illustrious Orchid* remarks thai it belongs to I 



same section as M. but may be 



immediately recognized by it 



The specimen figured was presented to the B 

 Gardens by a very liberal contributor, Mr. F. Sander, of 

 St. Albans. It flowered in September of last year. 



Dbscb. Tufted. / bur to five inches long, sessile, 



very coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute or subacute, deeply 

 grooved down the middle in front, obtusely keeled down 

 the back, pale green, nerves obscure ; basal sheaths two 

 or three, half an inch long, tubular, truncate, with an 

 acute apex on one side. > - long as the leaf, pendu- 



lous, slender, one-flowered, very dark green, with five or 

 six green appressed tubular sheaths separated by spaces 

 long as themselves; bract linear-oblong, greenish, streaked 

 with purple. Flowers two to two and a half inches broad 

 across the sepals, vertical with the lip uppermost. SepaU 

 spreading horizontally, green spotted and sprinkled with 

 dark purple, all broadly ovate, suddenly contracted into 

 filiform tails as long as the limb ; dorsal nearly free 

 rather the longest and narrowest with the tip of the t;iil 

 straight, lateral connate to beyond the middle, and with 

 the tails incurved or involute at the tip. Petals very 

 small, adnate to the base of the column and parallel to it, 

 but shorter, consisting of a golden yellow two-edged 

 column terminated by a dilated thickened dark-purple 

 shining hood. Lip jointed on the short foot of the column, 

 rose-red ; claw sigmoid, deeply grooved, with tw r o lamella 

 in the groove ; limb much shorter than the sepals, reniform, 

 concave, with incurved entire margins, disk with many 

 radiating forked bright-red raised nerves. Column incurved, 

 margins above slightly dilated but hardly winged. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Top of ovary, petals, lip and column ; 2, petals, foot of column and 

 column ; 3, lip ; 4, column ; 5, anther ; t>, pollen-masses : — all enlarged. 



