which really came from New Grenada. The true H. 
variegatum, which has green flowers with dark spots, has a 
very wide distribution from Brazil and Peru to Cuba, if 
indeed all the plants included by Lindley under this name 
are really conspecific. : 
Mr. Hart’s note above referred to is important ; he finds 
that the lip exerts a pressure on the underside of the 
column whilst the anther is held in its place by the horns 
of the latter. The pollinia during enlargement within the 
anther-case distend laterally inwards, and thus come into 
contact with the stigma. If the lip is displaced it returns 
to its position in contact with the column, with so strong 
a spring that none but a very large insect could effect this.. 
No flower had failed to be fertilized, the anther always 
remaining attached to the column. 
For the identification of the Jamaican plant with H. 
spondiadum, a native of Costa Rica, where it was discovered 
by Warszewicz growing on trees of Spondias, lam indebted 
to Mr. Rolfe and Mr. Morris, who made a very careful 
examination of its flowers with a solitary one of Reichen- 
bach’s type of Hi. spondiadum which is contained in Lindley’s 
Herbarium. ‘Complete specimens of the latter, with leave. 
and pseudobulbs, may reveal differences, but there is 
nothing in Reichenbach’s description that indicates any. 
The plant here figured was brought from Jamaica by 
Mr. Morris in 1891, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in 
February of last year.—J. D. H. ; 
Fig. 1, Back of column and base of lip; 2, front of column and anther 
3, anther case viewed from within :—all enlarged. 
