Brazils. It was first flowered by Mr. Brocklehurst, of the 

 Fence, Macclesfield, after whom it is called. The Generic 

 name was given, it appears, to a nearly allied, if not 

 the same, species, by M. A. Brongniart; in honour of 

 M. Houllet, a French gardener, who introduced the 

 original species to the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, from the 

 Corcovado of Brazil. A second kind is H. vittata, Bot. Reg. 

 1841, t. 69. which seems almost too near Maxillaria. 



The individual, represented here,, bloomed at the Nursery 

 of Mr. Veitch, in April, 1843; but a much finer flowering 

 specimen appeared in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew 

 in November of the same year. 



Descr. Pseudo-bulb rather small for the size of the 

 plant, ovate, deeply furrowed, and more or less clothed 

 with large, lacerated scales ; upon the top of this bulb is, as 

 it were, articulated, a large, plaited, broadly-lanceolate, 

 membranaceous leaf, borne on a long, cylindrical footstalk. 

 Peduncle from the base of the bulb, two feet and more 

 high, including the inflorescence, which forms a spike or 

 raceme of six to eight large, handsome blossoms. Petals 

 and sepals nearly uniform, elliptic-ovate, fulvous, spotted all 

 over without, and within, paler on the outside. Lip of a 

 singular form, having a narrow, and rather saccate base, 

 with two long, subulate horns, directed upwards towards 

 the column, and which may be considered two lateral lobes ; 

 while the intermediate, or terminal lobe, is triangular or 

 trowel-shaped, acute at the apex, the two lower angles 

 ending each in a soft, short spur. The color of the lip is 

 variable, yellow spotted with deep purple, sometimes the 

 terminal lobe is almost wholly purple. Column elongated, 

 semi-terete, curved forward, yellow spotted with brown or 

 purple. Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses as in 

 Maxillaria. 



Fig. 1. Column and Lip ; nat. size. 2. Apex of the Column, with the 

 Anther-case thrown back to show the position of the Pollen-masses. 3. 

 Pollen-masses : — magnified. 



