jecture is open to question ; but in any case it is remarkable 
that so striking a plant has not subsequently been met 
with. 
Chlorea virescens, Lindl., originally appeared in cul- 
tivation in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, in 1845, when 
it was exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, 
and figured in the ‘‘ Botanical Register,’ but soon appears 
to have been lost sight of. It was recently re-introduced 
by H. G. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S., of Colesborne, Gloucester- 
shire, who met with it on sandy flats near Coronel, on the 
railway from Concepcion, Chili, in December, 1901, and 
who sent plants to Kew, which flowered in a greenhouse, _ 
in April, 1903, and on two or three subsequent occasions. F 
Descr,—A_ deciduous, terrestrial herb, a foot to a foot 
and a half high. Leaves tufted, suberect, or the lower 
spreading, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, three to six inches 
long, three-quarters to an inch broad. Scape erect, stout, 
bearing numerous acute, imbricating sheaths; raceme 
dense, four to six inches long. Bracts oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, three-quarters to an inch and a 
quarter long. Pedicels stout, about half an inch long. 
Flowers large, yellow, veined with green. Dorsal sepal 
erect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, about an inch long; iateral 
spreading, oblong, obtuse, about an inch long, thickened 
towards the apex or bearing there a few fleshy, green . 
tubercles. Petals erect, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, about 
three-quarters of an inch long. Lip recurved, 3-lobed, 
about three-quarters of an inch long, the veins of the upper 
surface bearing numerous falcate papillae; front lobe 
broadly elliptic, obtuse, crenulate; side lobes narrow and 
obtuse; dise with five keels near the base. Column 
clavate, about half an inch long; anther apiculate; 
pollinia oblong, channelled down the middle, granular,— 
R. A. Ronee. 
Fig. 1, lip, with one side lobe removed; 2, column; 3, pollinia:—all 
enlurged. 
