have been previously figured in this work, namely, S._ 
denticulatum (Plate 4772), which is possibly not the plant 
first published under that name in Paxton’s Magazine 
(v. vil. t. 145), having a thickly fimbriate midlobe of the 
lip. 2, S. bigibbum (Plate 5767), a species with much 
shorter leaves, unspotted flowers and a fimbriate lip with 
a smooth disk that bears a two-lobed callus. 8. bellinum 
is much the largest flowered species of the section, if not 
of the genus; it was first sent from Burma by the collector 
Boxall, and is, as yet, only known as a cultivated plant. 
The specimen here figured was purchased at an auction in 
1884; it flowers yearly in early spring, and remains in 
this condition for a month or more. 
Descr. Stem three to four inches long, as thick as a 
swan’s quill. Leaves close set, distichous, four to eight 
inches long, lorate, deeply unequally bifid, channelled 
above, pale green. Pedunele short, stout, recurved, dark 
green speckled with brown. Flowers one to one and a 
quarter inches in diameter, corymbose; bracts short, oblong, 
obtuse, brown ; pedicel with ovary two-thirds of an inch 
long, stout. Perianth segments spreading and incurved, 
fleshy, obovate-oblong, obtuse, yellow, blotched with red- 
brown or purplish brown. Jip a hemispheric, yellowish, 
spotted fleshy sac with a truncate mouth, and a lunate 
white limb with a yellow spotted thickening at the very 
base, margin of limb erose, surface echinulate, the pro- 
cesses rising into long erect soft papille or spines at the 
base of the limb. Column very short and thick, rostellum 
short, recurved ; anther two-lobed ; pollinia globose, strap 
linear ; gland bifid—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Column and lip; 
: 2, . + 3 . ° eat th ¥3 
"4, pollinia all onlaegad. apex of column with pollinia in situ ; 3, anthe ; 
