named being avery shy, and the latter a very free flowerer. 
The figure of a flower of O. coronariwm in the “ Manual” 
exactly corresponds to that of our plant, except in being 
rather smaller, and having a longer column. It should be 
borne in mind that O. brevifoliwm had not flowered in 
Europe when the ‘‘ Manual” appeared, and that the size 
of its flowers was presumably taken from the original 
Herbarium specimens of Hartweg. How the name 
miniatum, Hort., arose is unknown, it would imply that 
the flowers were vermilion coloured or scarlet. 
O. brevifolium was introduced by Linden, under the 
name of O. Candelabrum. For the loan of the magnificent 
‘specimen here figured I am indebted to Sir Trevor Law- 
rence, bt., M.P., in whose unique collection it flowered in 
April of this year. : 
_ Descr.—Rootstock prostrate, almost as thick as a swans © 
quill, clothed with distichous, imbricating, brown, ovate, 
acuminate, imbricating scales an inch long. Pseudobulbs 
two inches long, rather crowded, ovate-oblong, compressed, 
With acute margins, smooth, green. Leaf solitary, six 
inches long by three broad, ovate-oblong, tip retuse, base 
contracted into a very stout, short, channelled petiole, 
thickly coriaceous, lurid green and shining above, paler 
beneath. Pedwnele stout, green, with a few ovate or lan- 
ceolate, scarious, red brown sheaths an inch long. Raceme 
a foot long, inclined or drooping, many-fld., rhachis green 5 
bracts like the sheaths on the peduncle; pedicels with 
ovary two inches long. Flowers orbicular in outline, two 
to two and a half inches broad. Sepals and petals sub- 
similar, nearly orbicular, shortly clawed, bright reddish- 
chestnut coloured, with narrow crisped golden margins. 
Lip shorter than the sepals, clawed, limb broadly obovate 
or obcordate, golden-yellow; claw with two short basal 
wings, and a complicate lobed callus between them. 
Column very short, red-brown, two-winged.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2. side vic fb : 3 anther; 
4and 5, pollinia :-— All enlarged. ew of base of lip and column; 3, 
