(sepals, petals, lip, spur and column) almost identical ; 
and if Uncifera is to be kept up, it claims both these 
species. 
Further, the remarkable characters of the pollinia of 
Uncifera, of the very large gland, and the broad wings 
of the strap, which are recurved when dry, are repeated in 
S. Mooreanum, the only difference being that the pollen 
masses are raised on an incurved stipes on the face of the 
strap in Uncifera, and sessile in S. Mooreanum. 
S. Mooreanum was imported from New Guinea by 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, from whom both 
forms were obtained by the Royal Gardens, and which 
flowered in the Tropical Orchid House in January of this 
year. 
Descr.—Stem stout, short. Leaves four to six inches long, 
distichous, oblong, 2-lobed, coriaceous; margins recurved, 
bright green above, paler and mottled beneath. Scape as 
long as the leaves, stout, decurved, green or red-purple 
and speckled; sheaths two or three, distant, short, obtuse, 
brown, appressed; bracts small, lanceolate. Sypike two to 
three inches long, oblong or ovoid, very dense-fid. Flowers 
subglobose, rose-purple or greenish white, one-third of an 
inch in diameter. Sepals conniving, oblong, obtuse, con- 
cave. Petals conniving, obovate-oblong. Lip small, side 
lobes rounded erect; terminal lobe cymbiform, fleshy, 
subacute, thickened transversely at the base; spur longer 
than the sepals, clavate, dependent, without internal sep- 
tum, or dorsal scale below the column. Colwmn short, 
stout, produced in front into truncate arms, on which the 
gland of the pollinia rests. Anther helmet-shaped, with 
four bosses on the crown; strap of pollinia trapeziform at 
the apex, with the sides recurved, bearing two sessile 
pollen masses; gland very large, obtuse.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Front view of white fd. var. ; 
Le j ‘ 3, anther; 
4, pollinia, all from the same; 5, side view Be er eee 
f red-fld. var. :—AJl enlarged. 
