may now add Jamaica, where it was found by the late Dr. 
M‘Fadyen, and by him communicated to our Herbarium. It is 
at once distinguished by the copious black rigid hairs investing 
the stem and leaves and ovary and even the calyx. The bracts 
are remarkable for their purple colour, while the flowers are 
bright-yellow. Plants communicated by Mr. Van Houtte, flow-. 
ered with us in November, 1858, when our figure was taken 
Dr. Lindley has kindly given the above synonyms. 
Drscr. An epiphyte, attaching itself to the trunks and 
branches of trees in its native forests. Stem about a foot high, 
erect, slender, terete, about as thick as crow’s-quill, hispid, as is 
all the foliage, and more or less the bracts and calyx, with rigid, 
black, short, moderately patent hairs. Leaves distant, on long, 
sheathing bases, lanceolate, rigid, very long, and gradually and 
finely acuminate ; with two teeth below the spinulose apex, six 
to eight inches long, more than an inch wide, plicato-nervose, 
harsh and rigid, gradually smaller and more approximate up- 
wards, rather suddenly passing into coloured bracts. Spike 
elongato-capitate, very compact, formed of numerous, erecto- 
patent, purple, lanceolato-acuminate, imbricated, striated dracts, 
longer than the flowers. Flowers bright-yellow, with a short, 
purplish, inferior, twisted ovary. - Calyz of three ovato-lanceolate, 
suddenly acuminate, nearly erect sepals. Petals shorter than 
the lip, as are the oblong, obtuse, nearly erect petals. Lip large, 
erect, three-lobed : lateral lobes short, incurved; terminal one 
large, subrotund, deeply and beautifully fringed: the disc at the 
base white, furnished with two large glands, which correspond 
with two obtuse spurs or gibbosities on the under side of the base 
of the lip. Column shorter than the lip, erect, nearly terete, white. 
Anther dark-purple, sunk into the two-toothed clinandrium. -Pod- 
len-masses eight, in two series. 
Fig. 1. Apex of a leaf. 2. Flower and bract. 3. Labellum, seen from above. 
4. Column and anther, 5. Pollen-masses :—magnified, 
