a 
L. monophylla is a native of the mountains of Jamaica, 
where it was discovered by the late Dr. Bancroft upwards 
of half a century ago, and communicated to Sir W. Hooker. 
It has since been collected by Mr. Morris, Director of 
Gardens and Plantations, and by Mr. G. Syme, the Super- 
intendent of the Botanical Gardens in Jamaica, growing on 
trees at elevations of 3000 to 5000 feet above the sea. 
Living specimens communicated from those Gardens by 
Mr. Morris in 1881 flowered at Kew in October of the 
following year. 
Desor. Pseudo-bulbs none ; rhizomes forming a branched 
matted mass sending up tufts of leafing and flowering stems. 
Stem including the flowering scape six to ten inches high, 
as thick as a crow-quill, rigid, erect; basal part below the 
leaf one to two inches long, clothed with long tubular 
appressed sheaths speckled with pink. Leaf solitary, 
suberect, sessile, two to three inches long by one-half to 
two-thirds of an inch broad, narrowly linear-oblong, obtuse, 
coriaceous, midrib strong beneath, deep green above, paler 
beneath. Scape much longer than the leaf, slender, with 
two or three speckled sheaths one-half to one inch long, 
similar to those below the leaf, the uppermost enveloping 
the base of the ovary. Flowers suberect, one to two inches 
in diameter, vivid orange-scarlet all over, except the 
purple anther-cap. Sepals and petals similar, spreading, 
oblong, subacute. Lip very small, embracing the column, 
lateral lobes very narrow, rounded; terminal minute, 
spreading, rounded, papillose on the disk. Colwmn with 
the dorsal margin of the clinandrium crenulate.—J. D. H. 
_Fig. 1, Column and lip; 2, clinandrium; 3, anther-cap; 4 and 5, front and back 
view of pollinea :—ald enlarged. 
