Gardens, Kew. It flowered in: the Cattleya House in 
October, 1900; the flowers, which are odoriferous and 
aromatic, last about two months. 
- Descr.—Pseudobulbs obpyriform, two-leaved, three to 
five inches long, smooth. Leaves eight to ten inches long 
by one and a half inches broad, loriform, tip rounded, 
deeply channelled in the middle, coriaceous, sides convex, 
nerves obscure, costa beneath slender. Peduncle with 
sparingly branched panicle two feet long, slender, greenish 
speckled with red; branches spreading, few-flowered ; 
pedicels with ovary an inch and a quarter long, spreading, 
green ; bracts minute, triangular. lowers one and a half . 
to two inches broad. Sepals and petals widely spreading — 
_ and incurved, concave, fleshy, yellow streaked with red ; 
_ sepals linear-oblong; petals as long, orbicular, clawed. 
Ip one-third longer than the sepals, rather membranous, 
three-lobed,, claw sheathing the column; side-lobes sub- 
orbicular, spreading, crenate, white suffused with rose; 
~ midlobe much larger, broadly obcordate, sides deflexed, 
white with crimson streaks, coarsely and irregularly 
crenate; disk shortly ribbed. Column two-auricled at 
the top, auricles quadrate, projecting forward.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, front wa side views of the column; 3, anther; 4 ollinia :—all 
enlarged; 5, reduced view of whole plant. ee Saee nies 
