It seems to have been first cultivated in Prussia, and isa 
native of Brazil. Our plant flowered in the stove of the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden in J uly, 1836. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulb oblong, striated, somewhat com- 
pressed : sheathed below with large scales, above by the 
bases of five to six rather large, lanceolate leaves, which 
are a foot or more long and striated. Scape a foot high, 
arising from the base of a pseudo-bulb, and bearing; in our 
specimen, a short raceme of five, large, drooping, subglo- 
bose flowers. Sepals and petals nearly equal, roundish, 
oval, very concave, pale greenish, obscurely spotted, 
closely imbricated above and at the sides of the lip. Lip 
very large, singularly thick and fleshy, remarkably cucul- 
late at the base, the mouth expanding and ending in a de- 
flexed, truncated, or slightly two-lobed apex, the outside is ~ 
pale dull green, faintly striated, within deeply tinged with 
yellow, striated with green, the sides elegantly dotted with 
rich brown. Column completely enclosed in the cucullate 
base of the lip, green, semicylindrical, with two purplish 
set, which rest on the inside of the lip. Anther depressed, 
acuminated, as is the top of the column. 
Fig. 1. Section of the Lip, including the Column. 2, Pollen-masses: 
magnified. 
