the pollen-masses sessile upon a crescent-shaped gland as in 
Peristerias. 
The flowers of this plant are formed in a pendulous 
raceme, as much as eighteen inches long; the lower part 
being clethed with distant short blunt scales, which extend 
into bracts about half the length of the pedicels. Each 
raceme consists of nine or ten flowers of a dull greenish 
yellow, covered externally with short hairs; their petals have 
three streaks of violet ; their lip is downy all over the upper 
surface, dark purple in the middle, with two or three spots of 
the same colour near the point. In the centre of the lower 
half is a large shaggy hump. 
Fig. 1, represents the column and petals; 2, the labellum 
spread open ; 3, pollen-apparatus. 
It may be grown in a wire basket like a Stanhopea, or 
tied to a block of wood and suspended to a rafter, in a moist 
stove. If potted in the usual way, the flower-spike will be 
apt to go down into the soil and perish. Like many other 
Orchidaceous plants it requires an ample supply of water 
during the growing season, and shade in sunny weather, at a 
temperature between 80° and 90° by day, but not above 
70° at night. Towards the end of October water should 
almost be withheld for a few weeks, no more being given 
than will prevent the pseudo-bulbs from shriveling. 
