the female, form the section Myanthus. This, of course, 
includes both Randii and Garneitianum. 
The drawing of the male plant here reproduced, was 
made from a specimen sent by E. S. Rand, Esq., of Para, 
to whom the Royal Gardens are also indebted for (. 
Lemosit, Rolfe, figured at Tab. 7444, It arrived in 1894, 
and flowered in a stove in March, 1895, Figure 5, represent- 
ing a female flower, was drawn from a specimen preserved 
in alcohol, also sent by Mr. Rand. The precise habitat of 
both is the Upper Amazons, above Manaos. ee 
Descr.—Marz prant. Pseudobulbs about four inches 
long, oblong, obtuse, compressed, sulcate. Scape four to 
five inches long, ascending, stout, with four to five short 
tubular obtuse sheaths. Raceme many-fid., inclined, 
flowers rather crowded, about two and a half inches broad. 
Bracts lanceolate, lower half an inch long; pedicels with 
Ovary spreading, about twice as long as the bracts. 
Sepals spreading, lanceolate, acute, with incurved margins, 
rather flexuous, pale apple-green, with small transverse, 
purple-brown spots. Petals like the sepals, erect, with 
recurved tips. Lip not half as long as the sepals, three- 
lobed ; lateral lobes short, broad, deeply fimbriate, with a 
large erect lamellate and fimbriate crest on the disk of 
the lip between them; mid-lobe longer than the lateral, 
dilated and fimbriate on each side towards its base, then 
linear, truncate and crenate at the tip, base with a large 
dorsal rounded knob, disk towards the base with a brush of 
long fleshy filaments. Column stout, terete, speckled with 
purple, beaked at the tip; antennz deflexed, and a little 
incurved. Anther long-beaked. Pollinia obovoid, caudicle 
jinear ; gland orbicular.—Fem. piant; flower subglobose ; 
sepals and petals linear-oblong, revolute ; lip posticous, 
pitcher-shaped ; column very short and stout, cuspidate.— 
J.D), H, 
Fig. 1, Lip; 2, column of male; 3 and 4, pollinia; 5, fem. flower :—AIl 
but fig. 5 enlarged. 
