M. Lindeni was flowered at the Glasnevin Gardens by 
Dr. Moore, F.L.S., who obligingly transmitted it for figuring, 
in June of the present year. It was supposed to have been 
received by him amongst a batch of Central American 
Orchids, collected by Roezel; but André states that it was 
introduced by G. Wallis from New Grenada in 1869. 
Duscr. Stems tufted. Leaves six to ten inches long ; 
petiole three to four inches long, stout, deeply grooved in 
front with a single long basal sheath; blade nerveless or ob- 
scurely nerved, narrow, obovate, retuse, narrowed and acutely 
channelled at the base, very dark green, thickly coriaceous, 
keeled at the back. Scape one foot long and upwards, 
flexuous, with three or four distant appressed sheaths an 
inch long, green variegated with dull red; upper sheath or 
bract distant from the flower. Flower three inches long. 
Ovary short, straight, deeply grooved. Perianth blood-red ; 
sepals connate below into a decurved yellow tube, which is 
rounded and hardly gibbous at the base; dorsal sepal very 
long, almost filiform from a triangular base, recurved, sub- 
erect, flexuous ; lateral sepals connate to below the middle, 
deflexed, semi-ovate, tapering to the acute approximate tips. 
Petals linear-oblong, retuse, auricled in front at the base. 
Lip linguiform, nearly as long as the column, base cordate. 
— Column not winged, quite entire—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the sepals removed; 2, column and lip; 3, column; 
4, lip :—all magnified. 
