sending out roots from near the insertion of the leaves. Leaves 
opposite, thick, fleshy, broadly lanceolate or slightly obovate, 
obscurely serrated, very dark green, acuminated, at the base at- 
tenuated into a thick footstalk about an inch long. Peduncles 
solitary or two together, from the axils of the leaves, slender, 
very long (six to twelve inches) and pendent, dark purple-red, 
villous, bearing a single large obliquely pendent flower. Calye 
large, woolly rather than villous: ¢wbe turbinate, very dark 
purple: /imé of five lanceolate, serrated, almost leafy, spreading 
segments. Corolla im shape resembling that of JV. longipes 
(Tab. 4018) or of WV. chloronema (Tab. 4080), but of a rich deep 
blood-colour and clothed with hoary purplish pubescence. Sta- 
mens and style as long as the tube. Ovary hairy with a large 
gland on one side. W. J. H. 
Curt. A native of the forests of Brazil, and agreeing in every 
respect as regards habit with what is said of A//oplectus at 
Tab. 4452. It may be either grown in a pot in turfy peat soil, 
or in a basket suspended from the roof of the house, in the way 
that many Orchids are grown. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynous gland. 
