtuse acuto, sepalis lateralibus in unum 
corpus naviculare angustum apice incurvum bidentatum 
connatis, refractiis cum ovario pedicellato parallelum, tepalis 
cuneato-obovatis hine apiculatis hine obtusis, labello ungui- 
culato in laminam quadratam obtusangulam panduratam 
emarginatam extenso, lamellis seriatis angulatis retrorsum 
decrescentibus utrinque quaternis seu quinis a disco in basin, 
mediis productis, calcari solido lato lineari acuto elongato 
retrorso a vagina sepalorum lateralium inyoluto, ex parte 
adnato, columna clavata glabra, brachiis duobus juxta foveam, 
duobus juxta androclinium nune ligulatis acutis nunc faleatis. 
—Burlingtonia refracta, Lindl. Gardn. Chronicle, 22nd October, 
18538, 679 b! 
For a long while this plant was to me a very doubtful one. 
Dr. Lindley had described it after having got a living specimen 
from Mr. Skinner, and dried specimens from Santa Martha, 
Purdie, who was collector for Kew Gardens. I possess a copy of 
Dr. Lindley’s original analytical sketches, and a rich specimen 
from Purdie with the author’s own hand-writing; but I was always 
bothered by finding the Purdiean specimen very different from 
the original description and analytical sketch, so that I never 
could come to the point. Finally came the fresh inflorescence 
from the plant now represented. After longer consideration, 
I keep the name for this, which entirely corresponds with 
Dr. Lindley’s description and analytical sketch. There is but 
one single difference, of no great importance. Dr. Lindley says 
the flowers are dirty white, a little stained with purple, and the 
elevations of the lip spotted with dull red. Director Linden’s 
plant, sent in the spring of 1867, said to come from northern 
Peru, had the flowers whitish yellow, with purplish spots round 
