intendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Trinidad. The 
flowers remain fresh for about three days. . Plants of it 
have also been sent to the Royal Gardens from the Demerara 
River by Mr. Jenman, F.L.S., Superintendent of the 
Botanical Gardens of Georgetown, and Government 
Botanist. 
Descr.—Pseudobulbs five to six inches long, very narrow, 
deeply channelled, and with about eight stout, intervening, 
elevated ribs. Leaves a foot long, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, narrowed to both ends from about the middle. 
Pedunele stout, pendulous, two-flowered; pedicels sub- 
equal, six inches long, stout, grooved, embraced at the — 
base by an obtuse sheathing bract two inches long. 
Flowers up to six inches long-from the lip to the outer * 
margin of the lateral sepals. Sepals membranous, dorsal 
two inches long, oblong-lanceolate, twisted, flesh-coloured, 
speckled with red; lateral very large, four to five inches 
long by two inches broad, reflexed from the base and re- 
curved, lunate, the dorsal margin dilated below the middle | 
into a broad, rounded gibbous lobe, tip twisted, pale. Petals 
pendulous, two to two anda half inches long, undulate, and 
more or less twisted, dull pink, with a few red blotches 
towards the base. Lip clawed; claw an inch long, stout, 
terete, base with two parallel, white, oblong, obtuse, rather — 
recurved, projecting, white lamelle half an inch long; ~ 
hypochile globosely reniform, an inch and a halfin diameter, 
inflated, and claw closely streaked and spotted with orange- 
red ; epichile an orange-yellow bucket, spotted with blood- 
red; truncate and three-lobed anteriorly, narrowed at the 
base into a triangular fleshy neck, which is dorsally fur- 
nished with four or five, reflexed, fleshy transverse lamellz. 
Column very stout, greenish white, with a few red spots, 
dilated at the recurved top, which terminates in two short, 
obtuse horns, one on each side of the anther.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of the column with anthers; 2 and 3, pollinia :—AJl enlarged. 
