very impatient of culture. We believe it will succeed better 
in a hot, damp, shady frame, than in any other situation. 
All the other species of this genus which have been 
published are natives of Nepal; but we have reason to 
believe, that there are several other Sierra Leone species 
in the gardens, besides that which is now for the first time 
figured. 
A very tender stove plant, with small ovate, fleshy, 
roundish bulbs. Leaves solitary, two or three inches long, 
oval, spreading, obliquely emarginate at the end, fleshy, 
flat, beneath spotted with purple. Scapes radical, pendu¬ 
lous, scaly, with distant narrow acute bracteae. Flowers 
imbricated in a 4-cornered spike, small, not inverted. 
Bractes the length of the flowers, ovate-acuminate, trans¬ 
parent, reddish. Ovarium short, straight, turbinate, with¬ 
out ribs. Perianthium regular, spreading, longer than the 
ovary. Outer'sepals equal, triangular, acute, valvate, nerve¬ 
less, green, ciliated ; the lateral ones united at their bases 
with the foot of the columna : inner shorter, obovate, pale 
green, obtuse. Labellum small, red-purple, ovate, entire, 
fleshy in the axis, excavated at the base, jointed with the 
sinus formed by the cohesion of the lateral outer sepals, 
incumbent upon the columna. Columna short, straight, 
half-round, elongated at the base as far as the sinus of th^ 
lateral exterior sepals. Stigma hollowed out, half-closed 
up by the indexed margins, awned at the upper end on 
each side. Anther terminal, opercular, persistent, as it 
appears to me, one-celled. Pollen-masses two, roundish, 
each furrowed on the inside so as to appear as if furnished 
with a smaller lobe. Caudicula and gland none. 
J. L. 
Erratum.—In part of the impression of the last Number, fols. 961 and 962 
were by accident transposed. The letter-press of fol. 961 belongs to tab. 
962, and of fol. 962 to tab. 961. 
