was sent to me by John Gray, Esq., of Greenock, a highly 

 successful cultivator of plants, and no less liberal than suc- 

 cessful. He possesses many advantages in the importation 

 of plants, by his great mercantile connections abroad, and 

 loses no opportunity of introducing such as are most worthy 

 of notice. The present he received from Sierra Leone, 

 and though not a very showy plant, the beautiful structure 

 of the flowers, and the rich blood-coloured tuft of hair on 

 the elongated lip, entitle it to a place in every tropical 

 Orchideous collection. 



Descr. Pseudo-bulbs small, ovate, angled and furrowed, 

 more or less sheathed with scales, each bearing a solitary, ob- 

 long, coriaceous leaf, about four to five inches long, at the 

 extremity . Scape a foot or more long, from the base of a 

 pseudo-bulb, articulated, and partially sheathed with scales. 

 Spike elongated, crowded, many-flowered, each flower sub- 

 tended by a broad, acute bractea. Sepals spreading, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, tawny. Petals very minute, subulate, 

 appressed, one on each side to the column. Lip three- 

 lobed sessile and moveable, saccate at the base ; the lateral 

 lobes small, rounded, erect, ciliated, applied to the base of 

 the column, the middle one very much elongated, linear- 

 lanceolate, patent, or a little pendent, deep blood-coloured, 

 ciliated at the margin below, with short hairs, and towards 

 the apex fringed with very long blood-coloured ones. 

 Column short, semiterete, with two short, erect, subulate 

 horns from the apex, longer than the anther. Anther-case 

 helmet-shaped, crested, two-celled ; Pollen-masses of two 

 oval lobes, yellow. 



Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. The same in a different position. 3. An- 

 ther-case. 4,5. Pollen-masses:— magnified. 



