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Schomburgkia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 386, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

S. chionodora (snow-gift). fl. white, with a purple spot on the lip, numerous; sepals ligulate, acute; petals spathulate, blunt; lip large, four-lobed, toothleted and wavy, with five entire keels on the disk. l. cuneate-oblong, obtuse, 4in. to 5in. broad. Pseudo-bulbs many-angled, 1ft. long or more, having but a single, central cavity. Central America, 1886. S. c. Kimballiana (W. S. Kimball's). fl. light purple; inflorescence with numerous branches. 1888.

S. Humboldtii (Humboldt's). fl. resembling those of a Laelia; sepals and petals wavy, pale lilac, the petals tinted purple towards the apex; lip with triangular, amethyst-purple side lobes, and a bilobed, fringed and crisped front lobe, of a bright purple, with paler streaks, the disk yellow, with five to seven keels, purple towards their base. Venezuela. S. marginata immarginata (not margined). This is chiefly dependent for its character on the absence of yellow margins on the sepals and petals. 1887. S. Thomsoniana (Thomson's). fl. light yellow and sulphur, with purple markings; sepals and petals ligulate, acute, undulated; lip trifid, the lateral segments triangular, extrorse, obtuse, the middle one ligulate, emarginate, much crisped. 1887. Allied to S. tibicinis. SYN. Bletia Thomsoniana.