Garden, Glasnevin, has flowered annually under green- 
house treatment, being suspended in its natural position. 
~Deser.—A tufted, epiphytic, pendulous herb. Bulbs 
ovoid-orbicular, somewhat compressed and _ obscurely 
angled, about an inch and a half long, diphyllous. Leaves 
pendulous, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at the base, 
glaucous, about half to a foot long, an inch to an inch and 
a half broad. Scapes produced from the base of the bulbs, 
pendulous, with a spathaceous sheath about the middle, 
three to five inches long. Dracts spathaceous, broadly 
elliptic-oblong, apiculate, glaucous, over three-quarters of 
an inch long. flowers pale green. Dorsal sepal lanceo- 
late-oblong, subobtuse, about two inches long, by nearly 
three-quarters of an inch broad; lateral sepals oblong, 
subobtuse, as long as the dorsal and slightly broader. 
Petals oblong, subobtuse, rather shorter and narrower 
than the sepals. Jip about an inch and a quarter long, 
obscurely three-lobed ; side lobes suberect, narrow at the 
base, dilated and optuse at the apex; front lobe elliptic, © 
convex, denticulate, reflexed and obtuse at the apex ; disc 
channelled; crest oblong, two-lobed at the apex and 
thickened at the margins. Column clavate, incurved, 
nearly three-quarters of an inch long, with narrow, auri- 
culate wings. Chin conical, obtuse, about a third of an 
inch long.—R. A. Rourr. 
Fig. 1, lip with one side lobe cut off; 2, column; 3 and 4, pollinarium, seen 
from front and back :—all enlarged. 
