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Gongora (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 80, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. aurantiaca (orange). fl. of a bright vermilion-orange, distantly arranged in nodding spikes, lasting a long time in perfection; scapes erect, about 1ft. high. Autumn and early spring. New Grenada. A distinct, evergreen species. SYN. Acropera aurantiaca (B. M. 5501).

G. flaveola (yellowish). fl. light ochre-yellow, spotted brown, distant; lip with a sigmoid claw, and having a median bristle and very small basilar horns to the basal part (hypochil); peduncle angulate, bearing a rich raceme. ?1886 G. Jenischii (Jenisch's). A synonym of G. odoratissima. G. maculata alba (white). fl. pure white, with a few spots of rose on the lip. May. Pseudo-bulbs more deeply ribbed than in the type. G. m. tricolor (three-coloured). A synonym of G. tricolor. G. odoratissima (highly odorous). fl. clear yellow, mottled and blotched reddish-brown; upper sepal and petals adherent to the back and sides of the curved column, while the lip is continuous with its base, clawed, the basal part (hypochil) arched and laterally compressed, with a pair of petaloid processes on the back; the upper part (epichil) acutely elongate-ovate, the sides folded face to face; racemes drooping. l. broadly lanceolate. Venezuela. (F. d. S. 229.) SYN. G. Jenischii.

G. tricolor (three-coloured). fl., sepals deep, bright yellow, blotched sienna-brown, the dorsal one lanceolate, affixed half-way up the back of the column, the lateral ones obliquely triangular; petals pale yellow, lightly spotted, small; hypochil white, oblong, convex, two-horned at base, the epichil stained on the sides with cinnamon; racemes stout, drooping. Pseudobulbs thickly ribbed. Panama or Peru. (B. R. 1847, 69, under name of G. maculata tricolor.) G. truncata (truncate). fl. whitish or straw-coloured freckled brownish-purple; dorsal sepal obovate, carinate, the lateral ones roundish-oblong, very blunt; petals small; lip clear yellow, curved, the hypochil compressed in the middle and bearing two awns in front, the epichil ovate, channelled; pedicels mottled purple. Mexico. (B. R. 1845, 56.)