think, rightly followed the suggestion of making it a So- 
pHRonitis. The credit of introducing the plant alive to 
this country is due to Mr. Garpner, who found it in the 
Organ Mountains of Brazil and sent it home in 1837. 
The station given by M. Descouruirz is upon the high 
mountains that separate the district of Bananal from that 
of Ilha Grande. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, oblong, rounded, the 
young ones clothed with cylindrical membranaceous sheaths, 
of which the upper one forms a kind of spatha to the base 
of the flower-stalk : the base of the bulb throws out a few 
greenish-white roots, the upper portion bears a solitary ellip- 
tical leaf, about two inches long. Flower, of which the 
narrow ovary tapers into a short peduncle, solitary ; blossom 
large and very handsome, internally of an uniform red colour 
inclining to orange, with darker red streaks. Sepals and 
petals spreading horizontally and nearly flat: the former 
oblong-lanceolate, much smaller than the latter, which are 
elliptico-rotundate, slightly waved. Lip small, standing 
forward, ovate, the base yellow, three-lobed, obscurely 
bitubercled at the base: the two broad side-lobes involute so 
as to cover the column, the middle lobe acuminate, nearly 
flat. Column short, white, tinged with red, having a tooth 
or wing on each side the stigma. Anther with eight cells 
and eight almost triangular pollen-masses. 
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Inside view of ditto. 3. Side view of the Column. 4. 
Front view of ditto. 5. Anther-case showing the Cells. 6. Pollen-masses : 
—magnified. 
