they include plants of very different size and colour of flower, 

 and of no little variety of form of sepals, petals, and lip' 

 The specimen here figured vastly exceeds any of his varie- 

 ties in the size of the flower, and in its structure approaches 

 nearest to Lindley's figure of M. ciliata (Bot. Reg. t. 1206), 

 is, however, very green, and much smaller. 



-Desck. Pseudobulbs oblong, compressed, deep green, three 

 to five inches long, at length furrowed. Leaves two to three 

 at the apex of the pseudobulb, six to ten inches long, broadly 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plaited and ribbed, dark green. 

 Scapes about as long as the pseudobulb erect, two-flowered, 

 covered with loose sheathes. Flowers of var. grandiflora six 

 inches long from the tip of the upper to those of the two 

 lower sepals, nearly white, with a faint green hue. Sepals 

 narrow oblong, obtuse. Petals smaller, rather undulate. 

 Lip three-lobed, lateral lobes small, erect, middle much 

 larger, nearly orbicular, margin erose or fringed, appendix 

 adnate to its surface, and bifid at the apex.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip. 3. Pollen -.—all magnified. 



