till a fine panicle appeared in the stove of the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden* in April, 1836, on a plant which that 
establishment derived from Mr. Locxuarr of Trinidad. 
The blossoms, of long duration, have considerable bright- 
ness of colour, and make a singular contrast with the harsh, 
thick, dark green, and almost spindle-shaped leaves. 
Descr. If the base of the leaves, which is more or less 
clothed with a ragged, sheathing membrane, be examined, 
it will be seen that each of them is jointed on to a small 
bulb, not much larger than a pea. The leaves are erect, 
terete, obscurely marked with lines, having a rather deep 
furrow in front, in the middle about as thick as one’s finger, 
tapering a little below, acuminated to a sharp point at the 
apex : the whole of a harsh and rigid texture, and of a dark 
green colour. From the base a spotted scape arises, about 
two feet in height, much branched and panicled upwards, 
many-flowered. Flowers rather small. Sepals spreading, 
nearly equal, narrow-obovate, waved, greenish-yellow, 
spotted with dull red. Lip patent, large, deeply three- 
lobed, bright yellow : two lateral lobes broadly obovate, 
red at the lower margin near the base ; middle lobe much 
the largest, kidney-shaped, with a notch at the apex: disk 
with a prominent crest with three distinct lobes or teeth, 
and some lesser ones, yellow, spotted with red. Column 
short: with a rounded wing on each side of the stigma. 
Anther hemispherical, yellow, blotched with red-brown. 
_* Since the above was printed, we learn that it is blossoming at this 
time in the Collection of CHaRLEs HorsFatt, Esq., Liverpool. 
Fig. 1, Column and Lip —magnified. 
