predecessor, Dr. Lindley, the Gardener's Chronicle has done 

 more to extend a knowledge of the Orchidese than any other 

 periodical. 



Descr. — Tall, very robust. Leaves six to nine inches 

 long, by one and a half broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 tessellate above with dark and very pale green, very pale 

 beneath. Scape stout, a foot to a foot and a half high, 

 very dark red purple, hirsute with dark, spreading hairs, 

 one to two-fid. Bracts an inch and a half long, cymbiform, 

 herbaceous, erect, dark green, dorsally hirsute on the keel 

 and towards the base. Flower three inches across the 

 petals, segments of perianth of a very thick texture. 

 Dorsal sepal erect, orbicular, two inches broad, pale 

 yellowish within, streaked with green from the base to 

 three-fourths of its breadth, dorsally with hairy ribs. 

 Petals spreading, linear-oblong, three-quarters of an inch 

 broad, tip rounded, dull purplish brown, green, and 

 marked with minute purple warts towards the base. Lip 

 a large, inflated sac, of a dull red-purple colour, yellowish 

 towards the somewhat dilated truncate mouth, inflected 

 margins dotted. Staminode small, greenish, orbicular in 

 outline, horse-shoe-shaped, with the incurved cusps acute, 

 upper margin bifid. Ovary nearly three inches long, 

 narrow, erect, ribs hispid with purple hairs.—/. D. II. 



Fig. 1, Staminal column : — Enlarged. 



