sheathing bases, or short peduncles, the flowers appear, erect, 
solitary, with a very long terete ovary, resembling a continuation 
of the peduncles. Sepais all uniform, spreading, oblong, sharply 
acuminate, pale yellow-green, blotched or mottled with brown. ~ 
Lip large, white, with flesh-coloured spots, obovate, cucullate, 
waved or repand at the margin, downy within, having an oblong 
callous swelling at the base, three-toothed at the apex. Column 
semiterete. Anther-case hemispherical. W. J. H. 
Curr. This Orchid requires to be kept in the tropical Orchid- 
house. It is strictly epiphytal, and the appearance of newly- 
imported plants leads us to suppose that it grows in rather 
exposed and dry situations. At the Royal Gardens it grows on 
a suspended block of wood, and has flowered. The wood should 
be slightly inclined, in order to favour the pendulous habit of the 
plant. J. 8. | 
Fig. 1. Column and stamen. 2. Lip :—magnified. 
