to Mr. HE. 8. Rand, by whom a fine specimen was sent 
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1894, which flowered in 
March of the present year. The species had previously 
flowered (in 1892) in the collection of M. Robinow, 
Esq., of Hawthornden, Didsbury. Our figure is of the 
male plant; the female, which (as with its congeners) no 
doubt differs greatly in its flowers, is as yet undiscovered. 
Deser.—Pseudobulbs two to four inches long, elon- 
gate ovoid, deeply grooved, pale grey from the persistent 
appressed leaf-sheaths. Leaves six to twelve inches long, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green; nerves proml- 
nent beneath. Scape with raceme six inches long, ascend- 
ing, green, with few lanceolate acuminate bracts, about 8- 
fid. ; floral bracts like the cauline, green. Flowers drooping, 
about one and a half inches long and broad (across the 
petals). Sepals and petals subsimilar, acute, pale, dark 
yellowish-green or brown; dorsal sepal erect, lateral at 
length reflexed ; petals erect, as long as the dorsal sepal. 
Lip large, galeate, nearly globose, fleshy, dark green, 
suffused with red posteriorly, three-lobed ; lateral lobes 
rounded, incurved, erose; midlobe small, triangular, re- 
curved or revolute; base of lip within with many narrow 
parallel yellow bands. Column stout, beaked, green with 
a transverse red band; antenne filiform, deflexed; anther 
beaked.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, Column viewed laterally, and 2, in front; 3, anther; 4 and 
5, pollinia with strap and gland alae? iesoéa. in front; », an ; 
