in 1831, and since that period many have been elsewhere 
described by him and other writers. The present was first 
known to us in the flowering state by Mr. Horsrati of 
Liverpool, who imported it from Jamaica, and it has since 
blossomed in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
having been sent there by Dr. M. Fapyen. 
Descr. Like the rest of the Genus, it is an Eprenyte, 
and produces a stem about a foot and a half high, simply 
rounded, thickened at the base, and there clothed with 
membranaceous, pale-brown sheaths. Leaves from the 
upper part of the stem, subdistichous, oblongo-ligulate, 
carinated, coriaceous, bright green, nerveless. From the 
summit of the stems proceeds a flower-stalk four to five 
inches long, compressed, bearing two or three large, with- 
ered, brown, lanceolate, carinated, striated bracteas, and a 
drooping, dense raceme, or almost capitulum of flowers. 
Sepals and petals spreading, obovato-oblong, almost. spa- 
thulate, rather acute, pale green, tinged with brown ; the 
latter smaller. Column clubshaped, green slightly tinged 
with purple, bearing, at the apex below, the broadly cordate, 
very convex, fleshy, three-lobed lip, green, its broad disk 
purple, having two tubercles at the base: the lateral lobes 
are rounded, the intermediate or terminal one deeply cut 
into two spreading lobes. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the Sepals are removed: magnified. 
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