

shorter than the literal sepal*. The HTFOCIHLHm is narrow. Bit, spotted with brown, and hollowed 

 out next the fool of the column into a kind of twodipped funnel j from its interior end spring two 

 long linear-lnnccolatc taper-pointcd appendages, which torn back toward, the column, reaching 

 utmost half w«y up it; just it the junction of the hypochiliuni iml cpichilium, and between those 

 appendages is a minute reflcxed fleshy tooth, such w is found in the same situation in Staohopea. 

 The BPiciiiLiUMisbroiidertl.au the last, with which it is articulated ; in colour it is a deep rich 

 violet; in form it is somewhat triangular, with curved sides, and at the lower angles it is extended 

 into a very narrow acuminate appendage, so that upon the whole it has sometime, the form techni- 

 cally called hastate. The column" is curved, rounded at the back, slightly concave in front, thicker 

 at the upper than the lower cud. The polhm-massc* arc two, deeply two-lobed at the back, and 

 planted on the end of a long narrow cnudiculu. which runs into an acute gland in such a manner 

 that the tm. arc completely blei.de' together. The solitary withered flower, which alone 1 have had 

 the opportunity of examining, prevents my describing those parts more exactly. 



It appears that (he credit of first introducing this noble plant from the Brawls is due to J. H. 

 Wanklyn, P-so... of Crumpsall House, near Manchester. It WIS first flowered by T. Brocklehurst, 

 Esq., of the Fence, ncur Macclesfield, to whom 1 am indebted for the drawing, by Mrs. Powell. Mr. 

 Thomas Appleby, the gardener at the Pence, informs me that he has cultivated it in n basket 

 suspended in the Orchidaceous house; but he thinks it will succeed better in a pot treated like a 



Muxillnrin or a Pcristcria. 



Fig. 1. represents the column and lip. after the surrounding parts have been cut away: 2. is a 

 pair of pollcn.masscs, with their caudicula aud gland, seen from Above : 3. is the same viewed from 

 below. 



