adds that these bags may be regarded as show-rooms for 
insects which can carry away those bodies (the pollen) 
strongly glued to them by their viscid glands. For a 
complete account of the structure and formation of the 
lip and pollen apparatus of Mormodes I must refer to Mr. 
Darwin’s work on “ The Fertilization of Orchids” (p. 208), 
where it is shown how perfectly all the parts are contrived 
and arranged to cause the pollen to alight on an insect 
visiting the flower, and to be thence carried to other flowers 
in a position to secure their fertilization. 
M. Ocane was discovered by the collector Schlim in the 
province of Ocafia, at elevations of 4000 to 5000 feet, and 
subsequently collected by M. Kalbreyer. The specimen here 
figured was cultivated by Messrs. Veitch, with whom it | 
flowered magnificently in October, 1879. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs elliptic-oblong, slightly compressed, 
three to three and a half inches long, almost clothed with 
the appressed sheathing membranous leaf-bases. Leaves 
about a foot long by one and a half inches broad, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate. Scape very robust, with the raceme 
about a foot long, inclined, pale greenish-brown ; sheaths 
short, broad, loose, truncate. Raceme six to ten-flowered ; 
bracts half an inch long, oblong, obtuse, boat-shaped. 
Flowers subfascicled, about two inches in diameter and 
three when spread out, uniformly of a dark orange-yellow 
colour most closely speckled with red-brown spots. Sepals 
and petals similar, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, drooping. 
Inp as long as the petals, claw long; blade three-lobed, 
lateral lobes short oblong rounded at the tip, mid-lobe 
subquadrate abruptly beaked; all the lobes have incurved 
margins.—J. D. H. 2 
Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, pollen apparatus; 3, column; 4, anther-case:—al/ 
enlarged. 
