some slight discrepancies from the plant of Dr. Linptey, the 
scapes being much shorter (thus not having the Trigoni- 
pium-like habit with which Dr. LinpLey compares it), and 
the sheaths of the scape, especially the upper one, are 
much less inflated, so that it scarcely deserves the name of 
“ cucullata,” given on account of the hooded appearance 
of the upper sheath, or bractea, just beneath the flower. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs tufted, oblong-ovate, compressed, 
smooth, partially surrounded by jagged membranes, termi- 
nated by a single, linear-oblong, coriaceous, dark green 
leaf. Scapes radical, in our specimens, about four inches 
long, terete, one-flowered, jointed, and clothed at the joints 
with membranous, greenish sheaths, cleft on one side about 
half-way down, the uppermost one, or bractea, is larger, 
more inflated, and includes the base of the flower. Peri- 
anth of a greenish-chocolate colour. Sepals oblongo-lance- 
olate, very acute, spreading. Petals of nearly the same 
shape, but smaller than they, and less green, connivent 
over the column. Lip jointed on the base of the decurrent 
column, where it forms a kind of blunt spur, recurved, ob- 
Jong, three-lobed, dark chocolate colour: the side-lobes 
small, the middle-lobe elongated : at the base of the lip, on 
the disk, is a spathulate, fleshy excrescence.s Column flat- 
tened. Anther-case hemispherical. | 
Fig. 1. Flower, with the Sepals removed, 2 Column. 3. 4. Pollen- 
masses :—magnified. 
