warded me a description. Dr. Reichenbach further informs 
me, that he has native specimens gathered in 1845 by 
Mandon in the Province of Laruaja, near Sorata, at eleva- 
tions of 7-8000 feet. 
Descr. Stems tufted, about four feet high, slender, erect, 
or inclined, leafy, terete ; internodes one to two inches long. 
Leaves numerous, distichous, alternate ; sheath green, cylin- 
dric, three to four inches long; blade six to seven inches 
long, recurved, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled beneath, 
faintly nerved, deep green above, paler beneath. Peduncle 
shorter than the raceme, stout, terete, clothed with brown 
lax sheathing bracts, and as well as the rachis dark red- 
brown ; rachis stout, grooved, Panicle five to seven inches 
long by four broad, inclined, broadly ovoid, obtuse, dense- 
flowered. Flowers very numerous, horizontal; bracts small, 
subulate. Pedicel and ovary together one to one and a half 
inches long, slender and as well as the perianth dull red- 
purple. Perianth one inch in diameter. Sepals spreading 
horizontally, elliptic-lanceolate or rather broader upwards, 
acute. Petals as long, but narrower. Lip sessile at the end of 
the column, small, 3-lobed, lateral lobes quadrate with 
rounded angles, quite entire; midlobe smaller, quadrate, 
with an apiculus at the truncate apex; disk white with 
three tumid yellow calli. Column clavate, not winged.— 
Geter’ 
Fig. 1, Reduced view of plant; 2, portion of stem, and a panicle :—of the 
natural size ; 3, column and lip :—magnified. 
