and has since been found in the Cameroons, Lagos and 
adjacent territory. It was introduced into cultivation by 
Messrs. F, Sander & Co., who flowered it in March, 1892. 
The plant figured was sent to Kew in 1900 by Mr. J. H. 
Holland, then Curator of the Botanic Garden at Old 
Calabar. It flowers annually in the Tropical Orchid 
House. 
Descr.—A stout, erect epiphyte, one to two feet high, 
bearing stoutish roots towards the base. Stems somewhat 
compressed. Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, obliquely 
bilobed and obtuse, cuneate towards the base, five to eight 
inches long by one and a half to two inches broad, 
coriaceous and dark green. Racemes erect, six to twelve 
inches long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, 
cucullate, three to four lines long. Pedicels six to nine 
lines long. Flowers yellowish white; upper part of spur 
ochreous, base light green. Sepals strongly recurved, 
very acuminate from a broad base, five to six lines long. 
Petals rather smaller than the sepals, but otherwise similar. 
Lip broadly ovate, cucullate at the base, thence acuminate, 
recurved, four to five lines long; spur erect, stout, more 
or less curved, one and a half to two inches long. Column 
very stout, about a line long, with an acuminate, curved 
beak; stipites of pollinarium two, slender, attached to 
a linear-oblong gland, apex recurved, apiculate.—R. A. 
Rotre, | 
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Fig. 1, column; 2, anther case; 3, pollinarium: 4, entire plant:—1, 2 and 
3 much enlarged; 4 much reduced, poihnarium; 4, entire p ’ 
