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Chondrorhyncha (From chondros cartilage)

(from chondros, cartilage, and rhynchos, a beak; in reference to the beak-like rostellum). ORD. Orchideae. Stove epiphytal Orchids, allied to, and requiring the same cultivation as, Lycaste (which see). C. Chestertoni (Chesterton's).* fl. yellow; lateral sepals developing into a very long, sharp point; petals with a much-developed fringe; lip also with very long fringes. Columbia, 1879. A very curious species. C. fimbriata (fimbriated). fl. very pale sulphur-coloured, with brown spots at the base of the column, solitary; sepals ligulate, acuminate, sometimes undulated at the margin; petals oblong-apiculate, with finely-toothed margins; lip cuneate at the base, flabellato - oblong, three -lobed, or hastate oblong - triangular, bilobed, fimbriate and undulate on the whole of the margin; column clavate. l. cuneate-oblong or cuneate-lanceolate, acute. Roots very numerous, thick, forming a sort of nest. Plant bulbless. New Grenada. (Ref. B. 107.)