It flowered in August, producing three spikes like the one 
shown in plate 8234, and was, for an Fria, decidedly 
attractive. As cultivated in a tropical house, where it is 
planted in a pot filled with peat fibre and sphagnum, it has 
grown vigorously. Its behaviour at Kew suggests that it 
is likely to prove an easily managed and freely flowering 
species. 
Descriprion.—Herb, epiphytic. ‘Pseudobulbs clustered, 
oblong, sub-compressed, 2-4 in. long, 3-11 in. wide, clothed 
with membranous sheaths. Leaves 3-4, oblong-lancevlate 
or elongate, acute, erect or recurved, coriaceous, 6 in.—l fi : 
long, 3-1} in. wide. Scapes axillary or subterminal, short- 
peduncled, rather stout, 6-8 in. long; racemes curved, 
cylindric, dense-flowered, pubescent ; bracts elliptic-oblong, 
obtuse, subconcave, reflexed, 1-1 in. long; pedicels slender, 
sparingly pubescent, slightly longer than bra 
sparingly pubescent, whitish with a purple ec 
about 4 in. long, obtuse, posterior elliptic-c 
Figs. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, column and lip; 4, anther-cap: 5, pollinia :—all 
enlarged. : 
