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sequalibus obtusis conniventibus, labelli liberi tripartlti lobis lateralibus 

 erectis linearibus apice rotundatis intermedio acuto ovali multu brevioribus, 

 callo sulcato piano elevato basi lobi intermedii. 



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*' This curious plant was imported from Havanuah in the 



spring of 1835, by Captain Sutton, and added to Sir Charles 



Lemon's collection at Carclew, where it flowered for the first 



time in July 1837, and continued in perfection for several 

 weeks. 



** Pseudo-bulbs, one-leaved, nearly round, about the size 

 of a large marble, enveloped at first in a thin brown cover- 

 ing, which afterwards dies ofi". They are then of a deep 

 green, rather wrinkled, with a tinge of reddish brown on the 

 exposed side. Leaves, upright, thick and rigid, from four to 

 eight inches long, and about three-fourths of an inch broad; 

 oblong lanceolate; a little keeled at the base and twisted, but 

 otherwise flat with a roundish obtuse point. Scape, solitary, 

 rising from the crown of the bulb to the height of from twelve 

 to fifteen inches, round, wiry, and slender, with several 

 joints, each of which is surrounded by a small, thin, brown, 

 acuminate, persistent bractea. The flowers are from twenty 

 to thirty or more on each scape, arranged in a curved, loose, 

 branched panicle, each- branch supporting from three to 

 seven flowers. Pedicels, nearly an inch long, small and 

 round, thickening outwardly, where they become slightly 

 angular, and have a brownish spot in the middle. Sepals, 

 spreading, oblong, lanceolate acute ; about half an inch long, 

 and one-eighth of an inch broad, thick and fleshy, a little 

 recurved at the margin, and incurved at the point. Petals, 

 rather smaller and thinner than the sepals, but very similar 

 in form and colour : the latter is a dingy yellowish green on 

 both sides, with four or five brownish, longitudinal veins, so 

 much branched at the extremity, as to give both sepals and 

 petals a reticulated appearance. LabcUum, deeply three- 

 lobed ; the middle one, which is nearly the length of the 

 sepals, is flat, ovate-acuminate, and incurved at the point; 

 of a pale yellowish colour, almost white, streaked with pink 

 in the centre, and having two oblong fleshy processes at its 

 base. The two lateral lobes are only half the length of the 

 middle one, roundish oblong, converging at the point, so as 

 to embrace and conceal the column, and marked inwardly 

 with four or five dee^ purple lines or veins. Column, 

 slightly curved, three-sided, rounded above, hollowed be- 



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