Central American Nurseries, San Jose, Costa Rica. It 

 flowered in an " intermediate " house in September, 1893. 

 Descr. — Pseudobulbs an inch long, ovoid, obtusely angled, 

 dark green. Leaf nearly a foot long, by four inches broad, 

 elliptic-ovate, acute, about 9-nerved, narrowed into a 

 ribbed petiole, pale green. Peduncle about four inches 

 long, stout, strongly decurved, lower part dark red brown, 

 upper violet ; spathes three at the flexure, short, obtuse ; 

 bracts half as long as the ovary, oblong, inflated. Flowers 

 three inches across the petals, longer from the tip of the 

 dorsal sepal to that of the epichile. Sepals reddish- orange, 

 densely tesselate with rounded red-brown spots, obtuse, 

 dorsal elliptic, lateral ovate-oblong. Petals darker coloured 

 than the sepals, triangular-ovate, with a broad excised 

 notch in the inner margin, and there produced into an 

 acute horn. Lip with a white, narrow, fleshy hypochile, 

 barred towards the base with blood-red, and having on 

 each side, about the middle, a long erect incurved horn ; 

 epichile not half the length of the hypochile, broadly 

 hastately ovate, white mottled with violet purple ; tip 

 rounded, posterior angles produced into large white erect 

 incurved horns. Column golden-yellow, sprinkled with 

 re&.—J.D.H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, front and side views of column : 3 and 4, anther ; 5 and 6, 

 pollina :— All enlarged. 



