" Linclema " represents a very poorly developed state of the 

 plant, but except that the leaves are shorter and flowers 

 a third larger, it accords in development with that here 

 given, and with the Herbarium specimens. In both the 

 raceme has only commenced flowering, for as flowering 

 advances the raceme lengthens, and the lower part from 

 which the flowers have fallen is clothed with the persistent 

 deflexed imbricating bracts. 



The specimen here figured was purchased in 1887 in 

 Messrs. Protheroe and Morris' auction room. Mr. Watson 

 informs me that it is the strongest and best grower of all 

 the cultivated species of Spathoglottis. It flowered in the 

 tropical Orchid House at Kew in September of last year. 



Desce. Pseudo-bulbs two inches long, ovoid, at length 

 nearly naked. Leaves one to two feet long, by two to 

 two and a half broad, sessile, spreading and recurved, 

 elongate-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, closely costate 

 and plicate. Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb, twelve 

 to eighteen inches high, robust, terete, with three or four 

 distant short appressed subacute herbaceous sheaths. 

 Raceme at first corymbiform, lengthening to six inches ; 

 bracts one inch long, herbaceous, broadly ovate, subacute, 

 concave ; pedicels and ovary half to one and a half inches 

 long, puberulous. Perianth two inches in diameter. Sepals 

 and petals very pale lilac or nearly white, ovate-oblong, 

 subacute. Lip about as long as the sepals ; lateral lobes 

 small, erect and incurved, subtruncate, orange-brown, with 

 two large tumid orange calli speckled with red occupying 

 the disk between them, and each callus produced at the 

 base into a short spreading lobule ; midlobe small, lilac, 

 on a long slender stipes variable in form from trapeziform 

 with rounded sides and an obtuse or acute tip, to very broadly 

 obcordate. Column slender, incurved. Pollinia eight, with 

 slender caudicles. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower with the sepala and petals removed; 2, column; 3, anther; 



-i and 5, poll mil : — all enlarged. 



