(Bot. Reg. vol. xxiv. t. 68) is undoubtedly very nearly allied, 
“our plant differing however in the broader leaves,” (scarcely 
as far as our specimens are concerned), “larger flowers, no ele- 
vated plate at the base of the stigma, and the smooth spurs of 
the lip.” Our plant, which flowered in the stove in the Royal 
Gardens in December, 1856, was received from Mr. Linden, who 
collected the plant in the neighbourhood of Merida, Columbia. 
Dzscr. Pseudobulés smooth, oblong, clustered, more or less 
sheathed with scales. Leaf solitary from the apex of the pseudo- 
bulb, lanceolate, scarcely falcate, with an oblique twist, the apex 
acute. Scape from the base of the leaf, a span or more long, 
red, filiform, pendent (in our plant), bracteated at rather distant 
intervals with small, brown, appressed, and slightly sheathing 
scales, bearing a raceme of from four to six remote flowers, of a 
rich purple-red, almost crimson colour. Jntermediate sepal and 
the petals free, concave; two /ateral sepals combined into one, 
and placed under the labellum and spurred. Zip free, broad- 
obcordate, with an elevation in the claw (but not two lamelle), 
at the base having two spurs which are lodged within the spur 
of the sepals, very much as the two spurs of the anthers in Viola 
are lodged with the spur of the petal, subulate, not ciliated. 
Column free. Stigma large, destitute of any plate at its base. 
Anther-case hemispherical. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and labellum with its two spurs. 8. Column: 
—magnified, ; 
