the error of considering it a native of Trinidad, and com- 
municated by Sir Ratpa Wooprorp to the Royal Gardens 
of Kew. It is, like all its congeners, of Indian origin, and 
our present drawing was made from one of the many fine 
plants sent to Kew by Dr. Waxticn, and which flowers more 
or less copiously all winter through. It would be included 
in Breria of Brown and other authors; but it differs from 
the true Bueriaz in having a spur to the lip, and that lip 
connate with the base of the column, not articulated upon it. 
Like some other yellow-flowered plants, (the PRimuLACEE 
for example) the bractea and flowers become of a deep 
verdigris green in decay. Another circumstance worthy 
of remark is, if the flowers, or indeed any part of the | 
plant, be chewed in the mouth, no taste whatever is per- 
ceived, nor any effect observed, till after the lapse of several 
minutes; when a very sensible and pungent heat is pro- 
duced upon the tongue and lips, similar to that experienced 
after chewing the acrid leaves of some of the AromDEz. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovato-rotundate, as large as one’s 
fist, clustered ; and bearing leafy stems, clothed with the 
sheathing bases of the leaves. Leaves three to four, 
broadly-lanceolate, membranaceous, striated and plicated, 
dark, glossy green, with numerous scattered whitish spots, 
paler beneath. Scape radical, two or more feet high, 
terete, glabrous, jointed, and bearing at the joints sheath- 
ing scales. Flowers in a large terminal raceme, of a pale 
but rather bright yellow, destitute of scent. Bracteas 
membranous, as long as the germen, withering and becom- 
ing black-green, while the flowers are still in perfection. 
Sepals and petals erecto-patent, obtuse, slightly concave ; 
the former tipped with green. Lip erect, the apex 
recurved ; the whole is rather longer than the perianth, 
very broad, but carinated, the sides turned up and involute, 
so as to include the column, three-lobed, the base running 
down into an obtuse spur nearly half the length of the 
gerinen ; the lobes orange, and giving the appearance of a 
crest from the waved and crenated margins. Column white, 
incurved, grooved in front, and hairy. Anther hemispher- 
ical. Pollen-masses eight. : 
bane Flower, from which the Sepals and Petals are removed. 2. Colamn 
ur. 3. Inside view of the Anther-case. 4. Pollen-masses +~all more 
or less magnified. 
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