whence plants have been lately brought by Capt. Bispnam, 
with several other rarities, to the garden of my valued and 
often-mentioned friend, C. A. Parker, Esq., Liverpool. In_ 
his stove this species has come to a much higher degree of 
perfection than I have ever seen before. It there too varies 
considerably in the length and breadth of the bulb, and in 
its surface being more or less deeply wrinkled, inthe breadth 
of the leaves, and in the deeper or paler hue of the flowers. 
From the finest of them, drawn by Henry Sanppacu, Esq. 
aided by specimens sent by Mr. Parxer, the accompanying 
figure was made. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs, when fully formed, usually ellip- 
tical, much compressed, with a prominent line on each face 
and often wrinkled, bearing one or many leaves. Leaves 
linear-oblong, lanceolate, thick, coriaceous, nerveless, more 
or less keeled or complicate. Peduncles several on the 
same plant, at first nearly erect, with the flower-buds com- 
pletely distichous, so as to form a flattened spike, afterwards 
curved or drooping. Bracteas lanceolate, membranous, 
pale. Flowers sometimes twenty or more on a spike, con- 
stantly unilateral, of a deep rose colour. Sepals and petals 
erect. Upper sepal (as well as the petals) ovate, convex : 
two lower sepals combined into one, deeply carinated under 
the lip, gibbous at the base. Lip obovate-oblong, waved, 
emarginate, with two small lobes near the base which runs 
down into a kind of spur. Disk with a deeply furrowed 
tubercle : the colour of the lip is deeper than the rest of the 
flower, almost orange in the disk. Column rather short, 
cylindrical, pure white. Anther-case hemispherical, fixed 
to the back of the column. Pollen-masses two, pale co- 
loured, fixed to a filiform stalk, which has, at its base, an 
oblong gland. Germen clavate, red. 
Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower, 2. Lip, slightly magnified. 
