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" This curious plant is a native of the Havannah, from 

 whence it was brought by Capt. Sutton of Flushing, near 

 Falmouth, in the spring of 1835, and added to Sir Charles 

 Lemon's collection at Carclew, where it flowered in September. 



" Pseudo-bulbs flat and compressed, growing in large 

 masses, and laid over one another with great regularity. 

 Each bulb is nearly round, and about an inch in diameter, 

 tapering a little towards the crown, which is terminated 

 sometimes by one, but more generally by two, thinnish, rigid, 

 smooth, slightly recurved, yellowish green leaves, from four 

 to six inches long, and an inch broad, reflexed and un- 

 dulated at the margin with an obtuse, oblique, and emargi- 

 nate point. Scape about six inches high, in our specimen 

 seven-flowered, round, erect and pale green, issuing from a 

 thin, oblong, two-edged, pointed kind of sheath, which rises 

 from between the two leaves, and which in old decayed spe- 

 cimens is seen to proceed with the flower-stem from the 

 crown of the pseudo -bulbs. Flowers produced on pedicels 

 of about an inch in length, small and round at their junc- 

 tion with the scape, but otherwise three-angled and twisted. 

 Sepals spreading, oblong acuminate, nearly uniform in size 

 and colour, excepting the two inner ones which are some- 

 what narrower than the rest. All of them are of a dingV 

 yellowish green, irregularly marked on the inside with dull 

 reddish brown spots, and a little reflexed at the edges. La- 

 bellum pale yellow, nearly white, cordate acute, with the 

 sides bent downwards and much recurved, about as long as 

 the sepals and projecting horizontally from them with the 

 column to which it is partly attached. Column about half 

 the length of the I'abellum, rather paler in colour, becoming 

 greenish and faintly spotted at the base, from which it 

 thickens outwardly, and has on each side a deep longitudi- 

 nal groove that gives it a triangular appearance. Anthers 

 deep yellow, seated in a depression at the extremity of the 



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"On first comparing the plant with the figure of JEpiden- 

 drum varkgatum of the Botanical Magazine, I was almost in- 

 clmed to consider them identical, but a closer examination 

 has led me to alter my opinion, although it must be acknow- 

 ledged that the two are very closely allied. The principal 

 pomts of difference appear to be in the size and form of the 

 pseudo-bulbs, which in E, varkgatum are oblong, whereas 



