sport of Nature, or a permanent character, indicating a truly 
distinct species, 1 will not take upon me to say: the con- 
.Stancy of this mark in all the flowers would lead to the 
latter conclusion ; and I have dedicated the species to G. 
Waites, Esq., of Newcastle, a most enthusiastic lover and 
student of Natural History, and particularly of Horticulture 
and Botany. His collection of Orchideous plants is con- 
siderable, and the present individual is one of many that 
he has introduced from Honduras, through the kindness of 
G. U. Skinner, Esq. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs and leaves much resembling those 
of the well-known Caraserum tridentatum. Scapes radical, 
a foot or more tall, bearing a raceme of six to eight large, 
greenish-white flowers. These flowers, as seems to be com- 
mon to the Genus, have the ovaries straight, that is, not 
twisted ; so that the /abellum is uppermost. The sepals and 
petals connive and point downwards, and are tipped with 
yellow-brown. Lip conico-cucullate, green, brownish at 
the edge, the mouth contracted, quite entire and involute : 
there are two very short lobes at the base which are a little 
fringed. Column large, green, with two long and strong, 
deflexed sete. Anther-case depressed, with an umbo, and a 
spreading scale partly concealing the umbo. 
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column, 3. Anther-case. 4. Pollen-masses: more or 
less magnified. 
