8000 feet. Mr. Rucker was the first to flower it, and in- 
deed was almost its sole possessor, until some recent impor- 
tations made the plant more plentiful. Mr. Fitch’s figure 
was obtained from a plant exhibited, in beautiful condition, 
by Messrs. Veitch at one of the Tuesday meetings of the 
Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington in June 
last. It has also flowered at Knypersley, where, although 
the flowers themselves were larger, the flower-stems were 
much shorter than those of Messrs. Veitch’s specimen ; those 
in Reichenbach’s figure are twice the length of either. I 
have also observed considerable variations in the form of the 
lip and of the sepals and petals, especially as regards the re- 
lative size of the two last. 
H. cerina grows slowly, but is easily managed in any house 
that suits the Trichopilias, many species of which are found 
in the same district with itself. Its flowers are of very long 
duration. 
Descr. A bulbless epiphyte, producing tufts of four or 
five cuneate-oblong sharp-pointed leaves, which are about a 
foot long. Peduneles one-flowered, from two to six inches 
long, coming up at the base of the leaves, very strong. 
Sepals and petals generally nearly equal, the latter more or 
less unguiculate, an inch and a half long, nearly round, 
concave, fleshy, of a pale straw-colour. . Lip yellow, ungui- 
culate, puckered, ovate, convex, retused, bearing at the foot 
of its disk a very thick semicircular ruff, composed of ‘nu- 
merous plaits and folds. Colwmn sometimes with a violet 
or brown blotch near its base, clavate, but with no expansion 
or hood over the anther.—J. B. 
Fig. 1. Lip, spread out flat. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
