period above mentioned shown any disposition to blossom. 
Dr. Linpiey obliged us by naming it, or we should pro- 
bably have had a difficulty in determining it; the figure 
refered to in Piumier being in some respects, particularly 
in the bulb and foliage, considerably at variance with our 
specimen. It was originally discovered by Pxiumier, in 
Hispaniola, and Professor Linpixy has specimens from the 
same country, collected by Cuartes Macxenzir, Esq. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs a foot and a half, or two feet long, 
cylindrical, or slightly compressed, tapering at each ex- 
tremity, clothed with pale brown, faintly-striated, acumina- 
ted, sheathing scales, and crowned witha tuft of six to eight 
long, linear-lanceolate, much acuminated leaves. Scape 
arising from the base of the pseudo-bulb, erect, including 
the panicle, nearly three feet high: spotted, as are the 
branches, with purple. Bracteas oblong, lanceolate, ex- 
ceedingly large, spreading, membranous, yellow, the upper 
ones chiefly spotted. Flowers large, handsome. Petals and 
sepals oblong, wavy, yellow, the latter chiefly spotted with 
red-purple. Lip stipitate, jointed upon the decurrent base 
of the column, deeply three-lobed, yellow, two lateral lobes 
obovato-cuneate, incurved, with a broad red-purple margin ; 
intermediate one broadly obcordate, the margin granulated 
and dotted with purple, the disk at the base crested and dot- 
ted with purple. Column semiterete, singularly produced, 
at the base, between the two lower sepals, yellow-green. 
Anther-case almost nectariform, ta ering at the back. 
Pollen-masses two, oblongo-obovate, Ravin a deep furrow 
at the back, attached to a white, ovate gland. Germen 
long, slender, slightly clavate, spotted. pee 
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Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 
- : Me. Lip. “8.Col ae chet. «th 
Upper side of a Pollen- p olumn. 4. Anther-case. 3. 
mass. 6. Underside of ditto —magnified. 
aes A vigernck it 33 
