and where it is, this organ is decidedly short and thick. 
If Lueddemannia is to be kept generically separated from 
Acineta the characters must be drawn from the form of the — 
calli and side lobes of the lip, which in my opinion are only — 
sufficient for sectional purposes, when the habit and other — 
characters are the same. A. densa flowered simultaneously 
in the Glasnevin Botanical Gardens and at Kew, in October — 
of last year. The portion of a raceme here figured is from 
the former source, the foliage from the latter. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs tufted, three to four inches long, — 
narrowly ellipsoid or fusiform, smooth, sheathed at the — 
base. Leaves three to four on the pseudobulb, twelve to 
eighteen inches long by two to three inches broad, obian- 
eeolate, acute, bright green, plaited. Peduncle short, 
Stout, sheathed; raceme two to three feet long, very many 
and dense-fid., pendulous; rachis stout, green; bracts 
half an inch long, oblong, acute, pale brown, speckled ; 
pedicel with ovary an inch long, very stout; flowers pale — 
golden yellow, perianth connivent. Sepals nearly two — 
inches long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, fleshy, very concave. — 
Petals smaller, more obovate, concave, speckled with red 
round the edges, and with larger scattered pale spots over 
the surface. Lip very thick and fleshy, rather longer than 
the petals ; claw or hypochile broad, short, concave ; side 
_ lobes large, subreniform, erect, concave, narrowed at the — 
_ base, spotted like the petals; mid-lobe much smaller and 
shorter than the side lobes, very thick and fleshy, narrow, 
meurved with a rather dilated subquadrate concave tip, 
golden yellow with large prunella blotches towards the 
base; disk with a long saddle-like three-ridged callus 
between the side lobes, which has crenate truncate ends. 
Column long, stout, pubescent, with rounded wings above 
the middle ; anther small; pollinia pyriform ; strap linear, 
gland rather small._—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Lip and column seen laterally: 2 : er 4 
8, column 4, pollinia :—all Oa y; 2, the same viewed i 
