light vegetable mould, in which a small portion of loam and 
silver sand has been mixed. 
Said to be a native of Brazil; but this we conceive 
must be an error; it is more probably an inhabitant of 
either tropical Africa or India. 
Leaves rising from a scaly, bulbous base, linear-lanceo¬ 
late, acute, 3-nerved, sheathing at base; venae primaricE 
parallel, contiguous, venulae proprice very few, communes 
none at all. Scape radical, erect, round, sheathed. Spike 
long, many-flowered. Flowers solitary, shewy. Bractece 
ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the ovarium. Perianthium 
spreading. Exterior sepals oblong, obtuse, spreading, 
spotted with olive-green, at the base, excepting at the 
bottom of the labellum, entirely distinct; the two inner 
larger, yellow, roundish, veiny, twisted round by a turn in 
their unguis, quite separate at base. Labellum yellow, 
distinct, jointed with the base of the columna, calcarate, 
3-lobed; lateral lobes erect, middle one oblong, retuse, 
with 3 ribs above; spur straight, twice as short as ovarium. 
Columna distinct, erect, half-round, somewhat clavate; 
clinandrium flattish, sloping forwards; rostellum ovate; 
stigma excavated. Anther ovate, without a crest, length¬ 
ened in front into a pale cartilaginous beak, half two-celled, 
with the lower valves nearly complete, and membranous. 
Pollen masses 2, oblong, furrowed behind; caudicula flat, 
linear, cartilaginous; gland small, brown. 
