collection. Its identity was unknown, but the plant was 
reported to have been received originally from Venezuela. 
This plant has been grown in a teak basket in a mixture 
of peat and sphagnum in a warm house along with S. 
undulata and other species of the genus, and has thriven 
well under this treatment. It was not, however, until. 
January, 1911, that the plant flowered for the first time at 
Kew. When it did flower it was found to possess all the 
features characteristic of the species which Prillieux had 
named S. Lueddemani. Like other Schomburgkias the 
plant requires a liberal allowance of direct sunshine, and 
after a season’s growth is completed should be kept, for a 
few weeks, dry at the roots. 
Descriprion.—Herb, epiphytic; rhizome stout, clothed 
with broad, ovate, somewhat imbricate sheaths ; pseudobulbs 
erect, fusiformly clavate, sulcate, narrowed to the base, 
clothed with distichous imbricate sheaths, 6-10 in, long, 
1-14 in. thick about the middle, often 2-leaved at the 
tip. Leaves arcuate, elongated oblong, somewhat obtuse, 
coriaceous, 8-14 in. long, 13-2 in. wide. Scapes erect, 
elongated, 13-2 ft. long, clothed with many lanceolate 
sheaths, many-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 
convolute, 13 in. long; pedicels 13 in. long. lowers of 
medium size, brown with purple lip and column, the crest. 
and anther yellow. Sepals spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
markedly undulate, 13-12 in. long. Petals like the sepals, 
Lip 3-lobed, adpressed to the face of the column, 2 in. long; 
lateral lobes narrow oblong, obtuse, suberect; mid lobe 
recurved, ovate-orbicular, apiculate, about + in. long, the 
edges incurved near the tip; disk 3-keeled. Column 
clavate, arcuate, 2 in. long ; anther with 2 short processes ; 
pollinia 8, superposed in pairs, laterally compressed, united 
by a granular laminar appendage. 
Fig. 1, lip; 2, column ; 3, anther-cap; 4, pollinia ; 5, sketsh of entire plant: 
—all enlarged except 5, which is much reduced. 
