of tropical Orchidee, being a ready flowerer, and continu- 
ing long in blossom. Our figure was made at the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, in September, 1834. 
Descr. From the top of an oblong, compressed, dark- 
green bulb, sheathed at the base with three or four large 
brown scales, arise two oblong, coriaceous leaves. From 
the base of the same bulb, and subtended by a small leaf 
with a long, sheathing base, springs a flower-stalk, which, 
(including the spike,) measures eighteen inches long, and 
isdrooping. Flowers eight to ten, large. Sepals lanceolate, 
acuminate, the two lateral ones with excessively long, slen- 
der tails; all of them, as well as the two petals, (much 
shorter, and smaller in size than the sepals,) of a pale, 
greenish-yellow colour, marked with dark-brown spots. 
Lip oblong, yellowish, with a narrow acumen, at the base 
marked with red-brown spots, and bearing two oblong 
glands. Column short, pale green. Anther-case hemi- 
spherical, yellow. 
Fig. 1. Lip of the Corolla. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
