obtained from Antioquia and Medellin by Mr. Wallis and 
others. 
Drscr. A remarkably robust species. eaves, with the 
petiole, 5-7 inches long; blade, 1-14 inch in diameter; nar- 
rowly elliptic-oblong, with an obtuse recurved tip; 3-nerved, 
grooved down the centre above, with a strong midrib and two 
lateral nerves beneath ; base narrowed into the petiole, which 
is 2-3inches long. Pedunele a foot high, very stout, flexuous, 
sharply 3-4-angled ; bracts 1 inch long, obovate, complicate, 
compressed, apiculate. lower nearly a foot long, from the 
tip of the upper to that of either lateral sepal. Upper sepal 
small, § inch in diameter, orbicular, yellow with faint brown 
cloudings, suddenly contracted into a long reflexed yellow 
slender tail. Lateral sepals cuneate, with a deep boat-shaped, 
almost hemispheric chestnut-brown cup, 14 inch in length 
and 1 inch in diameter, with 5 ridges, which are green out- 
side, but deeper and wrinkled within; tips of the sepals 
cuneate at the base, then diverging, 5 inches long, yellow. 
Petals straight, broadly linear, 3-toothed at the tip, rather 
longer than the column. zp very small, red-brown, and 
speckled ; claw stout, straight, as long as the oblong, apiculate, 
toothed blade, at the base of which are two lobules.— 
J. D. H 
Fig. 1, Flower with a lateral sepal removed ; 2, column and petal ; 3, lip :— 
ah magnified, 
