The specimen here represented was sent by Sir George 
MacLeay irom his rich collection at Pendell Court, 
where it flowered in October of last year; and is a cutting 
from the original plant imported by Mr. Cooper. There 
is a Specimen of it in the Royal Gardens, where it has not, 
flowered as yet. 
Descr. Stem as thick as the thumb, terete; branches 
erect, pubescent, pale green, four to eight inches long 
by one to nearly two broad, four-angled, obtuse ; angles 
compressed, rather acute, with small erect teeth, sides 
between the angles shallowly concave. Pedicels very 
stout, about one inch long, tomentose. Calyzx-lobes ovate- 
lanceolate, tomentose. Corolla twelve to fourteen inches 
broad, closely covered with erect soft hyaline hairs that 
are red brown over the whole surface of the corolla, but 
white and transparent on the margins of the segments, 
under surface yellowish mottled with green, upper dull 
yellowish with close-set short narrow undulate red-brown 
bars; central area three to three and a half inches in 
diameter, concave, margins rounded; segments ovate- 
lanceolate, gradually tapering into long points. Corona 
small, very dark red-purple; outer of five panduriformly- 
oblong spreading scales three-lobed at the top, the side 
lobes short rounded, the midlobe produced into a short 
spur; inner corona of five erect spiniform processes, 
as permis at the back into a quite entire obtuse wing. 
Fig. 1, Corona; 2, scale of outer corona; 3, segment of inner corona ; 4 
and 5, pollinia with their corpuscles :—all enlarged. 
