gascar, in which pseudobnlbs such as are described by 

 Dr. Kranzlin, as occurring in E. Peetersiana, are well de- 

 veloped. The flowering specimen of E. Peetersiana was 

 kindly sent for figuring in this Magazine, from Burford 

 Lodge, in the middle of April of the present year. The 

 reduced view of the whole plant, t. 7613, is adapted from 

 the Gardener's Chronicle, and a coloured sketch by Mr. 

 W. H. White. 



Descr. — Rootstock cylindric, creeping over rocks, one to 

 two inches in diameter, emitting at the nodes stout vermi- 

 form roots, and bearing stout pseudobulbs nearly a foot 

 long, clothed with leaf-remains ; internodes of rootstock 

 very short, clothed with withered scales. Leaves tufted, 

 three to five feet long, lanceolate, sub-acute, erect, many- 

 nerved. Scape erect from an ascending base, three feet 

 high, as thick as the little finger, green, bearing many 

 short, appressed, obtuse, sheathing scales, that are im- 

 bricating below and distant higher up. Raceme about a 

 foot long, erect, of many rather crowded flowers ; rhachis 

 stout, terete, green. Bracts about an inch long, oblong, 

 boat-shaped, tips rounded, grey. Pedicels with the ovaries 

 three inches long, rose-red. Flowers three and a half to 

 four inches in diameter. Sepals and petals subequal, 

 orbicular-oblong, concave, bright rose-purple with white 

 bases, petals rather smaller than the sepals. Lip shorter 

 than the petals ; side lobes broad, obtuse, erect and in- 

 curved, white, broadly edged with rose-purple ; mid-lobe 

 broadly transversely oblong, bilobulate, rose-purple, except 

 at the base, where it passes into the white of the disk of 

 the lip ; the latter has between the side lobes three broad, 

 erect, obtuse laniellas, then five slender golden ribs, which 

 extend to the base of the mid-lobe, where they end as 

 rather large, triangular, laterally compressed, golden 

 teeth.— J. D. H. 



Tab. 7612. Upper portion of leaf and raceme of E. Peetersiana, of the 

 natural size. 



JJw l m \ , JW ^ view of whoIe P lant ! Yl S- 1» lip 5 2, column and 

 anther ; J and 4, polhma : -All enlarged. 



