whose judicious care, so many rarities, both of Mr. Garp- 
ner and of other Collectors, have been brought to a high 
state of perfection. Among the dried specimens there is 
only one of this species, and that is marked “ very rare : 
only one plant was found ;”’ and that is numbered 442 of 
the Organ Mountains’ Collection. In the stoveat Woburn 
the specimen here represented blossomed in October, 1838. 
As a species, it comes near Oncip1um crispum, Bot. Mag. t. 
3499, but the panicle is much larger, bearing more copious 
flowers; these flowers are very differently coloured and 
marked: the crest and side-lobes, and still more the column, 
present also amply sufficient characters of distinction, the 
latter being considerably smaller, with very short, angled, 
by no means serrated, wings. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs small for the size of the plant, ob- 
long, compressed, sulcated, producing a solitary, lanceolate, 
coriaceous, rather acute, dark green leaf. Scape from the 
base of the pseudo-bulb, a foot or more high, and bearing 
a large, very handsome panicle of numerous flowers. Sepals 
obovate, small, somewhat clawed, recurvo-patent, waved : 
petals twice their size, patent, obovato-rotundate, shortly 
clawed, waved: they and the sepals are of a rich, glossy, 
reddish-brown colour, spotted, chiefly round the margin, 
with yellow ;—the sepals are somewhat banded with the 
same colour; behind theyare greenish. Lip, in colour resem- 
bling the petals, three-lobed ; the disk at the base crested 
with unequal-sized tubercles, yellow, spotted with brown ; 
the two side-lobes very small, oblong, the intermediate lobe 
large and fan-shaped. Column small and short, with two 
comparatively narrow and angled wings. Anther-case 
hemispherical, containing two small cells. Pollen-masses 
yellow, stalked, and bearing a small, oblong gland or cau- 
diculus. 
Fig. 1. Column and lower portion of the Labellum. 2. Inside view of 
the Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
