steady friend, and a munificent patron: and Botany and 
Horticulture in particular have seldom had a more devoted 
admirer, The Tribes of Plants, which, as is well known, 
have been especially cultivated and fostered by His Grace, 
are the Grasses, the Willows, the Heaths, the Pines, the 
Orchidee, and, above all, the Cactee ; in nearly the whole 
of these families the Woburn Collection has stood unri- 
valled. May his name long be perpetuated among the 
votaries of that Science which he so much delighted to 
honour in the present new and remarkable species of Cara- 
SETUM: a species indeed so distinct, that it can hardly be 
assimilated with any other yet known to us. It was sent by 
Mr. Skinner from Guatemala in 1838. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulb large, elliptical, greyish - green, 
transversely marked with rings, the traces of fallen leaves. 
Leaves, in our specimen, arising from the young and smaller 
bulb, about six, the lower ones small and almost abortive ; 
the larger ones about a foot long, broadly lanceolate, acute, 
_Many-nerved, tapering at the base, membranaceous. Ra- 
_ ceme ample, of numerous large, crowded, pale greenish- 
white flowers. Sepals and petals nearly uniform, but slight- 
ly spreading, concave, striated, ovate, acute. Lap large, 
very much inflated and below projecting forward (like the 
lip of our Cypripepium Calceolus), of a thin, membranaceous 
texture, almost transparent, striated with darker green :— 
the orifice is contrac 
tracted, the margin much projecting for- 
ward and spreading, thin, almost white, waved and fimbri- 
ated: on the disk is a somewhat three-lobed, conspicuous, 
membranous crest, the lobes acute and a little toothed ; 
the middle one the longest. Column shorter than the 
perianth, broader and winged upwards, the apex, or clinan- 
drium, acute (not acuminated), beneath which, in a hollow, 
the anther-case is situated - this is roundish, with a long, 
barrow acumen. Pollen-masses two, ovate, cleft, waxy, 
deep yellow, attached to a very broad elastic stalk, which 
itself is situated upon a large, viscid gland. 
Fig. 1. Lip and Column. 2U . : ; 
arias: 4. 5. Su % pper portion of the Column: front view. 3. 
t perior and inferior view of the Pollen-masses, with 
their Stalk and Gland: all more or less magnified, ; 
