when, in April, 1894, the raceme here represented was 

 kindly sent by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bt. Mr. "Watson 

 informs me that it requires a very hot and damp stove. 



Descr. — Rhizome creeping and rooting, sending up tufts 

 of leaves, and compressed green, annulate pseudobulbs 

 four to six inches high, and one inch broad ; the transverse 

 scars at the nodes of which are brown, and bear a thin 

 bunch of brown, flexuous fibres, an inch long. Leaves 

 nearly two feet long, by one and a half broad, narrowly 

 lanceolate, gradually finely acuminate, plicate, with five or 

 more stout ribs beneath. Scape from the base of the 

 leafing pseudobulbs very stout, as thick at the base as a 

 goose- quill, and there decurved, furnished with short, ovate, 

 obtuse, brown, striated scale-like sheaths, pale red-brown, 

 as are the rachis of the raceme, bracts, pedicels, and ovaries. 

 Racemes many-fid. ; bracts two-thirds of an inch long, 

 spreading, ovate, acute ; peduncle stout, with the ovary 

 curved, and ascending from the drooping rachis. Flowers 

 suberect, one and a half inch in diameter, hemispheric. 

 Sepals orbicular, white within, suffused with rose across 

 the middle dorsally. Petals smaller than the sepals, 

 broadly obovate, white. Lip much smaller than the sepals, 

 white, with a golden disk, 3-lobed ; lateral lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, crenulate in front ; midlobe orbicular, eraarginate 

 or retuse, crenulate ; disk with a horse-shoe callus towards 

 the base, and 2 ridges between the lateral lobes, setose on 

 the mid-lobe. Column concave in front, tip contracted. 

 Anther small, gibbous, produced posteriorly into a short, 

 deflexed, obtuse beak ; pollinia 2, subglobose, sessile on a 

 broad transverse gland. — J.D.H. 



Fig. 1, Lip and column ; 2, lip with one lateral lobe removed ; 3/ column ; 

 4, anther; £, pollinia;:— All enlarged. 



