X macrantlia, Benth. & Hook. f. (t. 4566), and A. pulcher- 

 rima, Benth. & Hook. f. = A. variegata, D. Don (t. 4303) ; 

 both under Thibaudia, 



Mr. Moore obtained his plant of A. Moorei in 1900, and 

 he cultivates it in a cool orchid house. 



Descr. — A handsome shrub, closely resembling the old 

 A. setigera, but very different in the structure of the 

 flowers. Caudex of the plant figured four inches in 

 diameter, and bearing three slender, stiff stems two and a 

 half feet high. Branches slender and stiff, glabrous or 

 soon glabrescent. Leaves alternately sub-verticillate, 

 and scattered, usually in fives at the tips of the annual 

 growths, shortly petiolate, thick, coriaceous, glabrous or 

 nearly so, oblong-lanceolate, two to three and a half inches 

 long, apiculate, rounded or somewhat cordate at the 

 base ; midrib thick ; veins inconspicuous. Flowers scarlet 

 or orange-red, about one and a half inch long, in short, 

 axillary or sub-terminal racemes. Racemes six- to nine- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves ; peduncles, pedicels and 

 calyx softly pubescent. Pedicels three to four lines long, 

 furnished at the base with small, acute bracts, which fall 

 away early. Calyx five to six lines long ; tube distinctly 

 produced above the ovary; lobes deltoid, sub-acute. 

 Corolla nearly cylindrical, about one and a quarter inch 

 long, five-lobed almost to the middle ; lobes narrow, acute, 

 revolute, yellow within, obscurely puberulous on the out- 

 side. Stamens ten, exserted, free from the corolla; 

 filaments free, flat, with a remarkable knee-like bend near 

 the base, longer than the anthers, slightly puberulous on 

 the back of the part attached to the anthers ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, slightly connate, and produced below the 

 attachment in the form of a spur; the upper slender, 

 tubular part free. Ovary spuriously ten-celled ; cells con- 

 taining many ovules; style glabrous, bent near the base 

 similarly to the stamens, slightly exceeding the latter, and 

 surrounded at the base by a small, ring-like disk. Capsule 

 unknown.— 4F. B. H. 



Fig. 1, long.tudmal section of an ovary with a portion of the calyx and 

 base of style; 2, three stamen,, showing the geniculate, glabrous filaments; 

 3 two i anthers, showing the basal spurs and the oblique, apical pores; 4, apex 

 ot style; 5, cross section of an ovary, showing that it is spuriously ten-celled : 

 — all en 'urged. J 



