gradually swells, and becomes a green pseudobulb, of an 
ovate or oblong figure. The scape is radical, and a foot 
and a half or two feet high, sometimes bearing as many as 
6 or 8 flowers expanded at once. They are less perish- 
able than those of many of the Orchis tribe; their sepals 
and petals are greenish, spotted with irregular blotches of 
brownish purple; the labellum is a bright blue, deeply 
stained with darker lines, and has at its base a remarkable 
fleshy, elevated, lunate, transverse ridge. 
Eulophia is readily known among the genera most 
nearly allied to it, by its ascending sepals and crested cal- 
carate labellum: the crest is seen under various forms, 
sometimes as a few elevated lines, sometimes as a number 
of thick ridges, or, as in the present case, in the form ofa 
thick transverse hump. The length of the spur is very 
variable. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society in November 1828. 
J. L. 
