for some years. The flowers figured are males, the 
females being unknown, though two flowers appeared in 
the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,in November, 
1894, which were intermediate in structure, being mostly 
male, but having the saccate lip of the female. 
The plant figured was purchased in 1894. It flowered 
in a tropical house at Kew in early winter; but it is not 
quite constant in its period of flowering. 
Descr.—A tufted epiphyte about a foot high. Bulbs 
fusiform-oblong, four to six inches long, clothed with the 
persistent leaf-sheaths. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, plicate, three- to five-nerved, six to nine inches 
long, light green. Scape axillary from near the base of 
the bulb, a foot or more long ; raceme lax, many-flowered. 
Bracts oblong, acute, somewhat concave, four to eight lines 
long. Pedicels one to two inches long. lowers about 
four inches across, light green, heavily blotched with red- 
brown on the sepals and petals, the lip brown and green 
with a white area round the mouth of the sac. Sepals 
spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, about two 
inches long, lateral pair somewhat faleate. Petals similar 
to the sepals and parallel to the dorsal, forming a narrow 
hood over the column. Lip strongly three-lobed ; lobes 
reflexed; front lobe broadly ovate-oblong or nearly 
orbicular, apiculate, nearly half an inch long; margin 
deeply fimbriate; side lobes rounded, shorter than the 
front lobe, deeply fimbriate; sac broad and obtuse, the 
mouth transversely oblong, somewhat constricted in the 
middle. Column clavate, over an inch long, bearing a 
long, slender, curved appendage at the summit; rostellar 
arms long and slender, one curved forward over the mouth 
of the spur, the other descending by the side of the 
column ; anther-case bearing a long, slender appendage at 
the apex.—R. A. Rone, 
Figs. 1 and 2, front and back view of lip; 3, anther case; 4 and 5, pollinia, | 
with the stipes and gland, seen from front and back :—alZ magnified. 
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