superfluous to discuss its beauty, to which Mr. Fitch has | 
done no more than justice in the plate. Its resemblance to 
a Miltoma in flower is. very striking, and it adds another 
instance to the many existing of the difficulty there is in 
fixing the generic limits of epiphytic Orchids. The form of 
the sepals and labellum and their relative sizes vary exceed- 
ingly, and are very dissimilar from those figured in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle (1873, fig. 123), also from Messrs. 
Veitch’s Orchid houses. 
Descr. Pseudobulbs one and a half to two and a half inches 
long, narrow-oblong, compressed. Leaves six to twelve inches 
long, by one to one and a half inches broad, narrowly elliptic- 
lanceolate from a narrower sheathing base, acute, keeled, 
deep green above, paler beneath. Scapes several, some- 
times six from one pseudobulb, very slender, longer 
than the leaves, sheaths small, distant, appressed. Hacemes 
3-4-flowered ; flowers on slender pedicels, bracts a quarter of 
an inch long. Flowers much the largest of the genus, very 
variable in size, the largest four inches long; perianth quite 
flat. Sepals subequal, obovate-oblong or obovate-cuneate, 
subacute or truncate, flat, rather recurved, very pale rose- 
coloured. Petals larger or smaller than the sepals, and of 
the same shape, but usually more acute, of a deep rose-colour, 
with a broad white margin. Lip quite flat, of one large, 
almost rounded 2-lobed limb, contracted into a claw at the 
base, and produced there into two ovate acute ascending 
bracts ; there is a small 2-lobed callus at the very base of the 
claw, close to the column, and three small ones at its distal 
end ; the lip is white, suffused with deep rose-colour on the 
disk of each half, and pale yellow streaked with red on the 
claw. Column very short indeed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Base of lip and column :—magnified. 
