New Granada, along with other very similar species of the 
genus, collected up to an elevation of four to six thousand 
feet above the sea. It was first flowered at the celebrated 
orchid garden of Consul Schiller at Hamburgh, and later at 
Farnham Castle, from whence the specimen here figured was 
obtained. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs tufted, about three inches long, narrow, 
ovoid, compressed, grooved. Leaves with the slender petiole 
one and a half to two and a half inches long, elliptic-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, plaited, green. Scape from the base of the 
pseudobulb, stout, ascending, green, six- to ten-flowered ; 
sheaths few, short; bracts linear-oblong, green, deciduous ; 
pedicel and ovary three-quarters of an inch long. Flowers three 
and a half inches in diameter ; perianth spreading, cinnamon- 
brown, the leaflets within whole coloured from the tip to the 
midrib, tessellated from thence to the base. Sepals narrow- 
oblong, tips rounded. Pedals rather smaller, narrowed towards 
the base. vp shorter than the petals, jointed at the middle ; 
distal portion (epichyle) broadly hastate, with the broad blunt 
deeply channelled apex so recurved that the epichyle looks 
truncate, posterior angles produced into short recurved horns ; 
colour pale yellow, mottled with short transverse red-purple 
bars; hypochyle somewhat trapeziform, the sides produced 
backwards into long ascending spurs that are rather shorter 
than the column; disk of hypochyle yellow, blotched with 
red purple. Column yellow, blotched with brown on the 
back.—J. D, H. 
Fig. 1, Ovary column and lip; 2, pollen-masses :—both enlarged. 
