flowers appear, of which there are three within a few inches 
of each other; in the native specimen in my Herbarium. 
Mr. Garpner found it on the Organ Mountains in April 
of last year, and always growing upou the stems of the 
Tree Ferns. It flowered readily in the stove of the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, in June, 1838, a few months after the 
plant was imported. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, furrowed: Leaves eight to 
ten inches in length, lanceolate, membranaceous, strongly 
nerved, attenuated at the base. Scapes longer than the 
leaves, each bearing six to eight large handsome flowers, 
with sheathing scales, which pass into bracteas that sheath 
the germen. Sepals and petals spreading, nearly equal, 
(the latter the narrowest,) ovato-oblong, acute, green with 
transverse, brown blotches. Lip. horizontal, purple, the 
two sidelobes erect. and united to'the remarkably large, 
deep, glossy. purple, notched, and horse-shoe-shaped callo- 
sity; the middle lobe roundish, waved, and obscurely lobed : 
the base of the lip below forms a blunt spur along with the 
decurrent base of the column; which latter is short and 
broad, incurved, purple. Anther-case transversely oblong, 
yellow, with a blunt point at the top. | 
Fig. 1. Lip and Column, side view. 2. Column and Anther; front view : 
—magnified. — Sine: 
