and its splendid flowers last for two or three weeks." Our 

 figure was taken from a fine plant in the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, in the month of August, 1843. 



Descr. The stem, or pseudo-bulb, is six to eight inches 

 long, clavate, compressed, at first clothed with sheathing 

 scales, at length naked, compressed, sulcated, terminated 

 by two broadly-oblong, spreading, dark-green, coriaceous 

 leaves, four to five inches long. Peduncle terminal, from 

 between the two leaves, bearing four or five large, hand- 

 some, fragrant flowers, the base encased in a compressed 

 sheath, open at one edge. Sepals spreading, oblong, 

 rather acute, full rose-colour. Petals resembling them, 

 except that they are broader upwards, and almost obovate. 

 Lip remarkable for its deep purple-red colour, paler at the 

 edges of the side-lobes, and on the disk, where it becomes 

 yellowish, and is marked with elevated lines. The side- 

 lobes completely sheath and conceal the white column; the 

 intermediate, or terminal lobe is large, obcordate, undu- 

 lato-crenate at the edge. 



