at least two months. The two lowest of the racemes have 
regular sepals and petals, and a perfect column, but no lip. - 
The species is said to be also a native of the Philippine 
Islands. 
Descr.—Pseudobulbs six to eight inches long, terete, 
stout, ovoid or fusiform, compressed, dark green. Leaves 
twelve to eighteen inches long, oblanceolate-oblong, ob- 
tuse, midrib beneath very stout, nerves slender. Raceme 
with the peduncle three to four feet long, spreading and 
nodding, or pendulous, shortly peduncled, laxly very many- 
flowered; rachis as thick as a goose-quill, terete, green, 
speckled with darker green; bracts small, about half an 
inch long, ovate-lanceolate, white, at length pale brown; 
_ pedicel white, with the short ovary two and a half inches 
long, as thick asacrow-quill. Perianth three inches broad. 
Sepals and petals similar, obovate-oblong, spreading, undu- 
late, tip rounded, yellow green, covered with very large 
red-brown blotches of irregular outline. Lip very much 
smaller than the sepals, three-lobed ; disk undulate, yellow 
with five purple nerves, more or less hairy all over; side 
lobes broad, rounded, incurved; terminal lobe oblong. 
Column incurved, with a deep pit in front of the base, and 
a lobed callus below it on each side. Anther orbicular, 
sides lobulate, pubescent. Pollen subglobose; strap very 
_ short; gland large, cordate.—J. D. H. 
et Portion = ae Ps column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia:—All 
