species, collected in the Shire Highlands, Zambesia, by 
Mr. Buchanan, communicated from the Herbarium of the 
Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. The ZL. Sandersoni of 
Harvey is quite a different plant, and, as pointed out in the 
* Genera Plantarum,” referable to the genus Cymbidium, 
from wanting a spur. 
For plants of this majestic Orchid, the Royal Gardens 
are indebted to Mr. Lyle, of Natal, who gave them in 
1879. After making some growth, the roots were trans- 
ferred a few years ago to one of the beds in the Palm 
House, with a south exposure, where they flowered for the 
first time in June last. 
Descr. Rootstock stout, subterranean. Leaves three to four 
feet long by three to four inches broad, elongate-lanceolate, 
acute, plaited and many-nerved, narrowed into a long petiole, 
bright green. Scape six to seven feet high, robust, 
cylindric, with one or two sheathing bracts. Spike a 
foot long, erect; rachis stout ; flowers pretty close, two to 
two and a half inches in diameter; bracts one inch long 
and less, oblong, obtuse or acute, very coriaceous and 
concave, green with brownish edges. Sepals elliptic-oblong, 
narrowed at the base, incurved, dirty green with suffused 
brown edges and nerves, dorsal rather the largest. Petals 
very much larger than the sepals, obliquely falcately 
broadly oblong, obtuse, pure white. Lip large, contracted 
below into a short conoidal obtuse spur; side lobes large, 
rounded, erect and incurved, very concave, dark green 
with brownish veins; mid-lobe between square and 
rounded; limb pale violet with darker purple streaks; 
disk pale yellow-green, studded with long papille in three 
to five rows. Column large, arched, white; anther two- 
toothed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, portion of leaf; 3, section of leaf ; 
4, spike; 5, column and ovary; 6, anther; 7 and 8, pollen-masses and gland :—all 
but figs. 1, 2, and 4 enlarged. 
