an intermediate orchid house with a minimum night 
temperature of 55° F., and flowered for the first time in 
July 1905. Flowers and photographs submitted to Kew 
indicated that the plant was new to science, but fuller 
material was desirable. With some of the Acinetas the act 
of flowering, at least when under cultivation, has an 
exhausting effect. This species has been no exception to 
this rule, and it was not until July 1909 that it flowered 
again. From the material then supplied our figure anda 
diagnosis of the species have been prepared. Though 
smaller than most of the known species, and though some- 
what less vigorous than these in growth, A. MJoorei does 
not deserve to be spoken of as delicate. It thrives well 
under the conditions already mentioned, but requires rest 
when a season’s growth is finished, 
Descriprion.—/ferb ; epiphytic ; pseudobulbs clustered, 
ovoid-oblong, stout, sulcate, 3-4 in. long, 3-phyllous. 
Leaves petioled, lanceolate - oblong, shortly acuminate, 
plicate, almost leathery, 12-16 in. long, 2-24 in. wide. 
Scapes pendulous, many-flowered, about a foot in length, 
clothed with wide tubular sheaths; bracts spreading; 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, very concave, 3-2 in. long; pedicels — 
13-2 in. long, scabrid or closely beset with black papillae. — 
Flowers showy, subglobose, straw-coloured, closely punctu- — 
late with brown spots. Sepals: posterior suborbicular, 
obtuse, very concave, 11-14 in. long; lateral widely au 
obliquely ovate-orbicular, obtuse, concave, 11-14 in. long: 
Petals wide elliptic, obtuse, slightly concave, 14 in. long: 
Lip firmly fleshy, continuous with the base of the column, — 
3-lobed, 1§ in. long ; claw wide, concave, 3 in. long; lateral — 
lobes obliquely reniform, truncate, 2 in. long, mid-lobe — 
oblong, narrowed and somewhat blunt at the tip, concave — 
5 In. long; disk thickly callose-appendiculate, the swelling — 
wide oblong, slightly 2-lobed at apex and base. Column — 
clavate, 3 in, long, slightly pubescent at the base, widely 
winged at the apex; pollinia 2, waxy, oblong-pyrifor™ — 
adnate to a dilated eland. i 
Fig. 1, lip with one side-l inaxinm, 
aE: 4, wit side-lobe removed; 2, column; 3 and 4, pollinarium, — 
scen fiom behind and in front: 5, w iant, fr ‘phe ph, the scape — 
supported : -1-4 enlarged, 5 shi bg a ee j 
