near the Bay of Choco. The specimen here figured flowered 
at Messrs. Veitch’s establishment in January, 1874. It is said 
to flower perennially and profusely, a statement inconsistent 
with the habits of any plants in continuous health, but 
which, if taken with the caution to be used in accepting the 
laudatory advertisements of choice plants, may be regarded 
as evidence of its being a very free flowerer. 
Descr. Quite glabrous. Leaves two feet long and up- 
wards, nearly two inches broad, strap-shaped, narrowed into 
a point, keeled, deep green above, pale beneath. Scape 
sometimes three feet high, strict, green, many-flowered, 
sheaths appressed. racts three inches long, green, strict, 
erecto-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, compressed, rather 
exceeding the ovary. lowers very large, five inches long 
from the tip of the dorsal sepal to that of the combined 
lateral ones, and seven inches broad across the petals. Dorsal 
sepal ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, waved, yellowish-green, 
with a suffused rose-purple border; two lateral sepals com- 
bined into an ovate-oblong, obtuse, flesh-coloured, concave 
limb. Petals narrowly linear-lanceolate, horizontal, with 
bright red-purple border and tip. zp three inches long; 
saccate portion green, half the length of the whole, with 
auricled sides and truncate mouth ; edges of lip above the 
sac inflexed, with flat, dirty yellow surfaces speckled with pale 
red. Staminodes triangular-cordate, with red-purple villous 
margins.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lateral, and 2, side view of staminode :—magnified, 
