frequently proves too warm and too moist for many of the 

 Orchids from the higher portions of the Organ Mountains, 

 whence not a few of the most popular species have come 

 to us. 



Descr. A caulescent plant with erect rigid stems, two feet 

 or more high, thickly clothed in their upper portion with 

 stiff distichous lanceolate sharp-pointed leaves, which are not 

 quite so long as the dense nodding peduncle, which issues 

 from what is usually a twofold keeled herbaceous spathe, 

 the latter not quite so long as the leaves. Baceme many- 

 flowered. Flowers coriaceous, of a dull yellowish-brown, 

 with the exception of the lip, which is bright rose. Sepals 

 oval-lanceolate, acute. Petals narrower than the sepals, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute. Lip large, fully as broad as the 

 column is long, divided into three unequal portions, of which 

 those at the side are plane, subrotund, and rather wedge- 

 shaped, while the central one is much smaller, kidney- 

 shaped, and deeply emarginate ; the disk of the lip is tra- 

 versed by a raised line, and has at its base two oblong calli. 

 Column somewhat bluntly toothed. — /, B. 



Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen in front. 2. Pollen-masses : — magnified. 



